The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

"Howard the Duck's brain has been thoroughly scrubbed, his hard-edged humor carefully dulled down for maximum demographic acceptance. It's up to Peter Parker to set the duck straight-- but does the world prefer Howard this way?" "Join Peter Porker, the amazing Spider-Ham, for his 25th-birthday celebration as he throws down with the Swinester Six! Also, glimpse into the future with Peter and Mary Crane's daughter, Swiney-Girl, as she takes on disgraced...

"Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...

In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues, for the car isn't exactly a car; it may well be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and ......

An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

Two teens set off on a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Lisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?

"Nick Fury has declared Miles Morales a super hero; now, it's time for that super-hero rite of passage: the team-up! But the new Spider-Man's first team-up couldn't possibly be with the Prowler, could it? It will be if it's up to Miles' Uncle Aaron, who's not above resorting to threats to get his way. But Miles isn't going to take such manipulation lying down, setting up a titanic battle of wills between uncle and nephew - with the Scorpion caught...

"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...

Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.

The First Lord of Alera, Gaius Sextus, has loyal followers and a relatively politically stable realm. When he is struck ill, however, he and those closest to him do their best to keep his sickness secret. Their knowledge that powerful forces exist who would like to rule Gaius' kingdom keeps them secretive, while Gaius continues to heal.