"On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. She didn't. And then she died. Now she's stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge-as their latest Ghost of Christmas Past. Every year, they save another miserly grouch. Every year, Holly stays frozen at seventeen while her family and friends go on living without her. So far, Hollys afterlife has been miserable. But this year, everything is about to change..."--Publisher.
Three years after her return from the Ever After, May Bird, now thirteen, draws her scattered friends, Pumpkin, Fabbio, Beatrice, and Lucius, out of hiding to take a final stand against evil Bo Cleevil.
Holded up in their missing neighbors' cabin in a Montana blizzard, seventeen-year-old Zoe and her little brother are rescued from an intruder by X, a bounty hunter sent from the Lowlands to claim the souls of evil men.
X is determined to break the lords' hold on him once and for all, but being stripped of his power pushes him toward a darkness he's never experienced and a past he's never known.
Along a narrow strip of fertile land bordering the mighty Nile River, the ancient Egyptians fashioned a complex, successful civilization that endured for more than three millennia.
In a futuristic world, sixteen-year-old Ashala has been captured by those bent on destroying her tribe--the runaway illegals hiding in the Firstwood. Now injured and her Sleepwalker ability blocked, Ashala must face interrogation and try to protect the secrets about the illegals she carries in her mind.
After his death in a car accident, Rhett Snyder becomes a syllektor and joins the crew of the Harbinger, a ship tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead.
Presents the latest scientific research behind artificial life, the quest for immortality, the difference between human life and animal and plant life, and other topics.
