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A woman looks back to her painful childhood in the rural South to solve a family mystery: "Magnificent . . . just masterful" (Ann Patchett). Ever since Ellen Tote can remember, she has dreamed of her mother slowly drowning. Now, with her own children all grown and her siblings long gone, Ellen is still haunted by her half-remembered past, and finally journeys back to her childhood for answers. Piecing together her memories of growing up among North Carolina tenant farmers in the 1940s, she articulates a story so shattering, it had long been silenced by fear and shame—in a heartrending and emotionally powerful tale from a PEN/Hemingway Award nominee and "one of the finest Southern novelists to appear in a long, long time" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). "There's a lyric intensity and a quiet authority in Ellen's narrative voice, and thoughtful consideration has been given to the question of how one makes peace with the griefs of the...

Jim Grimsley

Voyage to the City of the Dead

Alan Dean Foster

The Cockatrice Boys

What does a cockatrice enjoy most for dinner? Anyone it can find. So the alarmed inhabitants of England discover when a plague of monsters-known as cockatrices-invade their country and begin gobbling them up. They must be stopped! A plucky band of survivors dubbed the Cockatrice Corps- including youngsters Dakin and Sauna-decide to fight back. But how? A rollicking adventure filled with breathtaking twists and turns, The Cockatrice Boys is Joan Aiken at her comic best.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Joan Aiken

[Goosebumps 08] - The Girl Who Cried Monster

R. L. Stine

A Goat's Song

In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up Catherine's RUC father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.

Dermot Healy

Getting Off Clean

In Timothy Murphy's Getting Off Clean, the one thing that Eric Fitzpatrick wants is to escape—both from his family and the racially tense town in which he lives. The only son of an Italian-Irish family in a working class suburb of Boston, he intends to go away to college and leave his old life far behind. But all his plans are set askew when he meets Brooks, a mysterious, wealthy, black student at a local prep school. As their relationship grows ever deeper and more complicated, Eric must come to terms not only with his family and community, but with his warring ambitions and desires.

Timothy Murphy

Outcaste

Fletcher DeLancey

The Sequel

Writer's block shows up in person to terrorize a bestselling author Zachary Gold, struggling to write his second novel after his first became an instant success, is suddenly confronted by a mysterious man claiming that Zach plagiarized his writing. In an effort to escape the crazed imposter, Zach flees to a nearby library and hides out amid the children's bookshelves in the basement. Surrounded by fairy tales, fearing for his safety, the author endeavors to write while grappling with the question of whether to attempt a sequel to his smash hit or start anew with an original story.The Sequel is the latest installment in our Bibliomysteries series, penned by none other than R. L. Stine, the man who made horror fun for young readers.

R. L. Stine

Help! I'm Trapped in My Sister's Body

Product DescriptionWith his on-line pen pal Sumi coming for a visit, Jake Sherman worries because he has led her to believe that he is a star athlete and exchanges bodies with the only athlete in the family, his sister, Jessica, with chaotic results.

Todd Strasser

God's Fires

In Portugal, where the Inquisition protects the true word of God, Father Manoel Pessoa has begun to hear strange confessions from the villagers of Quintas. Glowing lights in the sky. Angels who lie with village women. A virgin birth. Strangest of all. some people—including King Afonso himself—have seen a ship fall to Earth, round like an acorn. From inside come three creatures— slight of build, wide-eyed, amazing in their silence. Could they be angels? Or devils sent to tempt people from the true faith? The inquisitor-general will certainly learn the truth, as is his divine mission. And all the while, the smell of burning grows stronger in the air.

Patricia Anthony

Gimme Shelter

The Chicken Squad is back for their fifth (mis)adventure in this "lip-bitingly funny" (School Library Journal) chapter book from the bestselling author of Click, Clack, Moo and The Trouble with Chickens.The Chicken Squad prides themselves on being ready for anything. Marshmallow life preserves? Check. Copious bags of jellybeans for a car ride? Check. Storm shelter? Storm shelter! They need a storm shelter in case there is ever a storm. So Sugar takes it upon himself to build one in the yard. But it turns out it's not big enough for everyone. And the big dig has unearthed some mysterious surprises.

Doreen Cronin

Scorpion

Aleksandr Voinov

Wolf and Raven

This "braided novel" set in the Shadowrun(r) universe features the adventures of Wolfgang Kies, solider of fortune. Together with a group of cyborg bounty hunters and computer wizards, he assists Elf Lord Dr. Richard Raven in keeping humanity safe from preying monsters--both magical and technological! But crimelord Etienne LaPlante interferes with their vigilantism, preparing to strike at Raven and those who serve him.... Shadowrun(r) novels have over 1 million copies in print Shadowrun(r) novels sell over 5,000 combined copies per month Cross-promoted in role-playing games, computer software, and FASA miniatures Michael A. Stackpole is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars: X-Wing series ** Fans have been clamoring for Shadowrun(r) stories about the characters featured in this collection**

Michael A. Stackpole

Coming Home

Sydney Jamieson's love for two men makes her avoid returning home whenever possible, but when her father needs help, she has little choice. Her feelings haven't lessened, not even after painfully leaving one at the altar. Facing them, along with her fears, is easier than she anticipated, especially when both men make it clear they still want her--and they like to share.

M.A. Stacie

Huck Out West

Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye to a great American classic in this sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war.They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out to "whosoever." He rides shotgun on coaches, wrangles horses on a Chisholm Trail cattle drive, joins a gang of bandits, guides wagon trains, gets dragged into U.S. Army massacres, suffers a series of romantic and barroom misadventures.He is eventually...

Robert Coover

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