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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong... more
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Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told... until now.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every... more
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The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion
On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor's kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But the Fleming family doesn't have a... more
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Road Ends by Mary Lawson
He listened as their voices faded into the rumble of the falls. He was thinking about the lynx. The way it had looked at him, acknowledging his existence, then passing out of his life like smoke. . . It was the first thing—the only thing—that had managed, if only for a moment, to... more
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One by One by Ruth Ware
Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. But what happens when that company is eight of your coworkers…and you... more
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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
A Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist and #1 bestseller, The Wonder is the latest masterpiece from Man Booker Prize?nominated author Emma Donoghue.The Toronto Star praises The Wonder as ?a thoroughly enjoyable read from one of the country?s premier storytellers.? Emma Donoghue takes the reader back... more
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A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan
The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes listeners to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond.Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching... more
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The Stars Are Fire: A novel by Anita Shreve
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based on the true story of the largest... more
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The Magic Misfits (Magic Misfits, Bk 1) by Neil Patrick Harris
When street magician Carter runs away, he never expects to find friends and magic in a sleepy New England town. But like any good trick, things change instantly as greedy B.B. Bosso and his crew of crooked carnies arrive to steal anything and everything they can get their sticky fingers... more
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You Will Know Me: A Novel by Megan Abbott
One of the Best Books of 2016--NPR, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Elle, Thrillist, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Self and Kirkus
The audacious new novel about family and ambition from "one of the best living mystery writers" (Grantland) and bestselling,... more
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Desire Lines: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train comes a novel about friendship and the memories that haunt us.On the night of her high school graduation, Kathryn Campbell sits around a bonfire with her four closest friends, including the beautiful but erratic Jennifer. ?I?ll be... more
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The Wrong Girl (Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse, Bk 1) by Donis Casey
They say a life well-lived is the best revenge...
Blanche Tucker longs to escape her drop-dead dull life in tiny Boynton, Oklahoma. Then dashing Graham Peyton roars into town. Posing as a film producer, Graham convinces the ambitious but naive teenager to run away with him to a glamorous new... more
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The Woman Inside: A Novel by E. G. Scott
An impossible-to-put-down domestic thriller about secrets and revenge, told from the perspectives of a husband and wife who are the most perfect, and the most dangerous, match for each other
Rebecca didn?t know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with... more
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The Second Story (Magic Misfits, Bk 2) by Neil Patrick Harris
Growing up in an orphanage, Leila was bullied for being different. She turned her hardship into skill by becoming an escape artist -- a valuable trait when you belong to a group of magical best friends. But when a famous psychic comes to town, Leila and her pals can't escape the big mystery... more
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All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson
Harry Ackerson has always considered his step-mother Alice to be sexy and beautiful, in an “other worldly” way. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years.
Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead... more
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Ollie's Odyssey by William Joyce
From the creator of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and The Guardians of Childhood comes an grand adventure of valor, friendship, and a look into the mysterious world of favorite toys.
In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.
There is the Code of the Toys,... more
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Mrs. by Caitlin Macy
In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her... more
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The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third by Neil Patrick Harris
The third magical book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Misfits series from acclaimed and wildly popular celebrity Neil Patrick Harris!
Theo Stein-Meyer loves being part of the Magic Misfits. Armed with his trusty violin bow, he completes the team with his levitation skills,... more
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The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve.
Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more -- a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne... more
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Gwendy's Magic Feather (Button Box, Bk 2) by Richard Chizmar
Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out.
In Washington, DC, thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn’t be... more
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The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope
In a normal family, in a normal house, on a normal street, everything is about to go horribly wrong…
Today was meant to be an ordinary day.
