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The Fall of Koli by M.R. Carey
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Fall of Koli is the third and final novel in the breathtakingly original Rampart trilogy - set in a strange and deadly world of our own making.The world that is lost will come back to haunt us . . .Koli has come a long way since being exiled from his small village of Mythen Rood...Categorized as:
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![Shadow Children (Boxed Set): Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors; Among the Betrayed; Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix]()
Shadow Children (Boxed Set): Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors; Among the Betrayed; Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsImagine a world where families are allowed only two children. Illegal third children -- shadow children -- must live in hiding. If they are discovered, there is only one punishment: Death... -
![Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed]()
Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA neglected 12-year-old boy does nothing to report the death of his mother in order to compete in a spelling bee. A tragic coming-of-age tale of horror and drama in the setting of a hot New Orleans summer. "Original, touching coming of age." ~Jack Ketchum, author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR "With OF FOSTER HOMES & FLIES, Lutzke is firing on all cylinders. It's a lean mean emotional machine... -
![Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews]()
Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis volume features the first novels in three thrilling V.C. Andrews' series: "Heaven, Dawn, " and "Ruby"--an unprecedented hardcover collection--complete and unabridged--at an inviting price! Available... -
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![The Dream Weavers by Barbara Erskine]()
The Dream Weavers by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe brand-new, gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay!‘Warmth, depth, mystery, magic and the supernatural … such a beautiful book!’ bestselling author Santa Montefiore ‘A dazzling roller-coaster of a book that will thrill, enchant and intrigue those who love history and the supernatural’ bestselling author Alison WeirAvailable to pre-order now!Mercia,... -
![The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters]()
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes...Categorized as:
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![Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel]()
Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSix women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty."Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile.. -
![Stand by Me by Raynold Gideon]()
Stand by Me by Raynold Gideon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Different Seasons The Body, as a media tie-in for the movie starring River Phoenix, Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell... -
![Today I'm a Monster by Agnes Green, Trevor Judson]()
Today I'm a Monster by Agnes Green, Trevor Judson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Today I am a monsterI wake with a sore headI want to keep on dreamingDon't get me out of bed!.."... -
![Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns]()
Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the fabulous storytelling of our dreams to the mute passions of domestic life, Stephen Dobyns explores a full range of human experience in these narrative poems... -
![In the Scrape by James Newman, Mark Steensland]()
In the Scrape by James Newman, Mark Steensland
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMost kids dream about a new bike, a pair of top-dollar sneakers endorsed by their favorite athlete, or that totally awesome videogame everyone's raving about. But thirteen-year-old Jake and his little brother Matthew want nothing more than to escape from their abusive father... -
![Wallflower by Chad Lutzke]()
Wallflower by Chad Lutzke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter an encounter with a homeless man, a high school graduate becomes obsessed with the idea of doing heroin, challenging himself to try it just once. A bleak tale of addiction, delusion, and flowers."Bleak as hell and honestly horrific."~John Boden, author of JEDI SUMMER"Using his strong narrative, he (Lutzke) conveys the everyday realistic horror and pulls the reader right into the ugliness...Categorized as:
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![Not Me by Elise Gravel]()
Not Me by Elise Gravel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho made this mess?When dad asks who left socks all over the place, a brother and sister insist that it was "Not Me... -
![The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders]()
The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNovelette, Free online fiction.From newyorker.com“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” deals with a family in a not-too-distant future (or perhaps an alternate present or past?) that is struggling to keep up with the Joneses—which, in this society, means leasing some unusual garden ornaments... -
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![The Commandant's Daughter by Catherine Hokin]()
The Commandant's Daughter by Catherine Hokin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1933, Berlin. Ten-year-old Hanni Foss stands by her father’s side watching the torchlit procession to celebrate Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new leader. As the lights fade, she knows her safe and happy childhood is about to change forever. Practically overnight, the father she adores becomes unrecognisable, lost to his ruthless ambition to oversee an infamous concentration camp…Twelve years later... -
![The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter]()
The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in...Categorized as:
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![Devil's Pocket by John Dixon]()
Devil's Pocket by John Dixon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe follow-up to the critically acclaimed Phoenix Island, which reads like "Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the CBS TV show Intelligence.With a chip in his head and hundreds more throughout his body, sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman was turned from an orphan with impulse control issues into a super-soldier... -
![Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney]()
Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Kevin Maloney alchemizes the allure of dicey friendships, hallucinatory sex and a drug so terrifying I’m heartbroken I’ll never get to try it. Cult of Loretta captures the manic fury of Richard Brautigan writing a sequel to The Outsiders during a ketamine binge... -
![Is She for Real? by P.J. Night]()
Is She for Real? by P.J. Night
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsP.J. Night's latest installment in the spooky and spectacular Creepover series for middle-grade girls is a level 5 on the Creep-o-Meter.In Is She For Real?, Bethany has just moved to Old Warwick, a quaint old town that is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Warwick. Lady Warwick lived centuries ago and died of a broken heart…but her grave was found empty shortly after her death... -
![My Mother's Eyes: A Short Story by Jeremy Ray]()
My Mother's Eyes: A Short Story by Jeremy Ray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You’re wrong, Jordie. You’ll see. Draw me just one more time.”No one knows if his mother will come out of her coma, so fourteen-year-old Jordie memorializes her in the only way he knows how: by drawing her. His older brother doesn’t approve of these sketches, but Jordie’s determined to capture the person she used to be... -
![The Value of X by Poppy Z. Brite]()
The Value of X by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGary and Rickey grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward, products of New Orleans as surely as Community Coffee or the Superdome. Friends since childhood, they become lovers at age 16 and must deal with the realities of being gay in a hardscrabble neighborhood, a traditional Catholic family, and the restaurant kitchens where they've begun to work...Categorized as:
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![We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson]()
We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won't be long now. We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness... -
![Dark Spring by Unica Zürn]()
Dark Spring by Unica Zürn
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zurn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, the "impure" mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described "the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood...Categorized as:
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![The Bone Fire by György Dragomán]()
The Bone Fire by György Dragomán
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom an award-winning European writer, a Gothic page-turner with all the menace and promise of a fairy tale In the aftermath of a revolution that has plunged her country into chaos, thirteen-year-old Emma’s small corner of the world is shattered after her dissident parents' death in a car crash...Categorized as:
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![The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell]()
The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe hilarious, bittersweet novel from the playwright behind EDUCATING RITA, SHIRLEY VALENTINE and award-winning musical BLOOD BROTHERS.Dear Morrissey,I'm feeling dead depressed and down. Like a streetlamp without a bulb or a goose at the onset of Christmas time.Anyroad, I thought I'd pen a few lines to someone who'd understand...It's 1991...Categorized as:
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![The Past Is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson]()
The Past Is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, magical realism, and the search for a missing child.Winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, and Mississippi Author Award for Adult fiction... -
![The Only Child by Miranda Rijks]()
The Only Child by Miranda Rijks
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne little boy. One little lie. Where will it end?Chantal and Stuart are a golden couple. She’s a high-flying divorce lawyer dealing with the biggest case of her career, and he’s the darling of daytime television, on the cusp of A list celebrity. Their seventeen-year old son Alex is a passionate environmentalist, the apple of his mother’s eye.And it’s all built on a lie.A lie told by Chantal...Categorized as:
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![Com més profunda és l'aigua, més lleig és el peix by Laia Font i Mateu]()
Com més profunda és l'aigua, més lleig és el peix by Laia Font i Mateu
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEn quin moment l’amor esdevé obsessió, i què passa llavors? Una història captivadora sobre vincles emocionals complicats.Sinopsi:És l’Edie, de 16 anys, qui troba la seva mare Marienne penjant d’una vella corda de saltar enmig de la sala, un bassal d’orina a terra, gairebé morta...Categorized as:
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![The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, Mikolaj Dutsch]()
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, Mikolaj Dutsch
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic...Categorized as:
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![The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink]()
The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The thought of calling off work is like the thought of suicide, just nice to think about."In The No Hellos Diet, Sam Pink brings you straight into a world you've never been to before -- your own life. Find yourself working at a department store where everyone must wear red and khaki clothing. Find yourself throwing out garbage for fifty cents more than minimum wage... -
![The Scariest Story You've Ever Heard by Ron Keres]()
The Scariest Story You've Ever Heard by Ron Keres
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings2022 Readers' Choice Book Awards GOLD MEDAL WINNER!Step into a world of spooky delight with The Scariest Story You've Ever Heard. This award-winning and whimsical rhyming read-aloud is a must-have for fans of B.J. Novak's The Book with No Pictures and Aaron Reynolds' Creepy Crayon!…Darkness falls.Strange noises fill the air... -
![The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai]()
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora... -
![The Substitute Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler]()
The Substitute Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA brand-new edition in the bestselling Black Lagoon series!THE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER FROM THE BLACK LAGOON is a brand-new edition in the bestselling Black Lagoon series! Mrs. Green is out sick and Hubie's class is going to have a sub! The students are ready to party all day...until they meet Mr. Frank N... -
