When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one...

"Torn between two men, Kailey Crane is faced with an impossible choice: embrace the bright future she has with her new fiance, or dedicate herself to reclaiming a past love that may be gone forever. Set amidst the Seattle music scene of the 90s as well asthe present day, Always parallels the past and present in a unique love story about a woman who discovers what she's willing to save and what she will sacrifice"--

During the summer after her sophomore year, Deanna Lambert tries to come to terms with the reputation with which she was slapped in the eighth grade when she was caught by her father in the backseat of a car with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best friend, Jason.

Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

The tale of a gifted teenager who finds that mastering high school is much easier than mastering her heart. Mayfair Cummings is young, beautiful, and brilliant. But her intelligence makes her the outcast of both the private school she attends and the broken family she hopes to salvage. When she catches the eye of both a popular senior and her handsome English teacher, not even her brilliant mind can help her navigate the explosive new relationships...

"On her sixteenth birthday, Solange Drake will fulfill her destiny. With her seven older brothers' protection, Solange and her family will finally assume their rightful place as rulers of all vampires throughout the land. But when bounty hunters and rival clans challenge the Drakes' ascent to power, their home of Violet Hill becomes increasingly dangerous--and as Solange is seduced by the enemy, and her brother Nicholas fights feelings for Solange's...

Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre describe in their own voices their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.

When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.

Four sisters--Rose, Daisy, Laurel, and Lily--deal with their relationships with each other as well as boyfriends while trying to figure out their futures, cope with loss, and make difficult decisions.