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Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life.

Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Reza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot.

A man known as Hubert, Etc. finds he has no place in society except among the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on those taking the morning commute.

In search of a new home for her family, Sue Glassman's father in law, Sy, purchases a home for them in Rockaway, Queens. But he's moving in with them. And the house is a haunted.

A husband and wife try to outrun long-buried secrets, sending their lives spiraling into chaos.

The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.

Betrayed by those she trusted, Lili decides she's put her career first for too long.

On the wagon road toward the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill-crazy gang of cutthroats.

John Henry Cole and his posse of bounty hunters get the tables turned on them when seemingly cornered fugitives are actually setting up an ambush.

Driven by curiosity about her small Carribean island, Myrna secretly excavates the ruins of a former slave plantation.

Natalie DeAngelo lost everything when her two sons were killed in a school shooting. For relief from her loss, she volunteers as a veterinarian on an elephant sanctuary in Thailand.

Retired sergeant Thaddeus McCallum teams up with Pedro Peralta to rescue a friend from the clutches of the notorious rebel Pancho Villa.

Though young, he'd built a far-reaching bad reputation. Denver knew him as the Doctor; Texans called him Montana; Idahoans called him Texas.

Montalbano investigates the death of wealthy accountant Cosimo Barletta in a case involving a string of mistresses, family secrets, and a history full of extortion, greed, and corruption.

The South Carolina backcountry is no place for a young girl to grow up in the 1760s, but sixteen-year-old Emily Stewart wouldn't have it any other way.