Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home.

"Sherry Smiles will now be my name at my new school. Mom and I must still hide from our pursuers. Now, it will be more difficult to catch us as Mom, too, has changed her name. I stumble along the asphalt and gravel roads towards the main road. It is dark and I am frightened. The air is fresh, cold and the darkness is all encompassing. I find the main road and wait for the public bus to my 6th grade class in Kettering, Ohio. The cold and dark are oppressive....

When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.

"It's Mechs vs. Kaiju in this hard-hitting, action sci-fi adventure! Kaiju hit hard. Family hits harder. Just when you break free... you get pulled back in. Trying to keep your family from imploding is a tall order. Titan-rider Kit Hobbs is about to find out it's an even taller order when that family has been piloting the Titan that protects New Hyperion from the monstrous kaiju for generations. With an addicted, spiraling brother, a powder keg of...

The author describes his early life, growing up in a dysfunctional family, and how he ended up becoming a CIA case officer.

Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."

"Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 ____ Street, or as his brothers rechristened it "One Dirty Tree." This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his first home and the site of formative experiences. Growing up in a big, poor, Mormon family--surrounded by comic-books, eight siblings, bathtubs full of dirty dishes--Noah's childhood exerts a powerful force on his present day relationships. Drawn in his inimitable style, written with...

Four teenagers relate their experiences as they try to cope with problems in school and at home by smoking, drinking, using drugs, and running track.

As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.