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  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

  by John Boyne

  Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. ... (more)
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  After

  by Francine Prose

  School has become a prison. No one knows why. There's no way to stop it.
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  Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Book 1

  A Great and Terrible Beauty

  by Libba Bray

  It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her.... (more)
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  Roadwork

  by Stephen King

  They're tearing down Bart Dawes's home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too.
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  Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Book 2

  Rebel Angels

  by Libba Bray

  Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy—spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Lord Denby. Yet amid these distractions, her visions intensify—visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened that only the realms can explain. The lure is strong, and soon Gemma,... (more)
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  by Carla Buckley

  How far would you go to protect your family ? Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are... (more)
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  Soulless

  by Christopher Golden

  Times Square, New York City: The first ever mass séance is broadcasting live on the Sunrise morning show. If it works, the spirits of the departed on the other side will have a brief window -- just a few minutes -- to send a final message to their grieving loved ones. Clasping hands in an impenetrable grip, three mediums call to their spirit guides as the audience looks on in breathless anticipation. The mediums... (more)
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  Cold Crime: How Police Detectives Solved Alaska's Most Sensational Cases

  by Tom Brennan

  A collection of stories about some of Alaska's high-profile criminal investigations of the past half-century. Step by step, journalist Tom Brennan walks readers through thirteen notorious cases, drawing details from the confidential files of Alaska police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion and greed, and an amazing amount of criminal stupidity.
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  Son of the Endless Night

  by John Farris

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  The Sitter

  by R.L. Stine

  Master of chilling suspense R. L. Stine proves that you never outgrow a good scare. If he frightened you then, he’ll terrify you now. . . . Ellie Saks is dying to escape the city. She’s sick of dead-end jobs, her mother’s disapproval, her loser ex-boyfriend, Clay, who won’t take a hint, and the memories of a terrible incident that occurred years ago. When her best friend suggests a summer in the Hamptons, full of... (more)
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  Gone

  by Kit Craig

  Michael and his siblings try to convince themselves that their missing mother will return, but as the day comes to an end, they begin to suspect that she has met with foul play. Reprint. PW. AB.
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  Unwind

  by Neal Shusterman

  In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation,... (more)
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  The World's Greatest Literature: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

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  Sarah's Key

  by Tatiana de Rosnay

  A New York Times bestseller.   Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this... (more)
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  Killers; the Most Barbaric Murderers of Our Times

  by Nigel Cawthorne

  In this chilling collection of true crime, renowned writer Nigel Cawthorne chronicles the careers of the most infamous killers of our times including-the Boston Strangler, Natural Born Killers, Son of Sam, Charles Manson, American Psycho, Jeffery Dahmer, and more. Killers proves that facts can be scarier than fiction
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  The Uglies: Book 3

  Specials

  by Scott Westerfeld

  "Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary. And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine,... (more)
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  The Handmaid's Tale

  by Margaret Atwood

  In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births,... (more)
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  About a Boy

  by Nick Hornby

  Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to... (more)
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  Four Past Midnight

  by Stephen King

  The scary story has never been the same since. An extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas: The Langoliers , Secret Window , Secret Garden , The Library Policeman , and The Sun Dog .
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  House

  by Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker

  A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Showdown. Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker - two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers - have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House - where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way... (more)