Michael Cadnum, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-038628-8
When a teenage girl disappears, her family goes into crisis. ""Fans of intense psychological dramas can expect to be emotionally drained by the time they reach the last chapter,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 12-up. (Aug.)r
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Children's Books $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-89908-1
Michael Cadnum follows up The Book of the Lion, which PW called a ""majestic novel"" in a starred review, with The Leopard Sword. Hubert and Edmund, fresh from the Crusades, take on a covert challenge while sailing home to England.
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Books $15.99 (168p) ISBN 978-0-670-88377-6
Readers will likely be both fascinated and repelled by the intricate web of deception woven by the 16-year-old narrator of this sometimes confusing psychological drama. Cadnum (Heat) shows rather than tells Jennifer's desperate need for affection...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Books $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-87886-4
Cadnum's latest may not have as much heart-pounding action as some of his previous thrillers (Zero at the Bone; Taking It), but there is plenty of tension. As the story opens, narrator Bonnie Chamberlain, a diver, has just regained consciousness...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Children's Books $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-87335-7
The first few chapters of this sober, ambitious novel seem oddly disconnected: the narrator, Zachary Madison, incites a news-making brawl, finds an abandoned gun, describes the theft of his car and flashes back to his impulsive decision to quit high
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Michael Cadnum, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0239-8
Cadnum (Skyscraper) rings an original variation on the vampire theme with this haunting evocation of the sensual world lost beneath the routines of daily life. Narrator Richard Stirling is a youngish lawyer with a comfortable Bay Area practice and a
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Michael Cadnum, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $19.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-88184-930-1
The author of Ghostwright and Saint Peter's Wolf here offers an intriguing, if lightweight modern version of the Faust legend. Architect and designer Stratton Fields, scion of a prominent old San Francisco family, worries about his stalled career...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0048-6
A good old-fashioned thriller about a succesful artist troubled by a character from his past. (Dec.)
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Michael Cadnum, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0135-3
The conflict between fame and genius is the subject of this ambitious novel, which starts out slowly but builds to a gripping finish even as it completes Cadnum's transition from occult (Saint Peter's Wolf) to mundane terrors. World-famous painter...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $19.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-88184-728-4
A pair of silver fangs with a long and frightening provenance serves as the catalyst for one man's transformation to a werewolf in this gripping tale. San Francisco psychologist and art collector Benjamin Byrd first comes across the fangs when he...
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Michael Cadnum, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-312-03897-7
Although billed as horror/science fiction, poet Cadnum's (Foreign Springs) first novel is neither, nor is it effective psychodrama. Programmed to expect that something unreal and horrible will happen, the reader never feels the frisson of fear...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88184-801-4
``Someone can't come back from the dead.'' Hamilton Speke, world-renowned playwright and protagonist of this compelling, lyrically written thriller, is sure of it. But what is he to make of the mysterious reappearance of his old drinking chum and...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Children's Books $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-86725-7
After spending seven chapters articulating the conflicts and relationships of high-school senior Cray Buchanan, Cadman (Taking It; Breaking the Fall) zaps readers with a sudden crisis: the inexplicable disappearance of Cray's older sister, Anita....
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Michael Cadnum, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-037570-1
In a starred review, PW said, ""Cadnum keeps readers on the edge of their seats with this taut psychological portrait"" of a teenage kleptomaniac. Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Children's Books $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-86130-9
Cadnum (Calling Home; Breaking the Fall) keeps readers on the edge of their seats with this taut psychological portrait. What begins as a department store prank-fooling floorwalkers and detectives by pretending to shoplift-spins out of control when...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Children's Books $15 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-84687-0
This chilling novel focuses upon Stanley, a high school junior who attempts to cope with the confusion and chaos pervading his life. At home, his parents' marriage is breaking up; at school, he cannot concentrate; in both places, he feels anxious...
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Michael Cadnum, Author Viking Children's Books $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-83566-9
Limpid prose and an imaginative use of metaphor make this problem novel stretch beyond just another entry in the genre. Underachieving, drinking, and at odds with his single parent, Peter hides a terrible secret: his best friend Mead is dead, and it
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Michael Cadnum, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-39911-5
Money is the main motivator in Cadnum's (Peril on the Sea) uneven crime drama. Siblings Bruce and Milton Borchard are looking to better their fortunes through bank robbery, while neighbor Nina Atwood's college plans are in jeopardy due to her father'
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Michael Cadnum, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (133p) ISBN 978-0-439-54535-8
Continuing his retelling of tales from Ovid, Cadnum (Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun
) once again breathes life into classic mythological figures. In this novel, highly accessible to middle-schoolers, he introduces the hero Orpheus,...
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Michael Cadnum, Author . Tachyon $14.95 (181p) ISBN 978-1-892391-33-9
Concise writing cuts to the heart of the matter in this droll collection from National Book Award–finalist Cadnum (The Book of the Lion
), whether it be a certain gingerbread boy's overbearing parents in the title story or a ghostly...
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Michael Cadnum, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.95 (124p) ISBN 978-0-439-54533-4
Cadnum (In a Dark Wood
) once again displays his expertise as a storyteller as he refashions sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses
into a trilogy of enchanting tales. In this first of three volumes planned, he relates the story of 15-year-old...
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Michael Cadnum, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $17.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-439-35224-6
Although readers will enjoy the sensation of being swept to another time and place in this thrill-a-minute historical drama, they may have trouble staying on course as Cadnum (In a Dark Wood; The Book of the Lion) leads them through ancient Nordic...
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Michael Cadnum, Author . Puffin $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-230034-3
Edmund, a squire, awaits the joint punishment for his master's counterfeiting charges and escapes his fate when a knight asks him to join the Crusades. In a starred review, PW
wrote, "The message about the romance vs. reality of war proves...
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Michael Cadnum, Author, Lisa Moore, Editor Puffin Books $6.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-131087-9
""Readers will likely be both fascinated and repelled by the intricate web of deception woven by the 16-year-old narrator of this psychological drama,"" said PW. Ages 14-up. (Jan.)n
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Michael Cadnum, Author, Cadnum, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-531-30334-4
In this swashbuckling, often violent adventure set in the eighth century, Cadnum (In a Dark Wood) shows how a clash of cultures profoundly affects two distant enemies: a young Viking warrior and a monk's apprentice. At age 17, Lidsmod is eager...
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Michael Cadnum, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator, Lou Fancher, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-84884-3
Respecting the anxiety that accompanies a move, Cadnum's (Taking It) introspective debut picture book pulls few punches. As movers haul away furniture, the narrator tries to picture his family's new house, but although he has seen it months earlier,
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Michael Cadnum, Author, D. Brodie, Editor Viking Children's Books $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-88775-0
This psychological portrait of an amateur boxer contains as many dark ironies as Cadnum's earlier thrillers (Heat; Edge), but the narrative here is marred by thick foreshadowing and uneven pacing. Narrator Steven lays out his vulnerabilities right...
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