Max, a seventh grader, is mercilessly picked on by his school's bullies and by his principal. When his parents inform Max that they're moving at the end of the week, he takes the opportunity to exact several forms of creative revenge on his many tormenters. When it subsequently turns out that the Keebles aren't leaving town after all, little Max is left to the mercy of those he's just humiliated.

A mother-daughter con team attempts to take advantage of a tobacco tycoon.

When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.

"The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn for the unexpected when an impulse compels Andy ... to invite his mother Joyce ... on an 8-day, 3,000-mile journey across the country. The farther they go, the closer they get ... [and] prove they have more in common than Andy ever imagined"--Container.

Set in a post-nuclear war, dystopian Los Angeles, an ex-boxer, action-movie star stumbles out of the desert suffering amnesia and becomes involved with a porn star who wants to make a movie about the end of the world as others around him try to overthrow the government and prepare for an apocalypse.