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Evie and Kass Shao's father claimed their brother Jakob was abducted by aliens. Fifteen years later, Jakob returns speaking of an intergalactic war.

It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope.

For fifteen years, the Echota family has been grieving their son.

Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, at forty-five Dalva has lived a life of adventures.

When Antonio is diagnosed with epilepsy at eighteen, he and his absentee father travel to Marseille to visit a doctor who may hold the hope for an effective treatment and connect for the first time

Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted juggling multiple jobs but still wants to provide a stable home for her family.

Louie and Dahlia Moscatelli chose to be foster parents, but to boys only. Then their lives are irrevocably changed when a six-year-old indigenous girl comes to live with them.

Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge.

Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all. But really, it's her husband who does. So when their marriage is over, she's on the brink of losing everything.

After being reunited with her identical twin, Anna wants to believe that life with her new-found sister will be perfect.

A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west.

Reena refuses to marry anyone who works for her father. She won't be attracted to Nadim's sweet charm or gorgeous lopsided smile.

Rival stepsisters put aside their differences for their common younger sister.

When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School.

"A tender ensemble novel about coming home to oneself and one's family through the beauty and soulfulness of Earth, even in an age of unravelling. Brothers Justin and Oliver have never been close.