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Another Place You've Never Been
by Rebecca Kauffman
A novel in stories illuminates the ways in which families are created by being torn apart, in a debut that explores the intersection of human experience against a backdrop of the minutiae of everyday life as experienced by a Buffalo, New York hostess.
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The Best American Short Stories 2016
by Junot Díaz
In the latest edition of an annual anthology, the guest editor and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of This Is How You Lose Her collects 20 outstanding examples of top-selected American short stories
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The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
by John Pipkin
In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, Caroline Ainsworth, grief-stricken after her astronomer father's suicide, reluctantly takes up his search for a mythological planet and reconnects with the man she loves before her home is plunged into a violent rebellion.
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The Boat Rocker
by Ha Jin
Rendered famous for his explosive anti-Communist expose, a fiercely principled Chinese expatriate reporter endures an excruciating assignment investigating his own ex-wife, an unscrupulous novelist who has become a pawn of the Chinese government.
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The Boy Is Back
by Meg Cabot
A viral scandal draws notorious celebrity golfer Reed Stewart back to his tiny Indiana hometown, where he reunites with small-business owner Becky Flowers in ways that challenge their perceptions about each other.
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Cakewalk
by Rita Mae Brown
A post-World War I tale set in the Maryland community of Six of One finds residents split between belief systems on the Mason Dixon line, where free-thinking sisters Louise and Julia Hunsenmier and their indelible friends explore small-town sins and rivalries.
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The Comet Seekers
by Helen Sedgwick
Drawn to each other when they meet on a remote research base in Antarctica, an Irish astronomer and a French chef forge a bond over their respective personal tragedies and the unknown, centuries-old connections among their ancestors.
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Crossing the Horizon
by Laurie Notaro
Soar back to the fearless 1920s when three women, including the daughter of an earl, a former cigar girl turned society darling and a beauty pageant contestant, all vie to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
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The Eastern Shore
by Ward S. Just
Pursuing journalism and rising to the position of city editor in spite of his judge father's disapproval, Ned exposes the criminal past of a town haberdasher with ramifications that haunt him throughout the rest of his career.
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From This Day Forward
by Lauraine Snelling
The women of Blessing trigger unexpected events when they play matchmaker between a newcomer with long-suffering head nurse Deborah, who has been in an on-again, off-again relationship with a man who will not commit.
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A Gambler's Anatomy
by Jonathan Lethem
An international backgammon hustler, who has amassed a fortune through psychic tomfoolery, develops a large tumor on his face that compromises his vision and eventually threatens his life, forcing him to pursue an experimental surgery and contemplate existential questions.
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Hag-Seed
by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
A psychologically charged story inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, reimagined by the award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, follows the retribution plot of a deposed artistic director who teaches prison inmates while consulting with a fantasy child who has taken the place of the daughter he lost years earlier
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An Irish Country Love Story
by Patrick Taylor
A romantic winter season in 1967 Ballybucklebo finds its citizens discovering young and mature love while flocking around their doctor, Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, whose longtime practice is threatened by an unexpected turn of events.
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Meantime
by Katharine Noel
Despite being raised in a non-traditional, free-spirited household, Claire finds that she is uncomfortable of the close relationship between her husband and his ex.
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The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
In a contemporary black community, 17-year-old Nadia Turner mourns the suicide of her mother, leading her to take up with the local's pastor's son; but when she gets pregnant, the pregnancy and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.
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Paris for One and Other Stories
by Jojo Moyes
An anthology by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Me Before You and After You includes the title story, in which a girl abandoned during a romantic mini-vacation gathers the courage to embark on an independent tour of Paris.
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Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult
Hesitating to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple who has demanded that a white nurse assist them, a black nurse is placed on trial in the tragic aftermath and is aided by a white public defender with whom she begins questioning their beliefs as the case becomes more racially charged.
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Sun Born
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
An old enemy has returned to Cahokia, an ancient civilization near the site of modern-day St. Louis, putting Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body of man, and his sister, Lady Night Shadow Star, at odds over their involvement in the fight.
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The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness
by Maddie Dawson
When the search for her birth mother leads her to successful salon owner Lindy McIntyre, whom she believes is her sister, and then to Phoebe Mullen, a guarded, hard-talking woman convinced she has nothing to offer, Nina Popkin and these two woman form a messy, unpredictable family that is nothing like she pictured, but is exactly what she needs.
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Today Will Be Different
by Maria Semple
Initiating small changes that she hopes will reverse negative patterns in her life, Eleanor Flood is derailed by her family members' unethical practices before an encounter with a former colleague triggers dramas that reveal a buried secret.
