Michael Grant, Author . HarperTeen $17.99 (590p) ISBN 978-0-06-144906-2
In the sequel to 2008's Gone
, things have only gotten worse for the kids trapped in the small area around Perdido Beach, Calif. After three months, they still have no contact with the outside world, more dangerous mutant animals are cropping...
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Michael Grant, HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-183366-3
Grant, author of the Gone series, takes a comedic turn, launching the middle-grade Magnificent 12 series about a boy with multiple phobias forced to help save the world. After saving the life of the school's toughest bully, 12-year-old Mack, who...
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Michael Grant, Author Gale Cengage $27.5 (391p) ISBN 978-0-684-18536-1
In the mystery religion of Eleusis, a colony of Athens, cult members acted out the rape of Persephone in torchlit ceremonies, while worshippers shouted obscenities and huge models of genitals were displayed to assure the fertility of crops....
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Michael Grant, Author Scribner Book Company $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19520-9
Constantine I founded Constantinople on the site of Byzantium and converted the Roman Empire to Christianity, yet this first Christian emperor ``would hardly be recognized as Christian at all today,'' asserts renowned classicist Grant in a...
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Michael Grant, Author Scribner Book Company $22.5 (212p) ISBN 978-0-684-19354-0
This is a concise, sober, readable assessment of as much of the historical Peter as can be sifted from the New Testament sources. While Grant amply illustrates how deeply problematic the sources are as history, he nevertheless argues convincingly...
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Michael Grant, Author Collier Books $14.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-02-032781-3
The author, a classical historian, explores the primitive roots of an influential civilization in this wide-ranging survey of the ``archaic'' period (750-480 B.C.) of Greece--then some 700 scattered city-states, each bent on achieving self-sufficienc
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Michael Grant, Author Scribner Book Company $27.5 (337p) ISBN 978-0-684-19126-3
Grant blows the dust off our time-worn images of the classical Greeks. He comments on the playwright Euripides: ``His characters have become all too familiar to modern psychologists.'' And on Herodotus: ``Viewed as a writer, not as a historian, he...
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Michael Grant, Author Scribner Book Company $27.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-19303-8
Grant, author of two dozen books on Greece and Rome, attempts to show how the two cultures were ``inextricably intermingled.'' Instead of documenting this in systematic fashion, he presents a synthesis and update of his previous writings, recast on...
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Michael Grant, Author Doubleday Books $20 (359p) ISBN 978-0-385-41967-3
Twenty-three-year NYPD veteran Grant is being billed by his publisher as ``the police novelist of the '90s,'' the logical successor to Joseph Wambaugh and William Caunitz. But while it is clear that the author of this competent if uninvolving first...
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Michael Grant. Egmont USA, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-60684-312-3
In Grant's (the Gone novels) launch of a SF spy series, when Sadie McClure's father and brother are killed in a gruesome plane crash, she is pulled into the titular secret organization her father ran, fighting a war on the nanotechnological level to
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Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58351-4
Eleventh-grader Evening Spiker (E.V. or Eve for short) has grown up with the wealth and privilege that go with being the only child of Terra Spiker, the stereotypically icy and no-nonsense CEO of Spiker Biopharmaceuticals. When Eve's leg is severed...
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Michael Grant. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-220740-1
First in a planned series, Grant's (the Gone books) uneven paranormal story transcends time and space to address the consequences of bullying, violence, and moral cowardice. Teenage Mara wakes up with amnesia in a place set outside of reality; she...
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Michael Grant. HarperCollins/Tegen, $18.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-234215-7
In this skillfully imagined alternate history, Grant (the Messenger of Fear series) envisions a 1940 lawsuit that leads to the draft and the right to enlist being extended to women. He then follows three teenagers who enlist after Pearl Harbor...
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Michael Grant. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8835-8
Forty-something David Mitre, the narrator of prolific YA author Grant’s first adult novel, an action-packed thriller, has been on the run for 19 years after jumping bail, “with half of that time spent expanding my criminal repertoire beyond burglary
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Michael Grant. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8904-1
David Mitre, the narrator of Grant’s amusing sequel to 2018’s A Sudden Death in Cyprus, describes himself as “a (retired) thief and grifter, and currently an author. If that seems an unlikely collection of occupations, consider that a grifter is by...
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