Dragon RiderFiredrake, a young dragon, receives a frightening warning one night: Humans are planning to destroy the valley in which he lives! All the dragons must flee. Their only refuge is a place above the clouds called the Rim of Heaven which may not even exist. Firedrake boldly volunteers to go ahead first. As he embarks on his journey, he meets Ben, a runaway boy. Together, the boy and dragon make their way toward the Rim of Heaven, all the while running a

her freedom to her treacherous uncle

friendship and political loyalties are tested to the limit

and where the easy rhetoric of Good and Evil

and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic

Estimated to extend for more than three hundred miles

Beautifully written and cleverly plotted

A wonderfully chilling story of grief

She never comes back

is an unwelcome complication

when Sigurdís finds a US phone number in the safe

Michael Collins takes post 9/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity

nearly a century later