![The Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler]()
The Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the zany, bestselling series that has sold more than 200,000 copes comes a hilarious new picture book. If young readers thought the Teacher and the Principal from the Black Lagoon were scary, wait until they see the gym teacher! This third book explores a youngster's fear of meeting a new teacher . . -
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![Counting Backwards by Binnie Kirshenbaum]()
Counting Backwards by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA married couple deals with the husband’s decline from Lewy body dementia in a profound and deeply moving novel shot through with Kirshenbaum's lacerating humor.It begins with of a man on stilts, an acting troupe, Ghandi. At first, these seem benign, almost comical, and are likely connected with an ocular issue. It’s something he and his wife can make jokes about... -
![Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu]()
Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPart visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu's BLINDING was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release... -
![The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley]()
The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Arrival of Missives is a genre-defying story of fate, free-will and the choices we make in life. In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as predictable as the changing of the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr...Categorized as:
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![The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford]()
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt times literary, at other times surreal, this collection offers an eclectic group of stories that deal with real-life conflicts, human values, and coming-of-age experiences all placed within fantastical settings. One tale recounts the author's search for a Kafka story that can only be found in an elusive and quite possibly cursed edition...Categorized as:
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![Season of the Witch: A Novel by James Leo Herlihy]()
Season of the Witch: A Novel by James Leo Herlihy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBy the author of Midnight Cowboy: A teenage girl runs away to the East Village in “one of the best and most convincing novels . . . of the Woodstock generation” (Publishers Weekly). As she explains in her diary, seventeen-year-old Gloria Random is running away from her Midwest childhood home. It’s the fall of 1969, and her best friend John has been called up for the draft...Categorized as:
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![Love Struck by Shani Petroff]()
Love Struck by Shani Petroff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a fit of rage, Angel mistakenly tells her parents to Ògrow up,Ó and before she knows it, theyÕre zapped back to their teens and running away together because theyÕre so in love. Now AngelÕs got the weight of the world on her shoulders... -
![Verdigris by Michele Mari]()
Verdigris by Michele Mari
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents’ modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather’s library... -
![Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Randall Frakes, James Cameron]()
Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Randall Frakes, James Cameron
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsColossal tales that fit in the palm of your hand, Mighty Chronicles capture all the excitement of the world's favorite stories in action-packed mini-volumes. Hardcover on the outside, thrill-a-page on the inside, each Mighty Chronicle leaps to life with 150 original illustrations... -
![On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren]()
On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinned knees and red wine, satin and switchblades, rosaries and Dionysian ecstasy. Her writings are haunted by the ghosts of girlhood, god/s, lovers and the landscape of childhood, but Warren is unflinching - she haunts her ghosts in return, with sharp lyricism and cutthroat vulnerability...Categorized as:
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![Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty]()
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy... -
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![I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates]()
I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably...Categorized as:
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![Another by Paul Tremblay]()
Another by Paul Tremblay
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling, acclaimed horror author Paul Tremblay delivers an unforgettable middle grade debut in this bone-chilling tale of an unsettling, unbreakable friendship.When Casey Wilson’s parents tell him that his friend is coming for a sleepover, he has no idea who that might be. Ever since the Zoom Incident, everyone treats him like a pariah, and his tics are worse than ever...Categorized as:
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![No One Will Believe You by Robert J. Crane, Lauren Harper]()
No One Will Believe You by Robert J. Crane, Lauren Harper
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane... A compulsive liar. Her vampire stalker. Who's going to believe her? Cassie Howell was just a normal girl worried about normal things - school, homework, dealing with her parents - until one day she picked up a stalker. But no, not a normal stalker, because that'd be too easy. A vampire stalker. Now Cassie is stuck; she has a long history of lying... -
![Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi]()
Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys... -
![The Gravedigger by Peter Grandbois]()
The Gravedigger by Peter Grandbois
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a small, whitewashed village, indistinguishable from any other in Andalusia, Juan Rodrigo is a gravedigger. The job was handed down to him by his father, as was the ability to hear the voices of the dead and to tell their stories to the living... -
![Rules for Being Dead by Kim Powers]()
Rules for Being Dead by Kim Powers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg. --STARRED Review, Shelf AwarenessIt's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies--James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr...
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