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Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret - he posseses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this sinister character... View details
The moon shone in the rocking horse’s eye, and in the mouse’s eye, too, when Tolly fetched it out from under his pillow to see. The clock went tick-tock, and in the stillness he thought he heard littl...
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Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Game of Thrones fans will love the New York Times bestselling Abhorsen series. Sabriel, the first installment in the trilogy, launched critically acclaimed author Garth Nix onto the fantasy scene as a rising sta... View details
THE RABBIT HAD been run over minutes before. Its pink eyes were glazed and blood stained its clean white fur. Unnaturally clean fur, for it had just escaped from a bath. It still smelt faintly of lave...
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MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she's your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks . . . until something extraordinary ... View details
It gets crazy hot in the South in the summer, but it's worth it to have such short, mild winters. I like most all seasons and climes. I can get into an overcast drizzly autumn day—great for curling up...
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Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and she was supposed to be one of the most Talented among them. But Tamsin's magic never showed up. Now seventeen, Tamsin attends boarding school in Manhattan, far from her family. But when a handsome ... View details
"TWENTY MORE MINUTES, Hector," I say, "and I'm free of this hellcrater." Hector, whose tawny eyes flared open when I spoke, now only flashes his needlelike teeth at me as he yawns. He blinks once, the...
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The odious Jeanette Sobriquet is dead and her granddaughter, Fizzy, is too relieved to grieve. Unfortunately for her, when Fizzy announces her refusal to attend the abusive woman's funeral, her life becomes a living nightmare. Now, she has demons, gh... View details
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A THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER CAROLINE MITCHELL
'One of the best opening chapters I've ever read' - ANGELA MARSONS
'Terrifying, mysterious and suspenseful. A brilliant read.' - PATRICIA GIBNEY
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From USA Today bestselling author J. Saman comes a brand new Kindle-melting romance about one of Boston's most notorious billionaire bachelors and the woman who flips his entire world upside down.
I've been dreading this for a year.
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“Oh, Oliver…” Christa Foreman greets me with a slow once-over, her pastel-pink lips curling up into an impish grin. She’s aptly named, because our senior class president was no joke when it came to st...
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From the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man's struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression.
"A powerfully moving story."-Chicago Daily News
In 1932, American's dr... View details
I reached out to the bedside table, stopped the alarm, snapped on the shaded study lamp, and lay back on my pillow. The chill of early October had sharpened during the night, and the discomfort of bei...
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It's aspiring actress meeting photographer, femme meeting butch in this light-hearted lesbian romance set in Hollywood. Aspiring actress Amanda Clark and photographer Michelle Osinski are two women burned by love and not looking to test the fire aga... View details
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As with any creative project, there were a lot of people who had a hand in bringing this novella into existence, mainly Erin and Astrid, who kicked my butt when I wanted to end the sto...
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"A suspenseful roller-coaster ride."-Karin Slaughter
"Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense."-Harlan Coben
He knows everything about you-including the first place you'll hide.
On a warm summer night in one of Boston's working-class n... View details
D.D. had been a Boston PD detective for nearly twelve years now. She’d started out investigating traffic fatalities and drug-related homicides before graduating to such major media events as the disco...
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