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A female NBA executive for the Golden State Warriors pursues the biggest free agent of her career while managing a messy divorce and a complicated relationship with a younger colleague and his teenage sister.
Set against San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, the crisis claims the life of Alysia Abbot's father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist.
Twin teenage sisters are the descendants of dragons. When their mother learns that their pride has a dark plan for the girls, she sends the twins to live a normal life with humans.
Set in the 1830s, Sir Harry Paget Flashman is an antihero who often runs from danger but usually winds up being acclaimed as a hero.
"Flowers for Algernon" follows the story of Charlie, a mentally handicapped man who is the first human test subject in an experimental surgery that artificially increases intelligence. After seeing his IQ go from 68 to 185 following the surgery, Charlie loses the ability to socialize normally and becomes alienated from those around him. As Charlie begins to learn the truth behind the effects of the surgery — as seen through the reaction of a mouse test subject named Algernon — he is struck with the weight of how this procedure may ruin is life.
Story centers on a married couple who decide to adopt after their own son is killed. Until one day a boy, who may or may not be their own unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep.
Set in present day and revolves around a scientist who explores and experiments with the creation of human life.
A thriller with comedic elements.
A young, shallow Manhattanite named Reality Nirvana Tuttle is charged with guarding the door at a trendy club in 1980s New York, allowing in the flashily dressed but turning away more classically elegant types like Jackie Onassis.
A man's Thanksgiving at his parents' house becomes a lot more dysfunctional when rival assassins crash the dinner, forcing him to take his family on a cross-country adventure in their station wagon.
Switters, the protagonist, is an errand boy for the CIA, a secret lover of Broadway show tunes and a pedophile. On assignment in Peru (he has been ordered to verify the philosophical commitment of a new CIA recruit), Switters encounters a Kandakandero medicine man who gives him mind-altering drugs and wisdom, but in exchange inflicts a curse: if Switters's feet ever touch the ground, he will be struck dead instantly. So Switters spends the rest of the novel in a wheelchair, although this in no way slows him down. He returns to Seattle, chases after his 16-yearold stepsister and numerous art students, then embarks on a mission to Syria to sell gas masks to Kurds; there, he beds a nun who even so remains a virgin.
Story centers on a group of lottery winners who are vacationing on the International Space Station but when it is damaged, the vacation becomes a nightmare, trapping the tourists alone in a crippled module with no astronauts to help them.
Lieutenant Harry Colebourn buys an orphaned bear cub for $20 in Ontario as he is about to leave for duty in Europe during World War I. Colebourn nicknames the cub “Winnie” after his hometown of Winnipeg and takes her to Europe, where she becomes the unofficial mascot of a regiment in England. While Coleburn serves in France, he keeps Winnie at the London Zoo and eventually donates her to the zoo. The bear serves as inspiration for A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh character since his son, Christopher Robin Milne, has named his teddy bear after the bear who he often sees at the zoo.
A lonely rat in a Boston bookstore in the 1960s, learns to read devouring books, and looks for the friendship from both the nebbish bookstore owner and a solitary sci-fi writer.
The doctors at Memorial Medical Center, a hospital in New Orleans, are overwhelmed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. The staff is forced to make calculated decisions on which patients to save. Some of those who are not expected to make it are shot up with morphine and left to die. An attempt to prosecute a doctor and two nurses for homicide after an investigation show elevated levels of morphine and other drugs in 23 patients who died at the hospital. Of those, 20 are ruled homicides.
A socially prominent and successful businessman creates a super-human original creation Deucalion in modern-day New Orleans. A pair of street-smart detectives encounter Deucalion while investigating a murder, which leads them to a bizarre array of "engineered" humans.
Fairytale and folk characters ranging from Snow White and Cinderella to the Big Bad Wolf and Little Boy Blue are kicked out of their world and now live in a secret pocket of New York City.
Caroline Ellis reaches 16, a birthday that triggers the battle fated for centuries between the Dark and Light Fae, forcing her to confront who she is and discover whether her tumultuous relationship with Devilyn Reilly, who’s battling the power of the Dark within him, will destroy them both along with humanity.
About a 16-year-old who, after discovering her mother is missing, meets up with her father, a super spy who didn't realize he had a daughter. The father and daughter embark in a mission to save the mother, stopping a Caribbean crime lord in the process.