Eighteen-year-old, mystery-loving Birdie's new job at a historic Seattle hotel leads her and her co-worker, Daniel, to a real mystery about a reclusive writer who resides there.
Seattle, 1913. Dorothy knows the art of the con and weds a wealthy man for security. But after sneaking away from the wedding and stowing away on a stranger's peculiar aircraft in her wedding dress, she wakes up in a chilling future and realizes she's in over her head. It's New Seattle, 2077. The plane belongs to Ash and is really a time machine. Ash is trying to save his professor and mentor--the only one who can save New Seattle from the violence that plagues it. The last thing Ash needs is trouble, in the form of Dorothy, if he wants to prevent his terrifying future from coming true.
"Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein, eighteen, wonders if seventeen-year-old Peter Rosenthal-Porter, gifted pianist, best friend, and secret crush, will love her back after receiving her kidney"--Provided by publisher.
"Thirteen years ago, the world ended. A deadly chemical called Waste began to spread across the globe, leaving devastation in its wake. Millions died. Cities fell into chaos. Anything the Waste didn't kill, it mutated into threatening new forms. Kobi has always believed he and his dad were the only survivors. But when his dad goes missing, Kobi follows his trail--and discovers a conspiracy even deadlier than the Waste itself"--Amazon.com.
When she makes friends with some seagulls, Pickles, a young whale, joins them in taunting her old friend, a seal named Stitches, but when the gulls turn on Pickles, she learns how much bullying hurts.
Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as she fell.
Hockey stars Mike "Crazy" Keats and his Cree Indian friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning a championship the least of their concerns.