A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.
On an errand for Kepler, his new master, Boy is captured and imprisoned in the palace dungeon, where he plots his escape from the evil Maxim and the lunatic King Frederick, and learns a disturbing secret about his father.
Ivy, having made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was just seven, and learned another surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh curse of having excessive love for one's mother.
Cooper Jewett, a fourteen-year-old who has never seen even a photo of his parents, wants to continue his simple life on his New Hampshire dairy farm after his grandfather dies but is dragged into election year politics when a senator uncovers a scandal and claims that the president and her husband are Cooper's parents.
Follows the three major food chains that feed humans--industrial, organic, and hunter-gatherer--from the earth to four meals, exploring the ethical and political effects of one's food choices.
Presents the memoirs of a Dutch woman in which she tells how her Christian faith sustained her after she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her family's activities in the anti-Nazi underground.
