Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.

After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.

Chatting with a nervous stranger sitting at a local bar, Timothy Carrier soon realizes that he has been mistaken for a killer-for-hire and has been given an envelope full of cash and a contract on a pretty young woman whose photograph and address accompany the money.

After a brutal ambush and an unexpected betrayal, Atticus Kodiak discovers that he has been falsely identified as one of The Ten, a short list of the world's most wanted assassins, and must transform himself into the killer he is supposed to be in order to survive.

Johnny Butler was just four years old when his Lenni Lenape "father," Cuyloga, spoke the words that siphoned out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. Now the Yengwes, the white soldiers, were taking him back to his "true" home. Inside of him hate and anger spread like poisons.

Samantha Sweeting, 29, is about to achieve partnership in a high-powered London law firm when she commits a ghastly, and costly, professional mistake. Fleeing her office, she takes the first train available, lands in the countryside, and is mistaken for the new housekeeper of a vast manorhouse. Too afraid to return to London, Samantha is about to learn what life in the lower wokring classes is like.

"In the second book in the Books of Beginning Trilogy, Michael and Emma must track down the Chronicle of Life, while Kate must find a way back to present day from the year 1899"-- Provided by publisher.

The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.

Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.