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Edward and his family have escaped the heat and violence of inner-city Philadelphia every summer for the last 5 years.

Off the beaten path, concealed behind the weather-worn clapboard walls of decaying farm houses, desperate folk struggle and strive. These are their stories.

Instead of accepting a teaching position at the university, Tres is finishing up his apprenticeship for a private investigator's license.

A plane headed from New York to Tel Aviv is forced to crash land at a small airport, and five survivors are given shelter in a nearby home.

Investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, journalist Carl Streator finds the same anthology of poems and rhymes at each child's bedside.

Simmons interviewed 300 girls and dozens of grown women to reveal the hidden culture of aggression in girls while destroying the myth that the "gentler" gender is all sugar and spice.

In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks call Amazons.

Dr. St. Amand, a renowned endocrinologist at UCLC School of Medicine, has developed a remarkable treatment for a painful disease that affects millions of people.

In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.

When two professors are killed in quick succession at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tres is asked to finish teaching the semester's literature classes.

The definitive history of 20th-century naval combat.

Two brothers, Muir and Moody are as different as night and day and are always at odds. Muir searches for fulfillment with the church while Moody battles inner demons.

Young Lionel, minstrel in the outlaw band of Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin, tries to find his courage when she is abducted from Sherwood Forest.

When P.C. and Mackenzie are invited to join Mac's dad on a business trip in Monaco, they are thrilled.

At the annual Harvest Festival in Colleton County, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, a body is found stomped to death and choked with a mouthful of quarters.