With hilarious true stories and observations, this laugh-out-loud celebration joyfully explores the sweet and wild side of boyhood.

Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

Discusses the psychological case of the “mirage man”—a relationship built on attraction instead of compatibility—as a growing issue in American marriages, and provides tips for healing a mirage relationship.

When murder strikes a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands, and the body of a teenage girl turns up in the winter snow, Inspector Jimmy Perez launches an investigation into the killing that takes him into the heart of sinister secrets from the past.

After his hard-drinking poacher father becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a local cop, Mike Bowditch, with the help of a retired pilot, journeys deep into the Maine wilderness to find his fugitive kin—and the real killer.

After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother’s mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

A modern retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

Having disregarded the father who moved away after getting her teenage mom pregnant, 16-year-old Josie struggles with mixed feelings when her father returns, complicating Josie’s reluctance to trust her new boyfriend.

Two psychologists analyze the sources of compulsive hoarding behaviors, presenting case studies of sufferers who have rendered their homes virtually unlivable, and outlines typical ineffective treatments and the impact of the disorder on families.

A former advertising executive relates how, after losing his high-paying job and developing a brain tumor, he took a job at Starbucks under a young African-American manager, whose positive character helped him heal and understand the value of respecting others.

In early 1970s Riggold, Georgia, Catherine Grace Cline, the daughter of the local Baptist preacher, dreams of escaping her small town for Atlanta, but after her dream becomes reality, a tragedy transforms her perspective.

After their best friend Ross dies, Blake, Kenny, and Sim takes his ashes to Ross, Scotland, as a memorial, on an adventure-filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means.

Seventy-five-year-old grandmother Ellie Jerome is sent on an adventure of unexpected twists and turns, when, after a birthday wish to be 29 again, she gets her wish for a single day.

Presents a collection of twelve original tales featuring supernatural beings going on vacation, including an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story.

A sequence of tales chronicling the early 20th-century lives of New Brunswick sisters Idella and Avis Hillock includes “Gone,” an account of their mother’s heartbreaking childbirth crisis and the Pushcart Prize-nominated “Wake,” in which they attend their wild father’s funeral.

Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.

Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.

In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man.

Lieutenant Waino Mellas and his fellow Marines venture into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and fight their way into manhood, confronting external obstacles as well as racial tension, competing ambitions, and underhanded officers.

Experiencing recurring visions of a romance from a past life that ended tragically, dressmaker Haven leaves the home of her tyrannical grandmother to start over in New York, where she falls in love with a man who is under suspicion for murder and who Haven finds both familiar and threatening.

Dexter and Emma try to maintain the connection they shared on the eve of their college graduation with letters or meetings every year on the day they met, but conflicting personalities, careers, and misconceptions hinder their efforts.

The Luckett family, pioneers from Pennsylvania, face the hardships and unknown perils of America’s forest wilderness during their journey westward.

Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.

Describes how the author outwardly embraced self-effacing aspects of hip-hop culture that radically contrasted with his book-loving father’s academic prep service and endless pursuit of knowledge, revealing how the father-son bond eventually overcame the genre’s rebellious messages.