Christopher Swann

Years after his struggling parents are murdered in a house invasion, a successful teacher struggles to keep a deathbed promise to care for his brilliant but troubled sister, before false accusations trigger a reckoning with the past.

How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate--and to become the man he is meant to be In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's...

Features 24 traditional Christmas carols enhanced by a rich profusion of paintings, prints, decorative and entertaining illustrations from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Based on the historical peasants revolt that occurred in Sicily during the French occupation of the island. Includes the rarely seen third act Ballet of the four seasons.