Books like We Begin at the End
Thirty years after he killed a girl in the small California town of Cape Haven, Vincent King comes out of prison, and Walk, his childhood friend and now the town's police chief, tries to keep the peace, while Duchess Radley, a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw, looks after her little brother and their troubled mother.
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Ordinary Grace
In the summer of 1961 in a small Minnesota town, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum, son of the Methodist minister, sees death come to town in several forms.
All the Colors of the Dark
In 1975 in Monta Clare, Missouri, where girls have been going missing, Patch, a thirteen-year-old with one eye who dreams of being a pirate, saves a classmate from an abduction and is taken in her place, and his friend Saint will not stop looking for him.
Nightcrawling
Kiara Johnson, seventeen, is trying to keep the rent paid on the East Oakland apartment she shares with her older brother when a chance encounter pulls her into a scandal that runs through the city's police department.
Silent Joe
Joe Trona, scarred as a baby when his father threw acid in his face, works as a deputy in Orange County and as bodyguard to the county supervisor who adopted him, until the man is shot dead in front of him.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Fifty Words for Rain
In Kyoto in 1948, Nori, eight, the daughter of a Japanese aristocrat and a Black American soldier, is left by her mother at her grandmother's estate, where she is kept hidden in the attic.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Larry Ott has lived as an outcast in a small Mississippi town since a girl he took on a date vanished twenty-five years ago. When another girl goes missing, the town's constable is Silas Jones, the Black boy he was friends with as a child.
Stay With Me
Yejide and Akin, a happily married couple in 1980s Nigeria, still have no children after four years, and Akin's family brings home a second wife.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, tells the story of his charmed family on High Point Farm in upstate New York, and of what became of them after a Valentine's Day dance in 1976.
The Last Romantics
In 2079 the celebrated poet Fiona Skinner, now very old, tells an audience the true story behind her most famous poem, which begins with the Pause, the years after her father's death when her mother took to her bed and four children raised themselves.
The Galton Case
Lew Archer is hired by the lawyer of Maria Galton, a rich and dying old woman, to find her son Anthony, who ran off with a girl more than twenty years ago and was never heard from again.
The Last Child
Johnny Merrimon, thirteen, is still searching on his own for his twin sister Alyssa, who vanished a year ago, while the detective who failed to find her can't let it go.