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The Terranauts
by T. C. Boyle
Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they must protect from skeptics who would sabotage the mission.
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Two by Two
by Nicholas Sparks
The seemingly charmed life of a Charlotte family man abruptly tumbles around him, leaving him an unemployed single father who embarks on a new reality that tests his skills and emotional resources beyond his imagining.
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The Wangs vs. the World
by Jade Chang
A wealthy but fractured Chinese family loses everything in the financial crisis before embarking on a haphazard but ultimately redemptive journey across America as part of an effort to reclaim ancestral lands in China.
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Winter Storms
by Elin Hilderbrand
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy finds the Quinn family's efforts to reunite and prepare for a long-anticipated wedding during the Christmas season overshadowed by a health scare, addiction problems and commitment issues.
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Assassins
by Jim Eldridge
London, 1921. Prominent Cabinet minister Lord Amersham has been shot dead outside his Regents Park home and DCI Paul Stark is under pressure to produce a quick result in one of the most high-profile cases Scotland Yard has ever faced. The first in a new mystery series featuring Winston Churchill and King George V.
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The Candidate
by Lis W. Wiehl
While covering the presidential election campaign, reporter Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz has an unnaturally strange relationship with his glamorous billionaire wife and decides to investigate, but when people start dying, she must discover if the senator is what he seems--or a threat to national security.
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Coffin Road
by Peter May
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, homicide detective George Gunn investigates three mysterious, interconnected crimes.
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Crepe Factor
by Laura Childs
When a hated restaurant critic is murdered in the Winter Market, scrapbook-shop owner Carmela Bertrand must prove the innocence of prime suspect Quigg Brevard, a former flame, against the approval of her current beau, Detective Edgar Babcock.
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Death of a Toy Soldier
by Barbara Early
While managing her father's vintage toyshop in East Aurora, New York, Liz McCall must play a deadly game with a cold-blooded killer who is trying to frame her and her father for the murder of a customer in possession of some priceless antique toys
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A Dreadful Past
by Peter Turnbull
The sighting of a vase in an antiques shop leads to a 20-year-old murder case being reopened and as George Hennessey and his team try to close in on a mysterious gang of killers, the discovery of a new body throws them off track
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Escape Clause
by John Sandford
Virgil Flowers' investigation into the theft of two rare Siberian tigers from the Minnesota zoo is complicated by a summer visit from his girlfriend's sister, who would seduce him.
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The Fall Guy
by James Lasdun
A couple and their troubled cousin are caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession and revenge during a scalding, psychologically complex summer spent in their idyllic mountaintop home.
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Friday on My Mind
by Nicci French
In Nicci's French's thrilling fifth book, London psychotherapist Frieda Klein herself becomes the prime suspect in a murder. With few options, Frieda goes on the run to save herself and try to uncover the truth.
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Ghost Times Two
by Carolyn G. Hart
Assigned to guide the spirit of a deceased young man to the next life, Bailey Ruth Raeburn assists her charge in his efforts to prove the innocence of his girlfriend, who has been falsely accused of murdering a manipulative senior partner.
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The Girl from Venice
by Martin Cruz Smith
A new standalone novel by the award-winning author of Gorky Park follows a turbulent love affair between a fisherman and a Jewish woman on the run in occupied 1945 La Serenissima.
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High Heat
by Richard Castle
A journalist's execution by a New York City group pledging fealty to ISIS turns personal when the killers announce that their next victim will be NYPD Captain Nikki Heat's husband, a case that is further complicated by glimpses of a woman Nikki recognizes as her long-dead mother.
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IQ
by Joe Ide
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve crimes the LAPD disregards, in a novel that has been already optioned to be developed into a TV series.
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Kill or Be Killed: Thrillers
by James Patterson
An anthology of four faced-paced thrillers collects four BookShots suspense stories: "The Trial," "Little Black Dress" "Heist," and "The Women's War."
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Little Boy Blue
by M. J. Arlidge
Detective Helen Grace investigates an elusive serial killer who navigates a world in Southampton, England, where disguises and discretion are the norm, and where no one wants to come forward to say what they saw or what they know.
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Livia Lone
by Barry Eisler
This dark thriller introduces cop Livia Lone, who works in a Seattle PD sex crimes unit. She's overcome a horrible past -- but has not been able to get beyond the need for vengeance.
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The Lost Boy
by Camilla Lackberg
A latest psychological thriller by the internationally best-selling author of The Hidden Child finds detective Patrik Hedstrom delving into the private life of a murdered financial director before learning that the victim's high-school sweetheart hides a dangerous secret
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Missing
by James Patterson
Craig Gisto and his elite team at Private Sydney are tasked with finding Eric Mossùthe CEO of a high-profile research company, who has had all trace of his existence wiped away.
