Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee, an action only Grace seems to realize will have serious repercussions.

Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling, In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as does all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the...

After the death of her husband, Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt, where she falls in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baoudi, an Egyptian nationalist.

Contains a collection of short stories that revisit characters from other novels in the Lancaster County book series, including, "The Shunning," "The Postcard," and "Grasshopper Level."

Freya Hannen arrives in Egypt to attend the funeral of her sister Alex, a Saharan explorer, and joins with English academic Flin Brodie to look into the circumstances of Alex's death, which leads them into a dangerous quest involving a lost oasis that is said to hold the fabled Benben, an iconic stone with extraordinary powers.

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, having survived the Fae War but upset over the loss of loved ones and still recovering from the torture she endured, realizes the doors to Faery were closed before some fae were able to leave the human world and they are holding her responsible, while her relationship with vampire Eric Northman is scrutinized by the vampire king and she is drawn into a dangerous debate through her connection to one particular...

Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.

Art restorer and former spy Gabriel Allon is called upon by the head of Israeli intelligence to stop a Palestinian plot to kill Yasir Arafat, ending peace talks in the Middle East--a plot run by the man responsible for the deaths of Gabriel's wife and child.

Seventeen-year-old Laurel returns to her grandparents' home in Ireland, where she encounters "the roly-poly man," a cluricaun who sets Laurel on a quest to free her twin sister, thought to be dead, to live with her lover in the legendary world of Faerie.