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The Sandcastle Empire

Set in 2049 when the Earth is at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation, a radical faction known as the Wolfpack overthrows the government and takes control.

Anatomy Of A Miracle

A war vet returns from battle to his hometown a paraplegic. Until one day he just literally stands up. No one knows how. The town thinks he's a Messiah and he soon has news media and the Vatican on his doorstep.

Frankie Machine

A Mafia hit man gives up the "game" to become the owner of a bait shop. When he finds out that he's been targeted for a hit, he gets back in the business.

Aru Shah and the End of...

Aru Shah, a twelve-year old girl of Indian descent, lives in an annex of the Museum of Ancient Indian Arts and Culture and is known to lie to her classmates at a rich Atlanta private day school to get them to view her traditional wardrobe as something exotic and not freaky.

That Others May Live

U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant and pararescueman August O’Niell is injured in the line of duty and makes the decision to amputate his left leg above the knee so he has a better chance of returning to service.

Borne

A young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined, dangerous city of the near future. The city is littered with discarded experiments from the Company — a bio-tech firm now seemingly derelict. From one of her scavenging missions, Rachel brings home Borne, who is little more than a green lump, but exudes a strange charisma. And yet, little as she understands what or who Borne may be, she cannot give him up, even as Borne begins to grow and change in unexpected ways.

Spanking Shakespeare

Shakespeare Shapiro decides to chronicle every mortifying detail of his quest to get into college and find a girlfriend in his memoir, a writing project that every high school senior must complete.

Straight to Hell

John LeFevre shoots to prominence — anonymously — as the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, an inside look at the real world of international finance.

Gimme a Call

A high school senior who is generally dissatisfied with her life mistakenly drops her phone in a fountain. When she fishes it out, she discovers the only call she can make is to herself -- at age 14, when anything seemed possible.

Greenglass House

A 12-year-old innkeeper's adopted son Milo realizes that guests checking into his father’s inn all have a connection to the house. Mysteries ensue.

The Chancellor Manuscript

Peter Chancellor turns in a novel about D.C. power brokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When some operatives get hold of the manuscript, they think he has uncovered their actual scheme and they try to hunt the author down.

The Devil in the White ...

The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.

The False Prince

Set in a distant land after the king, queen and crown prince are murdered, a nobleman devises a plan to find someone to impersonate the king’s long-lost son and act as a puppet. An orphan finds himself chosen with three other boys in the running. But this is no mere competition -- with court intrigue and political conspiracies make it a contest to the death.

Forgotten

A 16-year-old girl's memory is erased at 4:33 every night and the following morning, all she can remember are events from her future. After meeting a new boy at school, she becomes frustrated that she can't find him in her memory of things to come.

Juliet

A twentysomething woman learns she is a descendant of one of the feuding families made infamous in Romeo and Juliet. She travels to Italy and discovers that the 600-year-old curse is still in effect and her fate is tied to literature’s greatest lovers.