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A Most Extraordinary Pursuit
by Juliana Gray
Reluctantly accompanying the most corrupt bachelor in early 20th-century London on a quest to the island of Crete to find the recently departed Duke of Olympia's missing archaeologist heir, secretary Emmeline Rose Truelove finds herself questioning her perceptions, her heart and the motives of men.
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The Moth Catcher
by Ann Cleeves
When a house sitter is found dead at a Valley Farm country home, DI Vera Stanhope, accompanied by detectives Holly and Joe, discover a second body in the house's attic before realizing that the community keeps bizarre secrets. Part of a series that inspired the hit public TV series Vera.
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Murder, She Wrote: Hook, Line, and Murder
by Jessica Fletcher
When Darryl Jepson breaks out of prison, his lawyer and the sheriff's wife goes missing, Jessica Fletcher must wade through lies, deceit and ulterior motives to find her friend and the truth.
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Night Watch
by Iris Johansen
When the surgeon who made it possible for her to see goes missing, Kendra Michaels recruits government agent Adam Lynch to accompany her on a trail that leads to the snowy California mountains, where the discovery of one of the doctor's brutally murdered colleagues reveals the work of a killer.
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No Witness but the Moon
by Suzanne Chazin
A tense stand-off between Hispanic police officer Jimmy Vega and an undocumented immigrant leads to a horrible mistake, and the discovery of links between the immigrant and the brutal unsolved murder of Vega's mother.
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The Obsidian Chamber
by Douglas J. Preston
The best-selling authors of Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities present a latest entry in the series featuring Special Agent Pendergast.
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Order to Kill
by Vince Flynn
A follow-up to the best-selling The Survivor finds anti-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp chasing false leads throughout the world to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into terrorist hands before posing as an American ISIS recruit in Russia, where he uncovers a catastrophic plot
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Precious and Grace
by Alexander McCall Smith
Helping Mr. Polopetsi with an entanglement in a pyramid scheme and Charlie with a dubious romance, an unassisted Precious Ramotswe tackles the case of a young Canadian woman who would find a long-lost acquaintance from her Botswana childhood.
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The Queen's Accomplice
by Susan Elia MacNeal
American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II and takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the Ripper--and who targets female intelligence agents.
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Rundown: A Pratt & Ellis Mystery
by Rick Blechta
Toronto homicide detectives Pratt and Ellis are brought in to investigate a series of hit-and-runs. Someone seems to be trying to kill random people using stolen cars. The detectives try to find any connections between the victims that might indicate something else at work. What they discover is beyond their wildest imagining.
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Seduced
by Randy Wayne White
When Florida's orange industry becomes threatened by infestation and genetic manipulation, Hannah Smith finds herself at the center of a violent competition to track down untainted original seeds descended from those planted by the Spanish conquistadors centuries earlier.
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Sex, Lies, and Serious Money
by Stuart Woods
New York City cop-turned-Manhattan law firm rainmaker Stone Barrington tackles a high-suspense case.
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Smile and Be a Villain
by Jeanne M. Dams
After discovering a body on a precipitous hill path while vacationing on the island of Alderney, Dorothy and her husband Alan, a retired police detective, are determined to find out whether the death was an accident or something more sinister.
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Strong Cold Dead
by Jon Land
Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong races against time to obtain a deadly toxin that looks like a promising cancer treatment, but is also being hotly pursued by ISIS for use in an unstoppable weapon of mass destruction.
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A Terrible Beauty
by Tasha Alexander
Organizing a holiday in Greece to distract a heartbroken Jeremy, Lady Emily is shocked when a man from her past, believed long dead, greets the party and reveals he is being stalked by a murderous antiques trader.
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The Trespasser
by Tana French
An ongoing campaign to intimidate her out of the Murder Squad complicates Detective Antoinette Conway's high-pressure investigation into the death of a highly polished and unsettlingly familiar woman whose demise reveals a growing number of secrets.
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A Very Pukka Murder : The First Maharajah Mystery
by Arjin Gaind
1909. In the small princely state of Rajpore a British Resident is found dead. The Maharaja of Rajpore, Sikander Singh, who has a keen passion for mysteries and fancies himself somewhat of a detective, rushes to the Residency to investigate the scene of the crime.
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The Whistler
by John Grisham
A follow-up to the highly successful Rogue Lawyer combines the author's signature legal savvy and high-suspense storytelling, in a latest thriller that pits an unforgettable cast of characters against unexpected twists and turns.
