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Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she's dying, but she still has a lot of living left to do.

In this searing look into the world of a Muslim family in the wake of 9/11, a child of immigrants forges a blurry identity, falls in love, and finds hope, all in the midst of a modern war.

Seventeen-year-old Valeria is one of the only survivors of the freeze, a dark magic hold Knnot Mountain unleashed on her village.

1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait.

Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness.

Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don't think she's cool enough.

There's a big problem with the forest roses, magical roses that are very important because they are the first food for newborn hippogriffs.

Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City.

Maeve loves her job at a senior care center. Gage, who works with Maeve's brother-in-law, loves Maeve with all his heart.

A gorilla with a deadly secret. A leopard struck by tragedy. A gazelle cast out of her herd.

After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help.

As SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer prepares to celebrate her daughter's birthday, she learns of a theory that connects the dots on a constellation of killings.

On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists it's worthless.

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable, except as a decent stopover for ships traveling throughout the Galactic Commons.

When a scandalous murder shocks London high society, seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seizes the opportunity to prove herself, despite the interference of Mr.