Mind Games by Kiersten White

Mind Games - Orphaned, Fia and Annie lived with their aunt until they are accepted into the Keane Foundation School.  At this school they learn to enhance their natural psychic abilities.  Fia never likes the place and they soon learn that there is something wrong.  However, Annie's life is threatened when Fia does not do what Mr. Keane wants, and so they stay until Fia fakes the death of a target who is also targeted by another group.

Mind Games by Kiersten White

Mind Games - Orphaned, Fia and Annie lived with their aunt until they are accepted into the Keane Foundation School.  At this school they learn to enhance their natural psychic abilities.  Fia never likes the place and they soon learn that there is something wrong.  However, Annie's life is threatened when Fia does not do what Mr. Keane wants, and so they stay until Fia fakes the death of a target who is also targeted by another group.

Winter Chill by Joanne Fluke

Winter Chill - Marian Larsen loses her young daughter Laura in a snowmobile accident.  The same accident paralyzes her husband, Dan.  In her grief, Marian believes her daughter is still with her and communicates through written notes.  Dan withdraws into himself until he is convinced to return to work.  The couple slowly get involved in their community activities.  Then one of Laura's best friend is killed in another accident, followed by the death of another of her friends.  The community begins to suspect the accidents are murder.

Winter Chill by Joanne Fluke

Winter Chill - Marian Larsen loses her young daughter Laura in a snowmobile accident.  The same accident paralyzes her husband, Dan.  In her grief, Marian believes her daughter is still with her and communicates through written notes.  Dan withdraws into himself until he is convinced to return to work.  The couple slowly get involved in their community activities.  Then one of Laura's best friend is killed in another accident, followed by the death of another of her friends.  The community begins to suspect the accidents are murder.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Forgotten Garden: A Novel - In 1913, Nell is abandoned on a ship headed to Australia.  The dockmaster in Maryborough finds her and raises her as his own.  When she is 21, he tells her the truth. She spends her life searching for her roots.  When she dies, her granddaughter Cassandra takes up the search.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Forgotten Garden: A Novel - In 1913, Nell is abandoned on a ship headed to Australia.  The dockmaster in Maryborough finds her and raises her as his own.  When she is 21, he tells her the truth. She spends her life searching for her roots.  When she dies, her granddaughter Cassandra takes up the search.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Language of Flowers: A Novel - A product of the foster-care system, Victoria grows up without a family.  At her last foster home, she learns the meanings of flowers with Elizabeth.  Elizabeth has family issues of her own.  At the age of 18, Victoria is emancipated and lives the streets until she is employed at a flower shop.  As she learns the business her reputation grows and she becomes friends with a man related to Elizabeth.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Language of Flowers: A Novel - A product of the foster-care system, Victoria grows up without a family.  At her last foster home, she learns the meanings of flowers with Elizabeth.  Elizabeth has family issues of her own.  At the age of 18, Victoria is emancipated and lives the streets until she is employed at a flower shop.  As she learns the business her reputation grows and she becomes friends with a man related to Elizabeth.

Dance of the Reptiles by Carl Hiaasen

Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns (Vintage Original) - Selected columns from Hiaasen's column.  Most deal with the politics and situation in Florida.  However, there are also a good amount of comments on the politics and issues in the United States.

Dance of the Reptiles by Carl Hiaasen

Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns (Vintage Original) - Selected columns from Hiaasen's column.  Most deal with the politics and situation in Florida.  However, there are also a good amount of comments on the politics and issues in the United States.

The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book I - Card creates an 18th century America where magic exists.  Alvin Miller is the seventh son of the seventh son and thus born with certain powers.  Of course, there are those who believe that all magic is the work of the devil and want to destroy anyone who practices magic of any kind.  However, Alvin has strong allies who protect him as he grows.

The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book I - Card creates an 18th century America where magic exists.  Alvin Miller is the seventh son of the seventh son and thus born with certain powers.  Of course, there are those who believe that all magic is the work of the devil and want to destroy anyone who practices magic of any kind.  However, Alvin has strong allies who protect him as he grows.

NYPD Red 2 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp

NYPD Red 2 - A mobster's son rapes Dave's sister. Teenage Gideon and Dave get revenge by killing the rapist.  Several years later, a woman of great influence and wealth is murdered.  After her body is discovered, a YouTube video appears with her admitting to killing her roommate.  NYPD Red is called in to investigate this as well as previous murders with the same MO.

NYPD Red 2 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp

NYPD Red 2 - A mobster's son rapes Dave's sister. Teenage Gideon and Dave get revenge by killing the rapist.  Several years later, a woman of great influence and wealth is murdered.  After her body is discovered, a YouTube video appears with her admitting to killing her roommate.  NYPD Red is called in to investigate this as well as previous murders with the same MO.

Standup Guy by Stuart Woods

Standup Guy (Stone Barrington) - John Fratelli, just released from jail, inherited several million dollars from his cellmate.  Fratelli has come to Stone to get advice on his legal standing in this situation.  Once Stone gives his advice, he learns that the dead inmate's accomplices, the Russian mob, and a New York Detective are looking for Fratelli and will go through Stone to find him.

Standup Guy by Stuart Woods

Standup Guy (Stone Barrington) - John Fratelli, just released from jail, inherited several million dollars from his cellmate.  Fratelli has come to Stone to get advice on his legal standing in this situation.  Once Stone gives his advice, he learns that the dead inmate's accomplices, the Russian mob, and a New York Detective are looking for Fratelli and will go through Stone to find him.

Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

Ender in Exile - Although written after several other of the Ender books, most of Ender in Exile happens between the 14th and 15th chapters of Ender's Game.  Ender chooses to join a colony ship to help settle one of the new planets won in the war against the Formics.  Val, his sister, accompanies him while she writes the history of the bugger wars.

Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

Ender in Exile - Although written after several other of the Ender books, most of Ender in Exile happens between the 14th and 15th chapters of Ender's Game.  Ender chooses to join a colony ship to help settle one of the new planets won in the war against the Formics.  Val, his sister, accompanies him while she writes the history of the bugger wars.

The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly

The Gods of Guilt (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel) - A prostitute that Mickey Haller thought he had helped to get out of the life is murdered.  The man who is accused of murdering her asks Mickey to represent him.  As Mickey investigates the case, he learns that the arresting officer had been compromised several years previously, and may have arrested the man on orders from the real killer.

The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly

The Gods of Guilt (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel) - A prostitute that Mickey Haller thought he had helped to get out of the life is murdered.  The man who is accused of murdering her asks Mickey to represent him.  As Mickey investigates the case, he learns that the arresting officer had been compromised several years previously, and may have arrested the man on orders from the real killer.

Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb

Concealed in Death (In Death Series) - When Roarke takes a sledgehammer to a wall in a building he plans to renovate, he finds two bodies wrapped up in a cloth.  Before the Dallas and the police finish searching the place, they find twelve bodies.  Because the building use to house a home for trouble kids, their investigation centers around the brothers and sister who owned the place.

Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb

Concealed in Death (In Death Series) - When Roarke takes a sledgehammer to a wall in a building he plans to renovate, he finds two bodies wrapped up in a cloth.  Before the Dallas and the police finish searching the place, they find twelve bodies.  Because the building use to house a home for trouble kids, their investigation centers around the brothers and sister who owned the place.