After an alien invasion relocates all humans to Florida, a girl teams up with a renegade alien to find her abducted mother and save Earth from another threat, all while writing about her journey for a school essay.
A woman vanishes from a crowded NYC ferry, and Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates, grappling with an impossible disappearance and tension with her husband, Roarke.
Julius Caesar chronicles his relentless military campaigns and strategic brilliance as he subjugates the diverse tribes of Gaul, forever altering the course of Roman history.
In a future where humanity is lost to virtual reality, an epileptic teenager named Spaz goes on a journey with an old storyteller to save his sister and bring back human intelligence.
On his deathbed, a powerful Mexican magnate confronts the spectral kaleidoscope of his ruthless rise, reliving revolutionary battles and betrayals that forged his empire and scarred his soul.
A male prostitute with a buried past and a charming facade finds his life, impending FBI career, and engagement shattered by a murder, a mangy cat, and a stranger who sees through his lies.
In 1920s Brooklyn, a struggling writer begins a turbulent affair with a dance hall girl, entering a world of passion, artistic ambition, and self-discovery in the bohemian underworld.
Truman Capote's collection explores a Midwestern murderer, the beauty of Marilyn Monroe, and the humor of a New York cleaning lady, all written with his distinctive prose.
A park ranger seeking solitude on a remote island finds herself caught in a deadly mystery that connects the fort's Civil War prison past with a present-day murder.
A shy, mixed-race gay teen becomes the drag artist The Black Flamingo, finding his voice and community in a celebration of self-acceptance and self-expression.
A celebrated playwright's quiet suburban life is upended and enriched by the two-decade residency of an eccentric, pungent woman living in a van in his driveway, blurring the lines between neighborly obligation and an unwitting muse.
In 19th-century Italy, a revolutionary believed dead returns years later as a cynical, sharp-tongued satirist, only to find himself entangled in the political and personal betrayals that shaped his dramatic rebirth.
Annie Dillard's memoir explores a 1950s Pittsburgh childhood, where snowball fights with adults and microscopic explorations of pond life spark a lifelong sense of wonder.
A mortal man and an immortal elf defy the greatest darkness and an impossible paternal decree, risking all to steal a Silmaril from Morgoth, in a love story that shaped the legends of Middle-earth.
When a new family's red kayak overturns in the Chesapeake Bay, teenage Brady uncovers a dark truth that forces him to choose between loyalty to his friends and the devastating consequences of their secret.
A notorious prankster, exiled to a cow-obsessed town, meets his match in a rival trickster, sparking an escalating war of wits that ultimately unites them for the biggest prank Yawnee Valley has ever seen.
At Percy Academy, a privileged school, a girl with inner struggles and a boy facing racial isolation find love in secret, only for it to end tragically.
A dying woman with a thirst for life and a race-car driver who tempts fate forge a fleeting, passionate romance across Europe, only to discover that love can be the most dangerous gamble of all.
