While her husband, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into Ellis' father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.

Little Bear drives his mother to distraction while waiting for his father to come home from a fishing trip.

When a Masai father in Africa answers his son's questions, the boy learns that his father's love for him is unconditional.

When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.

True story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Overview: From the masterful New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Child and Down River, comes this tour de force of murder and the dark ripples it sends through a man, his family and community. Jackson Workman Pickens-known to most as Work-mindlessly holds together his life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife, and a fragile sister, Jean, damaged...

While his life seems perfectly good as it is, Cardell, a young coyote, learns to tolerate--and even like--the coyote that is courting his mother.

The divorce of Oliver and Sarah after eighteen years of marriage becomes the catalyst that compels three generations to explore their lives, loves, goals, and expectations.

A mobster has one night to decide between his loyalty to his estranged son or to a mobster who is his lifelong friend.

John Quincy Archibald takes his son to the emergency room when the boy suffers heart failure. Since his insurance won't cover the transplant, John takes the emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the surgery.