Seventeen-year-old Scilla Davis has a drug-addicted best friend, a drug-dealing almost-boyfriend, and huge legal troubles of her own but hesitates to help an FBI agent eager to catch Randy's supplier of the fad drug, Ferocity, despite his promises to help.

"Finn is a gentle, tortured dealer and addict whose life is slipping away. When he finds an almost magical drug called Indigo, he thinks it will let him break free, but he's dead wrong"--

Witty, terrifying, and utterly cool, Yablonsky's roman à clef is a searing, hyperreal account of the heroin underground in 1980s Manhattan Told with dark humor and unremitting honesty, Linda Yablonsky's riveting first novel explores the New York art and postpunk music world of the early 1980s from deep within. Set in motion by the appearance of a federal agent, the tale follows two women on a dangerous and seductive journey through a bohemia where...

Seventeen-year-old Paige Wheeler died in a fall off the high school roof and now her spirit seems bound to the school grounds, along with Brooke and Evan, two other teen ghosts who died there--but maybe if she can solve the mystery of her apparent suicide they will all be able to move on.

"Meghan's the toughest girl in her dojo with a great future in the sport, but behind her is a painful history. Betrayed by a parent and by a coach, Meghan trusts only two old friends: one who pushes her to confront her past, the other who pulls Meghan down with her in a pill-popping daze"--

Abducted by teen genius Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange, three-year-old Frog seems content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day--a game that parallels the reality around her--until Wiggins is overcome by guilt and tension and takes action.

After a life of violence and betrayal, Tirrell Ellis believes things are turning around for him when he meets Alexandra Solomon, a major player in the drug trade, until he becomes addicted to cocaine and their relationship turns sour, resulting in a terrible tragedy that changes everything.

Andria's twin sister, Iris, had adoring friends, a cool boyfriend, a wicked car, and a shelf full of soccer trophies. She had everything, in fact-- including a drug problem. Six months after Iris's death, Andria is trying to keep her grades, her friends, and her family from falling apart. But stargazing and books aren't enough to ward off her guilt that she- -the freak with the scary illness and all-black wardrobe-- is still here when Iris isn't....

"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and rehab, trying to make sense of the...

"The Meredith Mountain fire starts on Labor Day weekend and rages for days - an awesome sight, leaving a trail of havoc and destruction in its wake. Alice Adams edits the Clark's Fort Guardian newspaper, ably assisted by her nephew, Stuart Campbell, and the two cover the blaze for the paper, wowing the local community with their stunning photographs and features. When the fire is finally contained and the mop-up crew discover a burned male body under...