A Leader In the Chalet SchoolJacynth Lambert, niece of Gay Lambert, arrives at the Chalet School with her older sister Anne. Jacynth, who prefers to be known as Jack, is generally popular, although one member of her form takes an instant dislike to her. Jack enjoys the outdoor activities of the Chalet school, although she is frustrated by the winter blizzards. This leads to several practical jokes, and Jack soon finds herself in trouble with the staff and prefects. Len Maynard is

To mark the thousandth year of peace in the Empire of Concordia

obsessive player of online video games

Led by the formidable Captain Alexandra

He also meets Houghton's partner

But before his arrival there was an equally mysterious disappearance

its author is an arrogant but brilliant homosexual whose life has crossed with that of Darwin with startling regularity

Once a promising musician

Meret is imprisoned but is saved from certain death to play the cello in the camp orchestra

The year is 1471

He realizes that the key lies at the Well of Songs -- a place from which no one has ever returned

is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov

Sam Turner has always had a romantic yearning to be Sam Spade