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Frank Balenger, the emotionally banged-up hero of the Stoker Awardwinning Creepers(2005), finds he must play an elaborate time-travel game to save himself and his lover, blonde, blue-eyed Amanda Evert, who reminds him so much of his late wife. The nefarious Adrian Murdock, a history professor at Atlanta's Oglethorpe University and a member of the Time Capsule Society, sends the pair on a hunt through time that keeps them in constant danger as they...

On her eighth birthday Maude buries a red tin box with some special treasures at the foot of a flowering dogwood tree and makes a promise to herself--and many years later she and her granddaughter travel to her childhood home to dig it up and pass it on.

When Benny decides to dig a hole in the back yard, Grandfather gives him an old map that leads to a special discovery.

"It's been thirteen years since Kate Callahan's husband committed suicide after being arrested for murdering Police Chief Sean Blaylock's wife. It's a small town and memories are long, but they've all tried to put the tragedy behind them, especially Kate and Sean. But it's all brought up again when the town's quaint tradition of creating a time capsule every fifty years reveals a macabre set of predictions dating back to days before the murder/suicide....

"A child gathers keepsakes from everyday life, seals them in a jar, and buries them underground. A gift from the present day ... to people of the future ... that tells a story about the past. A time capsule. The first book for children by renowned artist and writer Lauren Redniss will get readers thinking about the times they are living through and how their world will be remembered in ages to come. It will also spark creativity, inviting young people...

"After years of no contact, former friends Alix, Ben, Zara, and Dean meet up at their old school to keep a longstanding promise: to open a memory box they left there when they were thirteen. But there is a gaping hole--their friend Millie has died. Secrets tumble out and old feelings rise to the surface as they dredge up the past. Can they save the friendships that once meant everything to them, or is it time to let go and say goodbye?" -- publisher...

When an item from a time capsule discovered in the foundation of a local church goes missing and a young woman is murdered, aspiring novelist Olivia Limoges investigates with the help of her fellow writers.

"Maggie is a natural on the radio, but she's still learning how to play the ratings game. Her big guest star is self-proclaimed oracle Madame Chantel, whose on-air 'chats' with the dead are the talk of Cypress Grove--until Chantel makes some grim predictions at a séance and one of the town's most beloved citizens is found murdered. Meanwhile, WYME is busy promoting the opening of a fifty-year-old time capsule. But the more Maggie learns about what...

Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.

"The Aldens find a hidden time capsule! Inside is a journal with clues to a treasure hunt. Who wrote the journal? And after a hundred years, can the Boxcar Children find the treasure?"--Back cover.