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Through a series of lists, a narrator reveals how fifteen-year old Darren's world was rocked by his parents' divorce just as his brother, Nate, was leaving for college, and a year later when his father comes out as gay, then how he begins to deal with it all after a stolen weekend with Nate and his crush, Zoey.

Fifteen-year-old Colette is a compulsive liar spending a miserable summer in San Luis Obispo, California, babysitting her seven-year-old brother while her famous mother shoots a movie, but things look up when Connor enters the scene.

As a leader in the European Union, Germany is one of the most prosperous and influential nations in the world. German youngsters grow up in a nation rich in culture and opportunity. Featured is an overview of the country, as well as insights into how Germany s youth experience home and family, education and work, social life, and more.

Young people in Russia live in a society with many strict rules about free speech. But through education, the arts, and athletics, many young Russians continue to find ways to express themselves and reach for their potential. Russia is a country with a tumultuous history and an uncertain future. It also has an extremely diverse population, with most young people living in cities, and others living in very rural, simple villages. Featured is an overview...

Follows the story of a Federal Marshal with the Witness Protection program who must hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family.

When a hurricane threatens Emily's small Maine town, she uses the psychic connection she shares with her dog, Zack, to help save the town from destruction.

In 1977, as twelve-year-old Theo struggles with a science class project on space exploration, questions emerge about why his father never returned from Vietnam and why Theo's mother has been keeping secrets for many years.

"For the first time in her life, struggling bakery owner Julie Farmington has something that is all hers. She's not interested in any entanglements or anything that takes her mind off her goal--including the handsome stranger who is only in town for a month. But her traitorous heart won't listen to reason as she starts to fall for the man who is just going to leave when he returns to his own life in Seattle. Just add yet one more name to the list...

James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...