"From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet-- an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements...

"When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through. After years of hard work, four best friends--Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie--are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams. A place where their community can find solace with an intriguing new read, a comforting beverage and book-loving friends. But before they can cut the ribbon, their worlds are upended. Toni receives devastating news just months before...

"A single woman and her best friend move to the Scottish Highlands to manage a local coffee shop. They encounter friendly townspeople, and sparks fly with the rugged local handyman." Freshly fired from her third job in a row, Bonnie St. James stumbles upon a "help wanted" post to run a coffee shop in the Scottish Highlands. Bonnie and her friend Dakota apply on a whim-- and get the job. When they arrive in the tiny idyllic town of Corsekelly, they...

Marlo does not know why her best friend Amos suddenly turned against her, but it makes the canoe trip their parents have arranged difficult--especially when a wrong turn sends them over a waterfall, and the two of them and the dog Cheerio are suddenly struggling for survival in the Alaskan wilderness.

Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That's why she gave him her car. Diego's best friend, Lawson, needs a ride--because Lawson is dealing. As long as Diego's not carrying, not selling, it's cool. It's just weed. But when Lawson starts carrying powder and pills and worse, their friendship is tested and their lives are threatened....

Farm puppy Bo feels left out and jealous when his best friend Scrapper comes to visit.

The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.

After an accident, seventh graders Joya Mia and Kiki help their best friend Greer cope by signing up for a triathlon.

In 1930s Newark, NJ, best friends Tommy and Benny are torn apart when Tommy attends a Nazi youth camp for German Americans, and Benjy forms an anti-Nazi vigilante group.