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When feline PI Joe Grey and his companion Dulcie have kittens, a little calico is born with ancient markings. But the celebrations will have to wait. A murderer is on the loose in Molena Point--and neither young nor old is safe until the culprit is found.

Compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday.

Chicago, 1954. When his father goes missing, twenty-two-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him. On his journey he encounters both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of a Lovecraft story.

Haunted by his mother's disappearance, Delvin Walker rides the rails, falls in love, and sees an America sliding into the Great Depression. But as he is pushed deeper into the darkness of imprisonment after being falsely charged with rape, his resolve to escape burns only more brightly.

The Navy in 1942–1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey appoints a wild card named Harmon Wolf, an American Indian, as a destroyer commander. What happens next will change Wolf's life forever.

In the summer of 1977, eleven-year-old Mira enters the high-stakes world of New York City ballet, a fiercely competitive world of struggle, obsession, passion for beauty--and something sinister that will challenge her, protect her, and ultimately take her innocence.

When Justine Dancer is looking for a fairy to audition for a part, Faybelle Thorn, daughter of the legendary Dark Fairy, is not interested--until she finds out the role is that of a wicked fairy queen. It's the role Faybelle was born to play, and there's no way she's going to let some other fairy play it!

The outbreak has spread, and the implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a mindless mob. Sal and her family must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy everything humanity has built.

Millie Cross knows what it's like to burn for someone. She was young and wild, and he was fierce and even wilder. Twenty years later, Millie's chance run-in with her old flame sparks a desire she just can't ignore. And this time, she won't let him ride off.

Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender. They are desperate to cope, but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.