For eight of her sixteen years Carolina Mitchell's older sister Hannah has been a nun in a convent, almost completely out of touch with her family--so when she suddenly abandons her vocation and comes home, nobody knows quite how to handle the situation, or guesses what explosive secrets she is hiding.

Elizabeth Bennet's peaceful life in the English countryside is ruined when the dead suddenly become reanimated, and as she and her sisters are trained to defend themselves, two men compete for Elizabeth's heart, the powerful warrior who trains the Bennets to kill and the man who hopes to solve the "dreadful" problem with science.

Examines the land, people, history, politics, and culture of Japan and discusses its state of affairs and place in the world today.

"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect...

A high school girl faces pressure from her older brother, who is also her guardian, when she and her peers peacefully protest a teacher who they believe has stopped doing her job.

Three New York high school students try to sort out their emotions as they deal with relationships, crushes, their families, and planning for the future.

College student Claire Danvers discovers that an extreme sport pitting vampire against vampire--and sometimes vampire against human--is being broadcast on the internet from Morganville, Texas.