A perfect summer morning, the weatherman predicting record highs. The children getting ready for school, five-year-old George packing his... more
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The Fourth Suit (Magic Misfits, Bk 4) by Neil Patrick Harris
Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. She's tough as nails, she's fiercely loyal, and she's smart as a whip. But she can be a harsh critic, which has put her position with the Magic Misfits on the rocks, even as the threat of the group's longtime enemy Kalagan looms... more
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The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
"A ripping adventure [with] a show-stopping finale."--Wall Street Journal
"The stuff of legends."--Attica Locke
"Powerful, sly, and often charming."--Daniel Woodrell
A New York Times Editors' Choice pick
The poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier... more
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Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her... more
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Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan
From the bestselling author of Random Passage and Waiting for Time comes this masterful, engrossing story of the last surviving Beothuk, a World War II deserter and a recently widowed English woman at the end of the twentieth century.During World War II, well into the Battle of the North... more
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Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in the swimming hole, they embark on a hero’s journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico. But returning home to Texas turns into an odyssey that would rival Homer’s original tale.
With the supernatural aid of ghostly La... more
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Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy by Kate Swenson
When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability.
At first, Kate experienced the grief of broken... more
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The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets... Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She... more
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The Dead Lands: A Novel by Benjamin Percy
In Benjamin Percy's new thriller, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts such as the Sanctuary-the remains of St. Louis-a shielded community that owes its... more
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Nuts to You by Lynne Rae Perkins
How far would you go for a friend? In Nuts to You, the funny and moving illustrated novel by Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins, two squirrels go very far indeed to save a friend who has been snatched up by a hawk.
Nuts to You “begs to be read aloud. Another completely... more
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Gwendy's Final Task (Button Box, Bk 3) by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction.
Years later, the button box entered... more
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The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
Brett and Kelly have always toed the line between supportive sisters and bitter rivals. Growing up, Brett was the problem child, in the shadow of the brilliant and beautiful Kelly. In adulthood, all that has changed. Kelly is a struggling single mother and Brett has skyrocketed to such meteoric... more
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The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
Hollywood, 1914. Frances Marion, a young writer desperate for a break, meets “America’s Sweetheart,” Mary Pickford, already making a name for herself both on and off the screen with her golden curls and lively spirit. Together, these two women will take the movie business by... more
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Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
People don’t just disappear without a trace...
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing.
Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community.
Are these... more
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The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, Bk 2) by Rene Denfeld
A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry... more
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Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch
Sarah Walters, the narrator of GIRLS IN TRUCKS, is a reluctant Camellia Society debutante. She has always felt ill-fitted to the rococo ways of Southern womanhood and family, and is anxious to shake the bonds of her youth. Still, she follows the traditional path laid out for her. This is... more
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Lost & Found (Rocky Pelligrino, Bk 1) by Jacqueline Sheehan
A poignant and unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on . . . with the help of one not-so-little dog
Rocky's husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor . . . and Rocky's world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping... more
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Hi...
?One of the most remarkable books I?ve ever read. It?s truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid.??Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR ? The Wall Street Journal ? Bloomberg Business ? Bookish
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE FIRST BOOK AWARD ?... more
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Shorecliff: A Novel by Ursula DeYoung
"Divine....A delicious summer read." ---Elin Hilderbrand, author of Beautiful Day
Spending the summer of 1928 in a big house on the Maine coast with his 10 older cousins and a gaggle of aunts and uncles seems like a dream come true to lonely 13-year-old Richard.
But as he wanders through the... more
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The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she’s home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran -- teaching them how to... more
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Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman
One young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town... As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back... more
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Grace Is Gone: A Novel by Emily Elgar
From the bestselling author of If You Knew Her comes this harrowing tale of suspense?a story ripped from today?s headlines?of a tight-knit English community, who?s rocked by the murder of a mother and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie concealed beneath a... more
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Behind the Red Door by Megan Collins
When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern’s husband is sure it’s because of Astrid’s famous kidnapping—and equally famous return—twenty years ago, but Fern has no... more
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Anyone but Ivy Pocket by Caleb Krisp
A darkly whimsical and wickedly funny tale about a twelve-year-old maid who finds herself at the very heart of a conspiracy involving mischief, ghosts, and intrigue. Just right for fans of Lemony Snicket and Neil Gaiman, Anyone but Ivy Pocket is the first book in a four-book series and is... more
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Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson’s epic tale -- told through three unforgettable points of view -- is a masterful exploration of how love, determination, and hope can change a person's fate.
