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Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandmother who raised her.

Special Agent Jeremy Waller is on the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team. The job is a thrill, but Agent Waller's own sense of right and wrong clashes with the world of danger and corruption surrounding him.

With invitations to high-profile baby showers and benefits, more Marc Jacobs clothes than is decent, and a department store heiress for a best friend, our heroine known only as Moi is living at the peak of New York society. But what is Moi to do when her engagement falls apart?

Seventeen-year-old Kevin Adams' best friend is the first polio victim of Fort Appleby. In just a few short months, Kevin's adolescence is stripped away and he must confront decisions he is not prepared to make.

With his gang of murderous thugs, Stirman pursues Erainya, the boss of college professor turned P.I. Tres Navarre. Erainya's husband Fred helped put Stirman behind bars, and although Fred is dead, Stirman wants his revenge. Now only Tres can stop him.

High-powered corporate attorney Val Covington uses a million-dollar windfall to open her own legal practice and fight for the causes she believes in. Joining her is her assistant Kendra, who believes her former lover is wrongly sentenced to death. Val tackles the case with help from her new landlord, talented by troubled investigator Rob Smith. As they race against the clock to save a man's life, Val and Rob must also confront their escalating attraction.

A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.

After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime--but he doesn't dare tell anyone.

In the near future, superheroes are very real. But so are supervillains. When San Francisco is toasted during a superbeing clash, America has had enough. All metanormals must leave the country--or face extermination at the hands of an elite new law enforcement branch.

An author who writes about his conversion to Islam has a fatwa declared against him, and a doorman at a restaurant decides he wants to carry it out. Also, the author's former lover, a waitress there, thinks her aunt has a manuscript proving the existence of God. And the restaurant owner wants more money so he concocts a totally fictitious Internet company and launches a wildly successful IPO.