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Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste… Ever sees Damen and feels an instant recognition. He is gorgeous,... (more)

Love, Aubrey

by Suzanne M. LaFleur

"I had everything I needed to run a household: a house, food, and a new family. From now on it would just be me and Sammy–the two of us, and no one else." A tragic accident has turned eleven-year-old Aubrey’s world upside down. Starting a new life all alone, Aubrey has everything she thinks she needs: SpaghettiOs and Sammy, her new pet fish. She cannot talk about what happened to her. Writing letters is the... (more)

The Shack

Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

by William P. Young

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack... (more)

Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine

by Ann Hood

This novel begins in 1969, and as Peter, Paul and Mary croon on the radio and poster paints are splashing the latest anti-war slogans. Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach house awaiting the birth of a love child she will name Sparrow. Claudia, who weds a farmer during college, plans to raise three strong sons. And Elizabeth and Howard marry, organize protest marches, and try to raise their two children with... (more)

Playing Solitaire

by Nancy Antle

Playing solitaire is about the only thing from before "the incident" that Ellie will allow to be a part of her new life. Of course, her memories aren't all bad. There are the good times she had shared with Mama, before the illness took her away. But always, always, creeping in when Ellie least expects it, there's Daddy. Out there...somewhere. Even starting her new life with Grandpa can't change the fact of Daddy.... (more)

Sundowners

by Lesley Lokko

Take four friends...Rianne: beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the world at her feet but is about to risk everything. Gabrielle: intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else, now it's time for her to start looking after No.1. Nathalie: petite, pretty and with a shrewd eye for business, she uses her work to help her forget the one man she can't have. Charmaine: flirty and outrageous,... (more)

Tragedy in Tin Can Holler

by Rozetta mowery

"Tragedy in Tin Can Holler" is a captivating must read true story of a family's past transgressions revealing a serial killer during the great depression, incest and child abuse, lies and betrayals and domestic violence buried for decades! The vicious murder of the author's mother haunted her for 48 years, but discovering the truth about her mother's murder was just the tip of the iceberg. Her story is... (more)

Fresh Kills

by Bill Loehfelm

Unabridged CDs • 8 CDs, 10 hours Raw emotion, razor- sharp dialogue, dark humor, and a heartfelt sense of place and character define this noir mystery—and herald the astonishing debut of a compelling voice in contemporary fiction.

We were the MulvaneysJoyce Carol Oates

We were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

In the tradition of Bright Lights, Big City and The Secret History comes a compelling, highly-acclaimed debut novel of youth and innocence. On the elm-lined streets of a middle-class American city, the lives of a group of teenaged boys are forever changed by their obsession with five mysteriously doomed sisters.

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Evermore

by Alyson Noel