All the numinous events hidden safely from ridicule, criticism, and disbelief bubbled up from deep in my heart when my childhood friend died in 1985. The voices, visions, sighting, and apparitions throughout my life clamored acknowledgement. Gossamer threads anchored to my life fabric at various points in my life told vignettes of mysteries about which I wondered. After he started school, he changed from a happy little boy to one depressed and afraid. Though I asked, he would not tell me what happened, only snippets plus a warning to me before I started school. He was particularly afraid to go to the outhouse alone because of a phantom. We had appendectomies within a week in 1947 and spent five days in the hospital together. He was in the children's ward and I in the women's ward. The epiphany after Johnny's death was the most wonderful and horrendous event of my life. It answered questions for which I needed answers plus information I did not contemplate. When his spirit came to me, explained and verified his words and actions in childhood, it was apparent all I had been a witness to needed to be revealed. The mysteries disclosed must be open to others. Just as I needed more information, some other soul may need the information I can offer. This is my purpose.

Latro, a mercenary soldier, lost his memory after a head wound and must continually rediscover his identity. However, he is now able to converse with supernatural creatures which is both a triumph and a danger.

This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who was fighting in Greece when he received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory but gave him in return the ability to see and converse with the supernatural creatures, the gods and goddesses, who invisibly inhabit the classical landscape. Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER May Appleby has always wondered where she came from. She loves her adoptive parents, but wants to know where she gets her dark skin and her long black hair. Could she be of native Indian heritage? Her friend Lee, who has always been proud of his own native background, believes she is. Then one day a mysterious white mist transports May and Lee back in time, to the land of their ancestors: the shores of Lake Michigan in the 1830s. The white man is settling the land, wiping out the forest--and threatening the very existence of May and Lee's tribe. By the time they discover the secret meaning of their journey to the past and the message they must bring back to the present, it may be too late. May and Lee may be trapped in the past forever.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

A lost island wreathed in whispering mists, two mysterious incidents, and a quest for the truth. Ajay is desperately searching for his friend and crush, Oleander, who has gone missing. All his suspicions and all his investigations come up empty, and he’s left with the fear that Oleander is dead. But he has one clue: she once told him of an island that no one can remember. Could this island in the mist have the answers to what happened to Oleander? And what about the girl Ajay meets who seems to know all there is to know about the island, but has lost most of her memories? Unlocking those memories could help both teens to find the truth.