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After the sudden death of their mother, sisters Sam and Ollie McAlister move to rural Oregon to live in a teepee with Bear, their beekeeper father, but soon after they arrive, Bear is arrested for the murder of a young woman found floating in Crooked River.

City girl Callie Velasquez's fears about going camping in the woods take a second seat to her desire to be accepted by her popular new friends, and the fact that her new boyfriend will be there, too. However, after losing half their food and getting lost, Callie is seriously reconsidering her decision. Then they find a dead body, and Callie hears sinister laughter following them. She may become the next victim.

Biology Ph.D. candidate Marie Skov is devastated when, on the same day as her mother's death, her mentor Kristian Storm apparently kills himself. When she learns that Storm's research was being sabatoged and that he thought he was being followed, Skov asks for help from the police, but the only one who agrees to help her is Marhauge, who shares her desire for answers.

"A lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final wish converge to send two brothers--both Vatican priests--on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity's greatest historical mystery"--Dust jacket flap.

Billy Zeets has a story, and he wants to tell it. He is the neighborhood kid everyone suspects whenever there is a vandalism, theft, or bloodied nose. However, he is also the only one who knows the truth about something very dangerous and bad that has happened. For a kid who usually breaks the rules, this time, Billy may be the story's hero.

After witnessing her mother's murder, sixteen-year-old high school student Liza Wellington and her father go into the witness protection program.

U.S. president Jack Ryan enlists the help of "The Campus," a secret organization run by Ryan's son, Jack Ryan Jr., to put a stop to a North Korean nuclear weapons program targeting the U.S.

When a dark force overtakes the town of Oleander, Kansas and causes its citizens to descend into murderous madness, five individuals step up to confront the darkness and find a way to defeat it in order to save the town from itself.

Game warden Joe Pickett is sent on a mission by the Wyoming governor to uncover the secrets behind philanthropist Wolfgang Templeton, who resides on a massive and remote ranch in the Black Hills and is rumored to have made his money with the help of hired assassins.

Olivia Tithe, a sixteen-year-old self-styled artist, struggles to keep her sanity as she unravels the clues left by the ghost of her first love to figure out how he died.