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Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends.

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together in a special friendship.

Anton Walker used to forge documents for a living, but now he's playing it straight as a manager with a consulting firm. Problem is, the Harvard diploma on his wall is fake, and his cousin plans to blow the whistle if he doesn't help her with one last job.

When a costumed sniper kills the Mardi Gras Rex parade's King of the Carnival--prominent Chancey St. Amant--Skip Langdon investigates the web of tangled clues and ancient secrets that culminate in danger for her and doom for the St. Amants.

Lilia Albert can't remember many details from her childhood--she just knows she was always on the move. As an adult, she travels compulsively, leaving behind friends and lovers all over the world. But when one man refuses to let go and follows her to Montreal, Lilia is forced to come to grips with a past filled with more questions than answers.

Three young women have been brutally murdered. After 10 years on the New York City police force, Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better than to become emotionally involved with her work. But the prime suspect is a suave, sophisticated Irish billionaire with a mysterious past and she finds herself powerless to resist his charm.

In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings.

The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.

The life of the Revere family and the doings of the Sons of Liberty as told from the point of view of Paul Revere's horse.