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Rose Edelstein, on the eve of her ninth birthday, bites into her mother's lemon-chocolate cake and is immediately aware of the hidden secrets the members of her family hold.

"The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community.

Formerly rich girls, Lorrie Hollander and her sister have had to get used to living in Edgewater, their eccentric Aunt Gigi's decaying mansion, after their wealthy mother abandoned on them.

"To prove to her mother, a famous opera singer dealing with depression after losing her singing voice, that she can handle the grueling life of an actress, Ingrid must survive a wilderness camp"--OCLC.

"Tallulah James comes from a long line of intelligent college professors with strong Southern roots .

"Eran Sharon knows nothing of his father except that he left when Eran was a baby.

"Kyoto, Japan, 1948. Noriko 'Nori' Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her, or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate.

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr.

"[Relates] the adventure[s] of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest.

"The story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals: a .

In the time since their friend Arie died, new problems have surfaced for Ciana Beauchamp and Eden McLauren of Tennessee--Eden is heading to Australia to rekindle her romance with Garret, while Ciana is being pressured to sell her family's land to a developer and a long buried family secret is threatening to end her relationship with Jon, the man she wants to marry.

"Life sucks when you're twelve. You're not a little kid, but you're also not an adult, and all the grown-ups in your life talk about your body the minute it starts getting a shape.