Kansas, 2065: Adri has been handpicked to live on Mars. But... more
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Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, Bk 5) by Robert Galbraith
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough -- who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years... more
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The Double by Jose Saramago
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that... more
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Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith
An unpredictable, poignant, and captivating tale for readers of all ages, by the critically acclaimed author of Only Forward.There are a million stories in the world. Most are perfectly ordinary.This one? isn?t.Hannah Green actually thinks her story is more mundane than most. But she?s about to... more
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Gwendy's Button Box: Includes bonus story "The Music Room" by Stephen King & Rich...
The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told... until now.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every... more
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The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend.
One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the... more
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Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY meets 1984. In the near-future, all decision-making is automated, until one man makes a brazen choice of his own, with global consequences.
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages... more
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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago.
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and... more
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The Last Wife by Karen Hamilton
Two women. A dying wish. And a web of lies that will bring their world crashing down.
Nina and Marie were best friends -- until Nina was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before she died, Nina asked Marie to fulfill her final wishes. But her mistake was in thinking Marie was someone she... more
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Willodeen by Katherine Applegate & Charles Santoso (Illustrator)
The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember . . .
Eleven-year-old Willodeen adores creatures of all kinds, but her favorites are the most unlovable beasts in the land: strange beasts known as “screechers.” The villagers of Perchance call them pests, even... more
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The Chain by Adrian McKinty
You just dropped off your child at the bus stop.A panicked stranger calls your phone.Your child has been kidnapped.The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger.The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child - within 24... more
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Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Trees can’t tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . .
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood “wishtree”—people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other... more
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Holly (Holly Gibney, Bk 3) by Stephen King
Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders... more
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Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly
She didn't run from her dark past. She moved in.
For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across... more
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Six Scary Stories by Stephen King
Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology.
Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The... more
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Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, Bk 1) by Gennifer Choldenko
Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she’s denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping... more
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Odder by Katherine Applegate & Charles Santoso (Illustrator)
Meet Odder, the Queen of Play:
Nobody has her moves.
She doesn’t just swim to the bottom,
she dive-bombs.
She doesn’t just somersault,
she triple-doughnuts.
She doesn’t just ride the waves,
she makes them.
Odder spends her days off the coast of central California,... more
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Pony by R. J. Palacio
An enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide.
Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three menacing horsemen who take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared, and alone,... more
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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher... 2000: Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and... more
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Crazy Like a Fox (Fox Crossing, Maine, Bk 2) by Melinda Metz
Return to the charming mountain town of Fox Crossing, Maine -- where nature lovers are welcome, the locals are friendly, and a single glimpse of a legendary fox can change your life forever...
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO LIVE HERE
Most people think The Fox is just a folk tale,... more
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The Dog Who Came For Christmas by Sue Pethick
Renee Richardson’s list of Christmas wishes includes: a few more clients at her hair salon, a few less unsuitable dates set up by her father, and some new friends for her troubled young son, Kieran. Little does she know that Kieran has already made a pal in their new town . . . a scrappy... more
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A High Sierra Christmas: An untold tale of Jeremiah Johnson (Volume 2) by Mark Stephe...
HOLIDAY EDITION: 'A High Sierra Christmas' is a tale of the West, narrated in the 'old west' style. It's a story of Jeremiah Johnson and his 'later in life' adventures in the High Sierra-Nevada mountain range of California. Two old cowboys, looking for gold, seek out Johnson and ask him to... more
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The Great Santa Search by Jeff Guinn
This follow-up to Jeff Guinn's bestselling holiday favorites The Autobiography of Santa Claus and How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas takes readers on a sleigh ride through the history of Christmas in America that lands smack-dab in 2006, as a new reality TV show threatens to destroy the true spirit... more
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The Twelve Days of Snowball (Snowball, Bk 2) by Kristen McKanagh
Just in time for the holidays, author Kristen McKanagh gifts readers with the latest heartwarming novel featuring lovable, irresistible, mischievous feline ball of fluff, Snowball. By now, the kitten we met in Snowball’s Christmas is all grown up, greeting guests at her Victorian... more
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Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris
Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories from the author of HOLY FOOLS and FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE, the... more
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The Return by Rachel Harrison
Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return -- except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with... more