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  Outside Valentine

  by Liza Ward

  'Impeccably drawn...In prose at once word perfect and wildly imagined, Ward moves between the '50s and the '90s, laying out in vivid scenes how Caril Ann and Charlie built their twisted bond on desperate lust and deadly boredom...Astonishingly poetic yet palpable prose.' -Lisa Shea, Elle Liza Ward's spellbinding first novel is told from the very different points of view of three narrators mysteriously linked by a... (more)
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  Sophocles Three Tragedies Antigone Oedipus the King Electra

  by Sophocles, Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon

  This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance. The selection of Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra not only offers... (more)
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  Delirium Trilogy: Book 1

  Delirium

  by Lauren Oliver

  Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love -the deliria- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without... (more)
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  The Magnificent 12: Book 1

  The Call

  by Michael Grant

  Sometimes one hero isn't enough-sometimes you need a full dozen. First in a funny, action-packed fantasy series by the New York Times bestselling author of GONE Mack McAvoy is not an unlikely hero. He is an impossible hero! He is only twelve years old, he has a list of phobias as long as your arm, and he's a bully magnet. That is, until Mack is visited by a golem. The golem looks exactly like Mack, and has been... (more)
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  So Much Pretty

  by Cara Hoffman

  So Much Pretty is a novel about family, community, and storytelling.The Pipers are a family built on optimism. On deeply felt ideals and commitment to their community. Claire and Gene moved with their precocious, beguiling daughter Alice to Haeden, New York for a fresh start, to give Alice the freedom and opportunity they always wanted for themselves. In doing so, they unwittingly re-write the story of... (more)
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  Goddess Test: Book 1

  The Goddess Test

  by Aimée Carter

  Every girl who has taken the test has died.Now it's Kate's turn.It's always been just Kate and her mom--and now her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won't live past the fall.Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades,... (more)
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  The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte : A Biography

  by Daphne du Maurier

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  Brooklyn, Burning

  by Steven Brezenoff

  When you're sixteen and no one understands who you are, sometimes the only choice left is to run. If you're lucky, you find a place that accepts you, no questions asked. And if you're really lucky, that place has a drum set, a place to practice, and a place to sleep. For Kid, the streets of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, are that place. Over the course of two scorching summers, Kid falls hopelessly in love and then loses... (more)
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  The Secret Circle: Book 3

  The Power

  by L. J. Smith

  United at last with Diana, the mistress of her coven, Cassie must first sacrifice her love for Adam to save the Secret Circle and the town of New Salem from the evil powers of the witch Faye.Threatened by the possibility of her destruction in a final battle between good and evil, Cassie must hope that her supernatural gifts are strong enough to obliterate the powers of evil.If victorious,... (more)
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  Gypsy Boy

  My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies

  by Mikey Walsh

  An Eye-Opening Memoir of Growing Up Gypsy Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a secluded community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows only too well. Growing up, he didn’t go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies, and the... (more)
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  Light Before Day

  by Christopher Rice

  Adam Murphy, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, is chasing a career-making story of a serial killer preying on young gay men in West Hollywood when he is abruptly fired by the magazine that employs him. He soon learns his former lover has disappeared, but what he's about to uncover is far more diabolical than he could ever have imagined. Light Before Day is a riveting and complex mystery set against the gothic... (more)
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  City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less

  by Nina Willdorf

  Live a Prada lifestyle on a Payless budget. Urban Girls work hard and play even harder. They have an eye for style that is only slowed by a budgetary bottom line. They live the lifestyles of the not-at-all-rich and the not-just-yet-famous. Soon enough, they will be superstars, oozing savoir-faire. But for now, before they assume the helm of the boardroom table, they still have their secret ways of living the... (more)
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  The Dip

  What Winners Know About Quitting

  by Seth Godin

  The old saying is wrong-winners do quit, and quitters do win. Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point-really hard, and not much fun at all. And then you find yourself asking if the goal is even worth the hassle. Maybe you're in a Dip-a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe... (more)
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  Jerlayne

  by Lynn Abbey

  Jerlayne's mother had warned her not to marry the handsome elf, but Jerlayne refused to listen. Now a century after the wedding, Jerlayne's marriage is in shambles and none of their children have matured into elves like their parents. Jerlayne wants answers--she wants to know why her mother was so opposed to her marriage, and in finding those answers, these two elven women will confront an issue that will rock... (more)
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  Den of Shadows: Book 3

  Shattered Mirror

  by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  To the casual observer, Christopher Ravena and Sarah Vida look like normal high school students. But he’s a vampire who has sworn off human blood, and she’s a witch, a daughter of the most powerful vampire-hunting dynasty in history. Slowly, without meaning to, Sarah finds herself won over by his sensitivity, his gentleness, his kindness. But his past and her future collide when they both get tangled up with... (more)
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  Heart-Shaped Box

  by Joe Hill

  Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals, a used hangman's noose, a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach... (more)
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  Fear Street: Book 31

  Switched

  by R. L. Stine

  FEAR STREET -- WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES LIVE . . . Nicole always thought her friend Lucy's life was so much better than hers. She had cooler parents, a cuter boyfriend . . . next to her, Nicole felt like a loser. So when Lucy asked if she wanted to switch bodies, Nicole thought it sounded like a fun idea. Good for a laugh. She didn't realize the switch would actually work. Or that Lucy's life might not be so... (more)
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  Goosebumps: Book 27

  A Night in Terror Tower

  by R. L. Stine

  All locked up and no place to go!Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. No way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower.No way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them . . . dead.
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  Fear Street Sagas: Book 7

  Children of Fear

  by R. L. Stine

  Hating the dark rumors spreading about his younger sister, Leah, and her strange ability to communicate with animals, Luke Fier begins to worry about changes in his sister's personality after their parents' terrible accident. Original."
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  Where Did I Come From?

  The Facts of Life Without Any Nonsense and with Illustrations

  by Peter Mayle, Arthur Robins

  Covers the basic facts from love-making, orgasm, conception and growth inside the womb, through to the actual birth day. This book names all the names and shows all the important parts of the body.