"In an unnamed city, Edie works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as "bodies", wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits--numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. Edie has been with the company for five years, an unusual record. Her success is the result of careful...

Secundo enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.

On the planet Cybertron, a war was waged between the Autobots and the Decepticons for control of the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Allspark is smuggled off the planet, but Megatron goes in search of it. He tracks it to Earth and his desire for power sends him into the Arctic Ocean. The sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state. His body is later recovered, and before going into a comatose...

"After five hectic years of retirement from Lord's Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, to Mitford where he - and his beloved friends and family - face the challenge of settling into the next phase of their lives"--

"King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and purblind Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page...

"It's the meeting of the trinities, as the six aforementioned heroes must save DC's Dark Trinity--Red Hood, Artemis and Bizarro! As these three antiheroes are sacrificed into the depths of the Pandora Pits by Circe and Ra's al Ghul, will Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman be able to save their demonically possessed allies?"--

Tensions are running high amongst New York's finest investigative and legal professionals with cases ranging from dog maulings to revived cold cases that bring to light errors of the past. But as the season builds to a frenzy, some of the team will find themselves under attack for taking justice to the extreme.

Bail out: Three down-on-their-luck bounty hunters promise to deliver the daughter of a millionaire to trial on drug charges. Somewhere tomorrow: A professional guardian angel has been transported to Earth to help a young woman. Cuba crossing: An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro. When the bough breaks: A detective and a child psychologist investigate a child molestation ring that uses a center for troubled children as a front. Crossbar:...