Alex Bell, Author . Gollancz $14.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-57508-465-0
British university student Bell's impressive debut is a mature literary theological mystery with a satisfyingly twisty thriller conclusion. Waking up covered in blood and missing his memories, Gabriel Antaeus learns his name from the lease on...
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Alex Bell. Headline (IPG, dist.), $11.95 trade paper (344p) ISBN 978-0-7553-5518-1
Bell evokes Peter Pan in this merry madcap tale of law student and cat burglar Lex Trent. At age 17, Lex is a talented cheat with Lady Luck on his side... usually. The amoral scammer is forced to join forces with upright lawyer Montgomery Schmidt,...
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Alex Bell, illus. by Tomislav Tomić. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0646-9
Twelve-year-old Stella faces several challenges: her white skin and hair set her apart from the black, brown, and pink people who populate her community, and the Polar Bear Explorer’s Club, which she desperately wants to join, does not allow female...
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Alex Bell. Oneworld, $9.99 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-861-54598-8
The late Henry “Pops” Harper’s Odditorium sticks out among the rose gardens in the sedate British village of Roseville. Only Pops’s plucky 11-year-old granddaughter Bess, who reads as white, appreciates the strange house and its quirky contents,...
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