Nobody “Bod” Owens, raised by ghosts after his family was murdered, defeats the man Jack and the secret society of the Jacks of All Trades.

Will Halloway’s father, Charles, discovers that laughter and joy are the weapons against Mr.

After nuclear war destroys Earth, one family escapes to Mars by rocket.

Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross gets her revenge when she shoots Tom Chaney, the man who killed her father, but the gun’s recoil throws her into a snake pit, where she is bitten.

Chester Cricket, who accidentally rode a picnic basket from Connecticut to New York’s Times Square subway station, becomes famous for playing music and saves the Bellini family’s struggling newsstand.

Hanna Schmitz, a former Auschwitz guard serving a life sentence, learns to read in prison using tapes recorded by Michael Berg, her former teenage lover.

Jack Torrance is killed when the Overlook’s boiler explodes, destroying the hotel.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a murderer with a superhuman sense of smell, creates a perfume from the scents of murdered young women that makes everyone adore him, saving him from execution.

Yuri Zhivago, the doctor and poet whose life was torn apart by the Russian Revolution and civil war, dies of a heart attack on a Moscow tram in 1929.

Margaret Hale, who has inherited a fortune from her family friend Mr.