communal living

Nearing the end of high school, Oli and a close-knit group of friends have secretly decided to leave it all behind to live in a remote island commune. But when a fight with a bully results in an altercation, Oli flees school, grabs her two friends, and leaves early for the commune. However, after some misadventures, they arrive and see that the commune is nothing like they thought it would be. Meanwhile, her ex-best friend Liam, trails behind them, hoping to make things right with Oli.

The language-loving inhabitants of a South Carolina island interpret the falling of the letter "Z" from a beloved monument as a divine warning not to use the letter any longer. But catastrophe is imminent when the other letters in the monument--which contains the entire alphabet--begin falling one by one.

When Sparrow's mother is sent to rehab for opiod addiction, Sparrow is sent to live in a commune with her estranged Aunt where Sparrow begins to embrace their true gender identity.

"Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost"--Provided by the publisher.

A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicion and paranoia when one of them goes missing.

Bibi is an elderly flamingo who looks out for the flock, and especially the babies--but when it looks like she will not be able to migrate the rest of the flock tell her it is their turn to look out for her.

Tormented by bullies, Mo is a boy just trying to survive high school in a mysterious mountain town known as the "Bigfoot Sighting Capital of the World." He secretly loves Prophecy, a girl living with a group that some call a commune and others call a cult. When her family starts down a dark path, Mo learns that real terror doesn't hide in the woods surrounding Boulder Creek. Far scarier are the monsters found much closer to home.

Three teen girls get caught up in a real estate battle between a commune and an exploitative megachurch in their small Montana town, and they devise a plot to exact revenge and make a profit by kidnapping the pastor's son and demanding ransom money.

Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Galliard and seventeen-year-old Stella cross paths and realize they must determine their own futures as strange events occur in Slater, Kansas, and its neighboring commune in 1977.

"They went off the grid. Their secrets didn't. . . Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into an idyllic self-sustaining compound called the Homestead. Louisa spearheads the project, as her wealthy family owns the plot of land. Beau is the second to commit; as mysterious and sexy as he is charismatic, he torments Louisa with his nightly disappearances and his other relationships.