Patricia Phillips

Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.

Quelle créature pèse moins d'un gramme et parcours des milliers de kilomètres chaque année ? Comment une créature pesant moins d'un gramme peut-elle parcourir des milliers de kilomètres chaque année et savoir rejoindre un lieu qu'elle n'a jamais vu ? Embarquez dans une aventure scientifique digne d'une véritable enquête qui verra, au bout de plusieurs décennies se lever le voile sur l'une des plus grandes énigmes de la nature : la migration des papillons Monarque, la plus longue migration d'insectes sur Terre.

Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.

In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied. Jane is forced into a private academy, in which the other girls tell her that her father, whom Jane believes to be dead, is actually alive. Soon after, Andrew Stuart sends word that he would like to meet his long-lost daughter, so Jane is sent by train to Bright River to stay with him, where she encounters an old mystery that she must help her father overcome, new friends, and the chance to bring her father and mother back together again.

Sixteen-year-old Ryan Delaney has won a scholarship, but it's not a full one, so he needs a summer job to pay for his university expenses. And although he's not eighteen, he can't swim, and has never been to camp, he manages to get a job as a camp couselor. But his mother makes him take his younger brother, Sullivan, with him to camp, since she can't look after him while she's working. But camp turns out to be harder than both Ryan and Sullivan thought it would be; and as they fight their battles, they learn about each other, themselves, and what they can do together.

Henry est un jeune milliardaire à la tête de deux sociétés immobilières, dont l’une récemment acquise. En déplacement à Vienne pour chapeauter la fusion de ces deux dernières, il rencontre Charlotte, une jeune Américaine qui a repris la chocolaterie familiale. Malheureusement, l’immeuble où se trouve sa boutique est menacé de démolition à cause d’un projet de construction. Ne réalisant pas tout de suite qu’il s’agit d’un projet lancé par la société qu’il vient de racheter, Henry va se rapprocher de Charlotte et découvrir toute la magie de Vienne en cette période festive…

Un nouveau chapitre explosif, dans lequel les survivants continuent la lutte contre les aliens tandis qu'un phénomène étrange s'empare de la population à travers le monde. Les survivants parviendront-ils à sauver l'humanité?