Various Readers

High school seniors Maddy and Owen must rely on their love when an evil creature, who has murdered before, kidnaps Maddy's mother and takes her to his cave.

"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, a school field trip to a heritage farm turns dangerous when an escaped convict appears on the scene."--

On a class field trip to a cursed bog, three best friends discover a gateway between the living and the dead.

One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa Hall's Speak, and as visionary as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,...

"Jared works as a dentist in small-town Michigan. His life is totally normal, except for one thing. He is a bot engineered with human DNA to look and act like a real person. One day at a screening of a classic movie, Jared feels a strange sensation around his eyes. Everyone knows that bots can't feel emotions, but as the theater lights come on, Jared is almost certain he's crying. Confused, he decides to watch more old movies to figure out what's...

"Jason's parents have just been hired to work at a historic lighthouse along the California coast. The lighthouse is built along steep cliffs, surrounded by fog, far from the nearest town...and cursed"--

Leads readers through the story of the 1962 Alcatraz Escape and posits what may have happened to the escapees.

In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason's name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin's most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West -- a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power. Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel...

Water patrolman Derek Finley struggles to keep from going under when he finds himself torn between his wife Kim, who has recently returned to work, and his mother Miranda, who is taking care of her ten-year-old grandchildren and offering unsoliticed advice on everything from parenting to decorating.

"Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried - once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through, Gail's desire for a child overwhelms her. Carli is a pregnant teenager from a blue-collar town nearby, with dreams of going to college and getting out of her mother's home. When she makes the gut-wrenching...