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Set in a quiet 1950s American suburb, two orphaned sisters, Meg and Susan, are held captive in their aunt’s basement as her deteriorating mental health begins to poison their family and the surrounding community.

An eleven-year-old boy’s corpse is found in a park, and all evidence points to Flint City’s beloved coach, Terry Maitland. A detective’s quick arrest leads to a tense investigation where DNA, alibis, and hidden truths collide.

Eleven-year-old Rebekah arrives at Plymouth Colony in 1621. Struggling with food shortages, inadequate shelter, sickness, and bleak hopes, her family faces a harsh winter until an unexpected visitor offers hope.

Twelve‑year‑old Maria Schmidt in 1914 Minneapolis battles wartime prejudice and finds empowerment in the women’s suffrage movement, learning that one voice can influence social change.

The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956. Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker (The Secret Life), Herman Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent Van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky and G. I. Gurdjieff - Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him.

Eleven‑year‑old Ellie Dingman takes the helm of her family in 1963 New York after her flamboyant mother leaves to chase an acting dream, while confronting school prejudice and neighborhood misfits.

Yoko, a young Japanese American girl, pretends she can’t read because she fears her mother will discover her ability and no one will read her a bedtime story.

A retired CIA operative turned security chief in a powerful oil company finds himself drawn into a dangerous drug‑trafficking plot, while his secretive ex‑wife and her mysterious child add layers of intrigue and romance.

Once she'd slipped inside his heart, could he ever again be alone? Susannah Moran was only doing her job when she switched the dice at the Manitou Lodge Casino -- but when ruggedly handsome Joe Bond grabbed her wrist, she'd never been caught so fast... nor by a man who set off alarms all over her body! Joe didn't know what scam the distracting redhead was pulling, but he wanted her anyway -- wanted to kiss her mouth, run his fingers through her beautiful hair, and possess the temptress who was everything he couldn't have. He let her go, never expecting to see her again, but when Susannah was hired to go over the Indian council's books, she saw her destiny in his deep blue eyes. Joe wanted her pale fire, her warmth -- and he wanted not to want her at all. Both knew about not fitting in -- she the army brat who'd never had a true home, he the man of honor torn between two cultures. Once Joe had called her his ninimoshe, his sweetheart. Could Susannah persuade him that their hearts and souls were joined, that their love could bridge two worlds?