In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.

Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.

When a gentleman crosses paths with a mysterious beauty, he soon finds he cannot forget her in this early-twentieth-century romantic mystery. Tryon Dunham has just gotten off his evening train when a beautiful young woman approaches him in a panic. She is in grave danger and desperately needs his help. To keep her safe, Tryon spends an evening in her company before she disappears on a train to Chicago. Though the mysterious woman is out of his...

At home with a cowboy. Miranda Kimbrough is a woman escaping her celebrity life. Linc Parker is a man with a debt to his past. Because of it, he's bought a ranch as a haven for kids-throwaway kids, homeless kids, runaways. Miranda, a runaway of a different kind, discovers Rascal Ranch. She falls for the place, the kids...and the man she considers a cowboy at heart. There's a problem, though. Parker despises the world of entertainers and celebrities,...

A girl called Leonora vanishes without a trace. Years earlier and miles upstate, Goldie, a wild, negligent mother, searches for a man to help raise her son, Paul, who later discovers that the only way to save his soul is to run away. As the narrative moves back and forth in time, we find deeper interconnections between these stories and growing clues about Leonora - this missing girl whose face looks out from telephone poles and billboards - whom...

"Told in three distinct, brilliantly interlocking narratives, Leigh Gallagher's Who You Might Be is a fiercely original debut novel that takes readers from 1990s Southern California to a UFOlogist holdout in the Nevada desert, the graffiti underworld of Detroit, and the self-important Brooklyn art scene to present an unflinching examination of trauma"--

"Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the mouse discovers an outside world full of wonders: Brussels...

An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.

A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.

When Bee and her group of fellow runaways meets a Lost Boy who takes them to Neverland, they discover that the land is actually a war zone under seige by pirates who will stop at nothing to steal the land's magic, and Bee and her friends are all that stand in their way.