Search

Contains seven stories of some of history's most baffling cases of lost and found, including the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, and the discovery of the HMS "Beagle, " each with a time line, definitions of key words, and related facts.

Things don't feel right here. I want to open my eyes in the morning to see my very own wallpaper.

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her.

En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.

Ruth, a farm girl from Honey Creek, Illinois, reviews the events of her life in an effort to make sense of the violence and tragedy that have plagued her and her family from the time she was a child.

Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.

Emily Anderson, a college freshman raised by her grandparents, discovers the love story of the young parents she never knew, sets out to find them, and brings them together, a fighter pilot and a war correspondent whose love for each other remains but is made complicated by their opposing religious and political views in the midst of the Iraq War.

Sisters Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing, returning to their childhood home after their mother is killed in a car accident, are confronted with painful memories, and, as they work through their loss, they find they are able to reconnect with one another and move on with their lives.

"Milly's mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police.

Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.

Tells the story of Jackie Kennedy Onassis; her mother, Janet Auchincloss; and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, discussing their ambitions, marriages, illicit liasons, and psychological profiles.