Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high...

When her world divides, pitting light against dark, Veda must join a dangerous revolution to save her grandfather and fight against injustice...even if it costs her the boy she loves. On the island of Bellona, life is peaceful--as long as the citizens dutifully worship the Sun, which protects them from all harm. Seventeen-year-old Veda knows that keeping the Sun happy will protect her and her grandfather from the Night, the dangerous people who snatch...

"As the son of the Obarion clan's infamous General, seventeen-year-old Atlas is well-acquainted with carrying the burden of high expectations. The tribes of the Westland have been at war for over a decade, and when Atlas is captured by his enemy clan, the Vedas, he discovers that he is more deeply tied to them than he could have ever known. He strikes up an unlikely alliance with a pair of Renegades taking refuge at the Vedas base. The Renegades -...

A showdown ensues between the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, who always works alone, when young Veda loses her second tooth the day before Easter.

"The Long War is finally over, and a tenuous peace has descended upon the Westland for the first time in almost two decades. But tension brews beneath the surface. The Obarion clanspeople, detained in their own headquarters, grow more restless and resentful with every passing day. Atlas serves as a liaison between the Obarion and the Vedas' General Moonstone, but he too grows restless when new information comes to light that could mean the difference...

Set in 1903, eleven-year-old immigrant Maureen Stevenson is ready to become a U.S. citizen--just as soon as she solves the case of who's stealing artwork from her employer's mansion.

Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, and her family are forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their home in Tennessee and travel the "Trail of Tears" to a new home in the western Indian territory.

A Japanese professor, Hyakken Uchida, retires near the end of World War II and learns to come to terms with his approaching death with the help of yearly visits from his former students.

The duo play janitors accidentally hired as sleuths to protect a new super-bomb destined for the War Department in Washington, DC. Through a series of crazy misadventures, our heroes end up in a remote-controlled airplane, along with the bomb, and headed straight for trouble.