Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Mattie Rigsbee is a strong-minded senior citizen. When delinquent Wesley Benfield drops into her life, he is an even less likely companion than her stray dog.
Nathan Cooper is an expert scout and tracker. Arriving home one afternoon, he is shocked to find his wife, niece and her betrothed violently murdered. Swearing revenge, Cooper sets off on a quest to track down the killers--and heaven help them when his righteous anger delivers them to their maker.
In the fourth book in the saga of those left behind, the Tribulation Force, comprised of pilot Rayford Steele, his daughter Chloe, and reporter Buck Williams, continues its adventures after the Rapture.
While catering a cosmetics company luncheon, Goldy, an amateur sleuth, witnesses the hit and run death of a young sales associate. Presents a collection of fine gourmet recipes.
After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
Nora Bondurant is divorced--unfathomable for a woman in 1933--and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would rather help her acquire a new husband than reveal the secrets surrounding her aunt's death.
Freddy the pig must summon all of his courage and detective skills when the chief suspect of a series of robberies on the Bean farm is a legendary beast from the Big Woods.
Jackson Crain is a widowed county judge living in a quiet Texas town with his quirky 13-year-old daughter. When his deceased wife's sister is found dead, all signs point to her husband, who's rumored to be sleeping around. But Crain turns up a surprising suspect--the attractive woman who just moved into town.
