In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.

"O the Owl loves to read! But what happens when there are too many books to choose from?"--Back cover.

"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, called in to help investigate a massive explosion in the forests of Twelve Sleep County in which a well-known environmental activist is presumed to have died, puts his own life in danger when he refuses to accept the verdict that the incident was an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong.

Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.

Mason "Mace" Perry, having been incarcerated for two years and lost her badge for a crime she did not commit, is released from prison and determined to be reinstated, deciding the only way to do so is to solve a murder of a female lawyer, but evidence of secrets within the private and public world of the nation's capital threaten her chances of becoming a police officer again and her life.

"An African-American middle schooler who has recently lost both his parents sees a ghost wearing old-fashioned clothing in the basement of the New York Public Library"--

After being publicly jilted by gubernatorial candidate Oliver Russell, advertising executive Leslie Stewart plots the rest of her life with an eye toward destroying the ambitious politician.

"When library page Jordan Young falls asleep in the children's section of T. Middleton Nightingale City Library, she misses the initial transformation of the library and wakes up to find herself in the land of Lilliput, where the tiny people are fighting over how to crack an egg and a friendly giant from Brobdingnag is looking for her giant mischievous monkey."--Provided by publisher.

Seven years after Sarah Mason's five-year-old daughter disappeared, Sarah receives a phone call from a terrified girl claiming to be her missing daughter, sending Sarah on a journey to find her child.