Two former high school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they have made since they last met.

When forty-three-year-old Fiona Edwards first sees the lanky backpacker striding up the lane toward her award-winning farmhouse bed-and-breakfast in the remote mountains of North Wales, she's puzzled. She's used to unexpected strangers, but few arrive on foot. The man to whom she opens her door is
middle-aged, unshaven, sweat-soaked . . . and arrestingly handsome. What neither of them knows at that moment is that their lives are about to change...

Three friends and former college bandmates struggle with the poignant midlife difficulties of managing the sexuality, independence and secrets of their young-adult children against painful memories of a friend who soared and fell without them.

A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away.

Twelve-year-olds Oliver Beane and Frankie Figge are starting middle school, but from the beginning things seem a little weird, starting with the mysterious girl Matilda Sandoval who seems to know a lot about the boys, and continuing with a series of apparently random events that may not be random at all; somehow it all leads back to Preston Oglethorpe, a former student genius at their school who won the Nobel prize in Physics for his work in applied...

Murray the "patrol dog" is alarmed by the holiday changes--from the tree indoors and the socks by the fireplace to the peculiar person who pops up in the living room in the middle of the night.

Just as he is about to retire, middle-aged assassin Henry Brogan discovers he is a target and the person hunting him is a younger clone of himself that can anticipate his thoughts and actions.