Central Skagit Library District

When Novacom Broadcasting moves in to the town of Odyssey, it gives every impression of being a reputable, family-friendly media company, until the unexplained events begin. Whit finds hidden cameras in his office and Eugene disappears without a clue to his whereabouts and blueprints for the Imagination Station are stolen. Soon missionary Jason Whittaker (Whit's son) realizes the strange things he's noticed overseas lately may be pieces to this complex...

"Nikolas, the boy who would one day be known as Santa Claus, goes on a life-changing quest to the North Pole"--

"It's been nine years since Larkin fled Georgetown, South Carolina, vowing never to go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she knows she has no choice but to return to the place that she both loves and dreads--and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home. Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered in the burned out wreckage of her family's ancestral rice plantation, badly injured and unconscious....

In a mining town in New Mexico Territory, three children left to their own devices by negligent parents meet regularly to try to school themselves, until they meet Whitey Grey, who attempts to win them over for his own purposes.