Seventh-grade detective Sammy Keyes gets involved in a mystery when she sets out in search of her mother, who left Sammy for Hollywood over a year ago to pursue an acting career. Sammy is shocked to discover that her mom has, among other things, dyed her hair, changed her name, and denied the existence of her daughter. When one of her mother's roommates is murdered Sammy discovers that everyone--including her own mom--is a suspect. Is Sammy's mother really a killer--or is she the killer's next intended victim?

Yoruba priestess Iyanla Vanzant, author of several best selling self-help books, writes about her life from age 2. Much of it is painful, but the healing comes through.

As government-sponsored manned missions from China and the United States vie to be the first to land on Mars, a homemade spaceship built and crewed by four Florida teens, an alcoholic former astronaut, and an unconventional scientific savant enters the space race in this Heinleinian homage by John Varley.

In this novel from Verne's "Extraordinary Journeys" series Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, enter an extinct Icelandic volcano. What they find there is truly extraordinary--a thriving ecosystem, giant shepherds, the corpse of an earlier explorer, and human beings.