Jesse Ball

Learning that he does not have long to live, a widower needs to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son. Taking a job as a census taker, the two leave on a cross-country journey through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet. They meet the townspeople, some of whom welcome them into their homes, while others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. As they approach...

"Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her way through the world with only a book, a Zippo lighter, and a pocket full of stolen licorice, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother in The Home, avoiding the landlord who hates her, and following the only...

Lucia Stanton tiene dieciséis años, una inteligencia explosiva, a su madre internada en un manicomio, un Zippo que atesora porque le recuerda a su papá y algunas ideas muy claras acerca de cómo debería funcionar el mundo. Vive en un garaje con su tía, una vieja anarquista con la que comparte algunas reglas esenciales. Para Lucia, la más importante es: "No hagas cosas de las que no te sientas orgullosa". Luego de ser expulsada por haberle clavado...

En la primera página de esta novela, unos golpes en la habitación de al lado advierten a Devlin y Mina que algo terrible está pasando. Ellos no lo saben aún, pero acaban de despertar a un mundo nuevo, un mundo en el que sus padres y la mayoría de las personas han muerto de manera misteriosa y la ciudad empieza a ser cercada por las llamas. Solo quedan los niños, que salen a las calles arrastrando sus juguetes y a sus hermanos más pequeños...

The disappearances of eight people from the same Japanese town baffles authorities until a signed confession appears on the police's doorstep implicating a salesman who refuses to speak, compelling a journalist to interview the subsequently condemned man's friends, family and jailors before his scheduled execution.

"What inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question more than forty renowned authors answer in LIGHT THE DARK. Each author picks a favorite passage--from a novel, a song, a poem--to reveal what gets them started and keeps them going doing the creative work they love. From there, incredible stories of life changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking a volume of Stephen King stories into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled...