Andy Paris

Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?

All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemia. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure Kate's survival. But when their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlists the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body. Performers Read by various narrators.

"A. J. and the Ella Mentry School gang learn some unusual self-defense moves from a wacky teacher who thinks he's an action hero"--

A former captain in the Marines' 1st Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistatn and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first century battle.

A teenager with Asperger's syndrome--smart, quirky, with a passion for crime scene analysis--winds up on trial for murder.

Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's...

Familiar themes such as infidelity, chilhood loss, middle-class boredom, and more are given fresh considertion through Porter's prose and eye for detail. With their lives in flux, characters are forced to re-examine past transgressions as well as their relationships with loved ones. And through each story, listeners are reminded of the unreliability of memory and the hazy nature of youth.