Frank Carlson Library

Tess and her sister Kristina have always been different, but when Kristina gets diagnosed with cancer, Tess becomes the center of the popular crowd with everyone asking her for updates, and as Tess's sister's conditions worsen Tess must find the strength to hold her family together.

"Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live"--Publisher marketing.

Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.