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Kids are collared by drug enforcement agents for relatively minor or even borderline serious infractions like being caught with small amounts of drugs. They trade cooperation for prosecution. The agents take the untrained kids and wire them up and put them into incredibly dangerous sting operations to catch big fish. Law enforcement seems indifferent about their kid snitches, and kept using the kids over and over again under the threat they would otherwise be sent to prison. When the dealers learn the kids are working for agents they are tortured, beaten. After the fact, the cops circle the wagons and sometimes paint the murder victims as incorrigible druggies as their outraged families sue.

13th-century Italian explorer Marco Polo travels in China and other parts of Asia.

Having lost the love of his life, a 75-year old man agrees to trade his old carcass for a younger, genetically-enhanced body so that he can join a military coalition sent to protect human colonies in outer space. Injured in battle, he's rescued by a woman who appears to be a younger version of his wife, and while she doesn't recognize him, he decides to abandon his unit and risk everything to be with her.

A college student learns he is going deaf and memorizes his favorite songs to help capture the most important memories of his life — including falling in love.

The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.

On Easter Sunday in 2008, an Alaskan trawler sinks in frigid, 6,000-foot-deep waters 180 miles offshore. Despite 15-foot swells, the Coast Guard manages to rescue 42 of the 47 people onboard.

A man is shipwrecked in space for years when one day a rescue crew passes him by. Angered, he channels his energies into seeking revenge and begins scheming.

Two police detectives heading a plainclothes division try to solve a series of armored car robberies with a promotion going to whoever catches the perpetrators.

In the early 70's, Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam veteran by the age of 20, ends up involved in gangland takeovers of NYC nightclubs. He goes to Miami where he deals billions of dollars of cocaine for the Medellin drug cartel and ultimately spends 10 years in prison.

An LAPD cop who becomes a mole investigating a crime against the head of the Mexican mafia. He and his partner soon become involved in web of corruption and retribution involving gang bangers, dirty cops and the mexican mob.

Covers a history of the changing perceptions of autism over the past 80 years, going back to the research of Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger.

Follows 27-year old Lucy, who sustained a traumatic brain injury when she was three.

A thriller about a young white collar criminal whose attempt to straighten out his life is imperiled by an obsessive and menacing parole officer.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant and pararescueman August O’Niell is injured in the line of duty and makes the decision to amputate his left leg above the knee so he has a better chance of returning to service.

Peter Chancellor turns in a novel about D.C. power brokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When some operatives get hold of the manuscript, they think he has uncovered their actual scheme and they try to hunt the author down.

A young female detective goes undercover to solve a murder in an elite college town. The detective wants to discover the truth, but she finds this new world to be quite seductive.

Set in 2049 when the Earth is at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation, a radical faction known as the Wolfpack overthrows the government and takes control.

A war vet returns from battle to his hometown a paraplegic. Until one day he just literally stands up. No one knows how. The town thinks he's a Messiah and he soon has news media and the Vatican on his doorstep.