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The probable future

Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

Call waiting

Someone is calling Karen to tell her the plans they've made just for her. Poor Karen, she's all alone now. And if Karen can't trace the killer caller, she's going to die.

Sleepless

Terrified by the gruesome nightmares and unexplained bouts of sleepwalking that seem to be affecting her and many other students at Saint Opportuna High, Emma and her friends become even more unnerved when, after several deaths, they begin to suspect that something is causing them to kill in their sleep.

Making up Megaboy

When thirteen-year-old Robbie shoots an old man in a liquor store, everyone who knows the quiet, withdrawn youth struggles to understand this act of seemingly random violence.

A gathering of old men

When Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

Lie to me

When Amelia woke up in the hospital with bruises, broken bones, and a concussion, everybody insisted that she accidentally fell down the embankment and almost into the river; but Amelia cannot shake the feeling that she was pushed, especially since another young woman was found nearby, dead--and so, with the help of a new friend, Liam, and despite her best friend's reservations, she sets out to discover the truth, even though her search seems to be leading her ever deeper into danger.

The musician's daughter

In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.

The Lindbergh child

the atrocious kidnapping and murder of the infant son of America's hero, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh / written and illustrated by Rick Geary
A graphic novel account of the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and the investigation and arrest that followed.

High risk

Nancy and Ned look for the thief of several official legal documents in order to help River Heights resident Evaline Waters keep her home when a large corporation demands her land for a new warehouse.

The 7 1

Aiden Bishop learns that Evelyn Hardcastle is going to be murdered at a masquerade ball held at the Blackheath estate. He wakes up each day at Blackheath inside a different body of one of eight witnesses, and races to find the killer before he can escape his situation and break the cycle--otherwise he is doomed to remain at Blackheath forever.
Cover image of The 7 1

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