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Without Mercy
by Jefferson Bass
Investigating the most brutal and bizarre case of his career, forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton and his assistant, Miranda, are shocked by the prison escape of serial killer Nick Satterfield, who would destroy everything Brockton cares about.
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Do You Want to Start a Scandal
by Tessa Dare
In order to avoid a forced marriage, Charlotte Highwood must uncover the identities of the two lovers involved in a scandalous library tryst the night of the Parkhurst ball, proving that she wasn't involved.
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The Earl
by Katharine Ashe
Determined to unmask Lady Justice, the rabble-rousing pamphleteer, Colin Gray, the new Earl of Egremoor, embarks on a dangerous mission that brings him face-to-face with the smart, big-hearted and passionate woman who vows to teach him a lesson in humility and love.
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Hero in the Highlands
by Suzanne Enoch
A hardened army major, Gabriel Forrester unexpectedly inherits a dukedom and huge estate in Scotland where he matches wits with Fiona Blackstock, the woman overseeing his new holdings who has her own ideas how a home should feel.
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Sunrise Canyon
by Janet Dailey
In the heart of Arizona's Sonora Desert, a little girl in need of her father, a woman in need of forgiveness and a war hero in need of love come together to create a family.
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The Blood Mirror
by Brent Weeks
In the conclusion to the New York Times best-selling series, Gavin and Kip Guile, Karris White and Teia all fight to prevent a tainted empire from falling before the White King's armies.
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Closer to the Chest
by Mercedes Lackey
When a ruthless blackmailer begins targeting several families visiting the Court over the Midwinter Holidays to the extent that a young man commits suicide and a daughter is kidnapped, Mags and Amily risk everything to track down the culprit and bring him to justice.
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Crosstalk
by Connie Willis
When a technological breakthrough enables romantic partners to achieve empathy via a simple outpatient procedure, Briddley Flannigan delightedly undergoes the treatment in the hopes of becoming closer to her fiancé, only to find herself hearing the thoughts of one of the tech nerds in her office.
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Firewalk
by Chris Roberson
A modern-day supernatural crime thriller set in a fictional west coast city, from the New York Times bestselling author and co-creator of the comic book-turned hit TV show, iZombie.
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The Tourist
by Robert Dickinson
A woman's disappearance on a tour-bus trip to a mall turns into a gripping, suspenseful trip through time.
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The Apartment: A Horror Story
by S. L. Grey
A haunting thriller about a troubled married couple whose vacation to Paris leads them into a nightmare.
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Days
by Shin Towada
Six new stories from the Tokyo Ghoul universe follow a one-time regular college student, Ken Kaneki, who turns into a half-human, half-ghoul hybrid after a violent encounter and must exist trapped between the two worlds.
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The Fall of the House of Cabal
by Jonathan L. Howard
When he comes into a possession of a vital clue that may lead him to the cure for dead, necromancer Johannes Cabal and his companion's vampire brother, a devil and a criminologist walk into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors.
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Feedback
by Mira Grant
Twenty years after the Rising (the start of an infection that caused people to have a single uncontrollable impulse to feed) a team of scrappy reporters relentlessly pursue dangerous truths on the presidential campaign trail.
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The Graveyard Apartment
by Mariko Koike
After moving to a new apartment complex next to a cemetery, a young Japanese family experiences strange and terrifying occurrences that send the other residents fleeing their homes, ultimately leaving them alone with a dark, evil something, or someone, residing in the basement.
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The Mirror Sisters
by V. C. Andrews
Made to act, look and feel truly the same by their perfectionist mother, identical twins Haylee and Kaylee leave the their sheltered, homeschooled life to attend public high school, where their introduction to the dating scene changes everything.
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The Motion of Puppets
by Keith Donohue
An adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth follows the experiences of a Quebec translator whose acrobat wife takes shelter in a mysterious toy shop, only to be turned into a puppet and placed in a magical circle of similarly transformed puppets who come to life at night and struggle to regain human form.
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Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy
by Jay R. Bonansinga
Beginning a massive project to refurbish the railroad between their shelter and Atlanta, Lilly Caul and her ragtag band of fellow survivors return from work to discover that Woodbury has been brutally attacked by unknown assailants.
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Six Scary Stories
by Stephen King
Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology.
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Stranded
by Bracken Macleod
Forced by an apocalyptic storm into freezing, fog-enveloped waters, the crew of a ship without functioning navigation or communication equipment begins falling prey to a mysterious illness, forcing deckhand Noah Cabot and his remaining able-bodied shipmates to begin a treacherous journey across the ice.
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Yesternight
by Cat Winters
A haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core: A young child psychologist steps off a train in a foggy seaside town where she begins to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation.
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