fiction

In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters live their eccentric lives and quietly commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. Neighborhood boys who have watched them grow up piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy in a coming-of-age novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death.

World War I had accelerated the change from the Victorian Era to "modernism" in America and Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of Amory Blaine from his school years to the start of an uncertain career in New York, filled with parties and a new morality.

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

Moving from Chicago to tiny Radisson, Georgia, awakens latent psychic powers in sixteen-year-old Kendall, who finds herself communicating with ghosts and forming a ragtag ghost hunting team to research and battle a belligerent spirit that is trying to harm her father.

In Reno, Nevada, seventeen-year-old Jory Michaels is self-conscious because she does not fit in with her "beautiful" family, so while her two best friends plan on a summer spent discovering their passions before their senior year of high school, she gets a job and saves money for plastic surgery.

When a tragic accident and sudden financial woes cause recent high school graduate Logan to question plans for his future, he agrees to make a road trip with his best friend and surfing buddy, Z-boy, transporting marijuana from southern California to Orlando, Florida.