death

When her cousin Shiri commits suicide, Sunshine "Sunny" Pryce-Shah's life turns inside out. Apart from the grief, Sunny discovers she has gained the ability to "underhear" people's thoughts. This leads her to find out what her so-called friends really think about her, and if she isn't careful, Sunny decides that she might soon go the way of Shiri.

A plant/human hybrid superhero named Black Orchid goes on a spiritual journey in the wake of her death, during which she reviews her life, investigates her origins, and is given the opportunity to avenge herself.

When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.

Interconnected stories reveal the reactions of nine people--friends, an ex-girlfriend, his sister, even someone who never knew him in life--to the unexpected death of charismatic nineteen-year-old Kevin Nicholas, and expose his darker side.

When teenaged Sarah dies in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her two sisters into a tailspin of grief and confusion, Sarah wakes up in the afterlife and must piece together how she got there.

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Uses the story of unexplained deaths to demonstrate how medical and police investigators make use of science and technology to discover how the people died, whether criminal acts are involved, and if so who is responsible.

When Scotty feels responsible for a terrible accident, she cannot tell what is a dream and what is real, her friends have a hard time getting through to her, and her family is preoccupied with their own trauma.

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts.