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Celina has just graduated high school, and her mom insists she finds a summer job. She's not the most social or outgoing teenager due to her social anxiety and heavy stutter. No matter, her mother applies on her behalf at the local indoor waterpark, and Celina finds herself trudging up the entrance pathway to her first day on the job. The doors open to reveal a noisy, tropical oasis and a callous manager, both of which are going to provide a full summer of challenges for this introverted girl-who can't swim.

Meanwhile, Cornelius the cockroach is battling his own challenges. Humans have...

A well-known and celebrated man of American letters, Anton Lotus has spent the last few decades living anonymously in a small, semi-rural Pennsylvania town. After years of rather unabashed, libertine behavior, he finds himself faced with the curious and perhaps ironic circumstance of testing HIV positive at the age of eighty-three.

Lotus's physician refers him to a female counselor. Unaware of his true identity, she recommends that he engage in "scriptotherapy" as part of his treatment. Rather than write about this illness, Lotus-stubbornly unsentimental-instead uses the activity to...

It was 1933, and Bress Thompson's 14-year-old daughter, Lois, had just confronted him. She demanded that he allow her to continue to go to school. He picked up a stick and drew a line in the dirt road leading away from their mountain home in Promise, Oregon. He threatened her with loss of home if she crossed it.

"Scared and shaking so bad I could hardly make my way, I followed Pop into the house and set about packing my belongings. I put what little I had into my pillow case and left. I couldn't stay and have all my dreams die in that house."

This is the story of Lois...

Gerald Richards and his son return to their hometown after the death of his wife. He gets a job working for a local newspaper. He becomes obsessed with a story about a church fire in 1942, and begins a journalistic investigation. During the process, he becomes acquainted with several local people who turn into major supporting characters throughout the book. As fate would have it, the fire is connected to a 1925 double murder involving a prominent Lakeview family. The plot becomes multigenerational murder when the family tries to cover up the sins of their ancestors.