Armed with a spectral clock and a legacy of death, a young boy must brave a crumbling, ghost-haunted town to find his missing mortician father and embrace his own destiny as an Undertaker of the dead.
From schoolyard bully to trafficking victim, Char's harrowing journey reveals the brutal underworld preying on vulnerable teens, testing her resilience and capacity for compassion in a fight for freedom.
Norbert Elias shows how the state's power monopoly in Western Europe changed personal manners and individual minds, shaping the 'civilized' self from the late Middle Ages onward.
A determined sixteen-year-old runaway embarks on a cross-country bus journey to find the reclusive Harper Lee, hoping the author holds the key to understanding the mother she never knew and the tattered copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' that connects them.
After intercepting an email, Julian and his friends must outwit his greedy uncle's company to save ancient California redwoods using clever stunts and unwavering determination.
Young lovers disappear and reappear as mutilated bodies in Richmond. Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta races to connect present horrors to a past killer before the President's daughter becomes the next victim.
After miraculously rising from the tomb, a disillusioned Christ embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, embracing the pagan life-force and finding redemption not in divinity, but in the arms of an Isis priestess.
In the sweltering heat of Florida, attorney Matthew Hope finds himself entangled in the brutal murder of a mother and her two daughters, forced to defend a man who confesses to the heinous crime despite having no discernible motive.
When a school explosion forces a mother to choose between saving her bullied daughter or the bully, her heroic act turns her into a pariah, forcing her to unravel a devastating truth to reclaim her family and reputation.
Through the fragmented view of a World War I soldier, David Jones connects the muddy trenches to ancient battlefields of Roman Britain and Arthurian legend, exploring myth and memory.
A young genius's self-proclaimed madness begins when a brief glimpse of a woman by the sea shatters his boyhood innocence, forcing him into a tragic and early adulthood.
A ballerina's relentless pursuit of perfection for the dual role of the White and Black Swan blurs the line between reality and a terrifying descent into madness.
In the shadow of the Great Depression, a twelve-year-old Italian immigrant boy must forsake his studies to lay bricks and become the man of his family after his father is tragically crucified in the collapse of a New York City construction site.
When a desperate bargain with a sentient artifact brings a friend back from the brink of death, a young thief and his crew must embark on a perilous underwater quest for legendary swords to cure a creeping magical corruption before it consumes his soul and unravels the very mystery of the Eye itself.
In a war-torn land of shapeshifters and soul-stealers, an outcast with a shadowed past must accept her terrifying heritage and an unlikely alliance to face a tyrannical king and uncover a truth that could save or destroy her world.
Through the self-important letters of a talented but unperceptive baseball pitcher, Ring Lardner writes a lasting and sharp satire on ego, ambition, and the human inability to learn from mistakes.
Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl discovers the most dangerous jungle isn't in National Geographic, but within the opulent, savage society of Vlyvalle, New Jersey, where he and his mother must battle for their survival.
Armed with a blog and a strong desire for a mustache, seventh-grader Tad chronicles his hilariously disastrous attempts to navigate school, girls, and the perilous world of dog-nacho consumption.
A sheltered teen's escape into rock-climbing and romance in national parks turns terrifying when her new boyfriend becomes the target of an arrest warrant, forcing her to choose between her heart and her safety.
In 1960s Lagos, Jagua Nana, an older woman with a strong personality, deals with a life of pleasure, shady politics, and personal drama, making her own way in a city of hustlers.
A career woman haunted by her past finds an unexpected connection with a charming man who believes in fate, as their lives repeatedly intertwine, showing that sometimes, the most powerful force is simply the need for each other's touch.
Asthma, an overflowing snake tank, a drum-playing dream, and a teacher out to get him turn Jordan's middle school year into a hilariously chaotic gauntlet of mishaps and self-discovery.
