Ariel Rankin seeks to locate and save her unknown father-a man deeply scarred by his secret and brutal role in the history of his country In the sequel to Bradford Morrow's heralded Trinity Fields,young New Yorker Ariel Rankin learns that her birth father is not the man who raised her but rather a soldier named Kip Calder who disappeared into the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Hoping to preserve her otherwise happy life, she pushes the revelation...

Oliver, a young vampire, discovers that he is a little more human than his vampire family and classmates.

"As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old Oliva Denaro dares to challenge convention, ignoring the taunts of peers, her mother’s scolds, and her own changing body. Spirited and carefree, she loves to run until her lungs burst: to feel the strength of her lithe limbs, to relish the freedom she cherishes, to honor the friends forced by propriety to conform. Though...

"This astonishing, devastating debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. Ayosa is a wandering spirit- joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who...

After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, Chris has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right thing, but old habits and instincts rise to the surface,...

Jessica, young professional, is running very late for her flight to the Virgin Islands, where her best friend is getting married, when she literally runs into her former boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, and misses her flight; Marcus has spent the last three years getting his life together, but he is still drawn to Jessica, who certainly has not forgotten him--and the next eighteen hours will change both their lives.

While people are celebrating Yankee Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak and worrying about being drawn into World War II, fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe is dealing with his abusive father's death and his cantankerous grandfather who lives with them. Consumed by unanswered questions surrounding his father's death, Junior begrudgingly makes friends with a boy named Catfish, who promises to help him find some answers. But the road they take comes with trouble....

Saba leads a group of guerrillas against DeMalo and the Tonton, all while contemplating DeMalo's invitation to join him in building a New Eden.

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the...

Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been one of the few black girls at an exclusive women's librarl arts college near Philadelphia. As Genna reconstructs the months, weeks, and hours leading up to Minette's tragic death, she is also forced to confront her own identity within the social framework of the time.