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Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six. They were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power—he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance—by killing them.To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parker, and the two set out to capture the killer before he begins his most public lesson yet—a deadly message for the entire city to witness.

Forced to move into an ancient Victorian home a good distance away from her friends and the modern life she once lived and loved, nine-year-old Allie Finkle must learn to deal with the unhappy transition, the creepiness of her new room, and the reality that she is now “the new girl” at school.

Miserable because his only friend moved away and he has once again caused his baseball team to lose a game, fifth-grader Willy Ryan’s life suddenly becomes a lot more interesting when he finds Dodger, a furry, blue chimpanzee that only he can see.

Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.

A latest entry in the best-selling series that includes Sizzlin’ Sixteen and Finger Lickin’ Fifteen finds bounty hunter Stephanie Plum leaning on her network of friends and supporters, including Grandma Mazur and mentor Ranger, when an assignment brings more trouble than anticipated.

In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she’s never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she’s decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and seek out Lila, even if it means she has to upset the world of Lila’s adoptive mother…her very own sister, Luz.

William P. Young (Paul) was born a Canadian and along with three younger siblings was raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea (West Papua). The family returned to Canada where his father pastured a number of churches for various denominations. By the time he entered Canadian Bible College, Paul had attended a dozen schools. He completed his undergraduate degree in religion at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon.

When a Catholic priest is fatally poisoned during a funeral mass, NYPD Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas pursues an uneasy investigation involving a hidden religious medal, underlined Bible passages, and clues suggesting that the victim was not who he appeared to be.

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.