Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

Nicolo Zen is all alone in 1700s Venice, save for his clarinet, which a mysterious magician had enchanted, allowing its first player to perform expertly.

In attempting to describe himself in his college application essay, Harbinger (Harry) Jones goes way beyond the 250-word limit and gives a full account of his life.

One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe.

Magic was seeping out of me, black and agonizing.

Charlie, otherwise known as Queen Charlaina of Ludania, has become comfortable as a leader and a ruler.

Emily’s dad is accused of murdering a teenage girl.

For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq.

As sixteen-year-old Aidan Donovan’s fractured family disintegrates around him, he searches for solace in a few bumps of Adderall, his father’s wet bar, and the attentions of his local priest, Father Greg—the only adult who actually listens to him.

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