After he is murdered by a robber, the lonely, witty, good-natured thirty-seven-year-old, Satoru Mikami, is reincarnated as slime monster and must learn to survive in a fantasy world.
The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
Chyna is witness to a brutal homicide and, in her efforts to escape, learns the identity of the killer's next intended victim. Although common sense tells her to run for her life, she is compelled to try and rescue the young girl targeted for murder.
Detective Lindsay Boxer turns to the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club for help as she tries to find the missing teenage son of a recent governor and track down an arsonist that is burning San Francisco's most beautiful homes, with the owners still inside.
Discusses the case of the murder of Emmett Till and examines the investigative and forensic methods that crime scene investigators use in such situations.
a story of two towns, a death, and America's dilemma
Kotlowitz, Alex
Discusses the impact on a community's race relations when a young African-American is found murdered near a river which separates two Michigan towns; one predominantly white and prosperous and the other African-American and impoverished.
Provides an account of the rape and beating of twenty-eight-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili in New York's Central Park in April 1989, and the subsequent convictions of five African-American and Latino teens who confessed to the crime and spent years in jail before their convictions were overturned following the confession of a serial rapist.
The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant.
Tony Hope's dream that he and his twin brother, Mike, will someday appear together as players on a national basketball court is shattered when Mike is paralyzed in a shooting accident, but Tony decides to forge ahead and reach that goal for both of them.
