"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown-including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...

The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother and father in a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky. Semantha, the younger and prettier one, is afraid of so many things -- darkness, strange noises, mysterious whispers in the night. But nothing frightens her more than her sister, Cassie. She is older and wiser, and always telling Semantha what to do, what to wear, and how to behave around those wicked boys at school. Semantha has her eye on one...

A young Indian boy wants to catch the biggest fish in a fishing contest so he can wear the Big Chief's war bonnet.

Two mouse brothers, Pip and Squeak, usually try to compete with each other, but their relationship finally changes when they prepare for their annual party.

The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back ... ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was...

When the television show, "Flop Starz!," comes to town, Candace is determined to become the next Super American Pop Teen Idol Star, but her plans are ruined when her brothers, Phineas and Ferb, compete with their band.

Candace and Perry both try to get the same camera, which has film of Phineas and Ferb's strange adventures and of Perry as Agent P, and then Phineas and Ferb try to make the world's biggest bowling ball.

A tale told in alternating voices traces the collaborative efforts of an estranged millionaire father and the daughter he abandoned 17 years earlier to reconcile and write his memoir.