Dr. Temperance Brennan is asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on a case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months-- one the Canadian ambassador's daughter. Some remains have turned up in a septic tank, and, unfortunately, Tempe knows septic tanks.

When no one wanted Summer, May and her husband took her into their home in the hills of West Virginia. 'Though others believed she was worthless, May told her she was the best little girl in the world. Now May is dead, and 12-year-old Summer faces a loneliness too big to carry alone. She still desperately needs May to care for her, so she searches for some indication that May is watching over her. As each silent day passes, their home seems unbearably...

Unabridged. Freddy the pig and his barnyard friends run the very successful Barnyard Tours, Inc., but on a trip to the North Pole some sailors cause trouble for them and Santa, who, when the animals drive off the bad men, offers a sleigh ride home.

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.

A collection of reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences of leaving Africa through the Civil War and into the early 20th century.

In 1980 in Mississippi, Bobby Western dives from a Coast Guard vessel to explore a sunken jet. But he finds that too much is missing from the crash site, and now he's being shadowed by men with badges.

When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.