'Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original....When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return.' And now Olive Kitteridge has indeed returned, as indomitable as ever, navigating her next decade and the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive stragely confident in her second marriage, in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, and crossing...

A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.

"After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just how little she knew about the man she loved. With help from their friends, Irene and her sons set up their lives while evidence mounts that the helicopter crash that killed Russ may not have been an accident. Meanwhile,...

Timmy Failure is banished from practicing his detective skills in the wake of a missing tooth, a teachers' strike, and his mother's romance with a doorman, situations further complicated by the disappearance of his private notebook.

Shauna McDade is single mom to a five-year-old son after her husband was killed in a climbing accident. Her aerial photography business is on the verge of bankruptcy after a string of mechanical failures that don't seem coincidental. She recently took pictures for an environmental study and noticed a dark spot in the Juan de Fuca Strait. Her pictures created a furor when it was discovered that the runoff is coming from one of the largest lavender...

"After a fishing accident leaves her husband hospitalized across the border in Canada, Jill is left to look after her teenage boys-'the wolves'-alone. Nothing comes easy in their remote corner of Maine: money is tight; her son Sam is getting into more trouble by the day; her eldest, Charlie, is preoccupied with a new girlfriend; and Jill begins to suspect her marriage isn't as stable as she once believed. As one disaster gives way to the next, she...

Billy spends time with his "second family" at the Floral Avenue firehouse where his mother works, and dreams of growing up to be a firefighter just like her.

"If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick...

"Llama Llama's class has a parent-kid talent show coming up! But he's not sure what act to perform. Dancing? Jumping rope? There are too many decisions to make. Can Llama Llama and Mama Llama find the perfect talent?" --back cover

"Pete the Cat is in for a groovy surprise when his teacher is out sick and the new teacher is . . . his mom!" --back cover.