"Sirens of Memory centers on a Kuwaiti woman named Mariam who flees an abusive marriage prior to the Iraqi invasion once she discovers that she's pregnant. She leaves her husband Tareq for dead after the troops cross the border and is evacuated with the help of Raj, an Indian man with whom she's formed a connection. Raj lost his wife during the invasion and Mariam uses her identity so that she can be issued papers for evacuation as part of a massive...

"A high-speed, high-stakes account of [the] riveting true story of a father's deception, a son's loyalty, and the terrible costs of betraying both country and kin"--Back jacket flap. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But for more than two years, Jim Nicholson met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence...

After a former "big-boned" high school girl sheds a few pounds and has now been selected as homecoming princess, she is paired with a shy homecoming prince, who has issues of his own After high school senior Ariel "Cupcake" Duncan wins a surprise place in the homecoming court, she must deal with a mean girl gunning for homecoming queen as well as her growing feelings for the senior boy picked to be her homecoming "prince." Ariel "Cupcake" Duncan...

Separated from the sister she has been protecting from their irresponsible parents, fourteen-year-old Liz is forced to rely on distant relatives and forges a pact with a deceitful adult who compels her to keep a painful secret.

Bored and impatient because her mer-family only seems to summon her when they need her healing abilities, fourteen-year-old India Finch decides to ignore her grandfather and visit them without being called--but when she and her mermaid friends decide to entertain themselves by combining their powers the result is a disaster that exposes the existence of the merpeople to human eyes.

"When their best friend, Tink, dies from an apparent suicide, high school seniors Merissa and Nadia are alienated by their secrets, adrift from each other and from themselves"--Provided by publisher.

"In a compelling, complex story from the bestselling author of Wildflower Hill and Lighthouse Bay, two women separated by a century discover long-buried secrets in an Australian manor house. In 1876, Tilly, a recently married young English woman, is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances on the remote Channel Islands. Determined to get as far from England as she can, she takes on a new identity and...

"Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper's daughter Flora's remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy's Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird's son falls in love with Flora, and as tensions build in their disrupted home, any chance of their happiness seems doomed. Decades later, Flora's daughter, singer Lexie Gordon, is forced to return to the village and...

When Mattie, seventeen, seeks out the reclusive Miyu, daughter of a famed escapologist, to indulge her secret desire to learn the craft, it leads to a friendship with classmate Will, who bears a huge secret of his own.

Moses Willard, the great-great grandson of original owners of the house now turned into Wayfarers Inn, has come with his family to visit the inn. However, Moses has been receiving anonymous notes suggesting that someone is holding the Willard family treasure for ransom. At the same time, inn co-owner Tess has had a falling out with her grown daughter Lizzie and it's up to her friends, LuAnn and Janice, to help patch things up between the two.