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Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there.
Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.
Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.
Now,...
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"Patrick Rothfuss returns to the Kingkiller Chronicle universe with a stunning reimagining of "The Lightning Tree," expanded to twice its previous length and lavishly illustrated by Nate Taylor. Follow the Kingkiller Chronicle's most charming fae as he schemes his way through the small town of Newarre. While Bast cares nothing for the laws of man, he is beholden to older, deeper laws. And despite his cleverness and care, Bast finds himself forced...
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"Fitz has barely survived his first hazardous mission as king’s assassin. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd, remaining in the distant mountains. But love and events of terrible urgency draw him back to the court at Buckkeep, and into the deadly intrigues of the royal family.
Renewing their vicious attacks on the coast, the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out villages and demented victims in their wake. The kingdom is...
6) Hunted
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With ancient evil loose in the world, Zoey's very existence is on shaky ground, so when a seductive force is revealed to her, she must find the strength to reveal the truth or lose everything that matters, including her soul.
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We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word 'evil'. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. A serial killer who tortures their victims is not merely a bad person. They are...
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"Kaylin's assignment is to be a 'harmoniste'-- one who helps tell the truth behind a Barrani Recitation. But in a land where words are more effective than weapons, Kaylin's duties are deadly. With the wrong phrase she could tear a people further asunder. And with the right ones-- well, then she might be able to heal a blight on a race. If only she understood the story--"--P. [4] of cover.
9) Showdown
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Welcome to Paradise.
Epic battles of good and evil are happening all around us.
Today that battle comes to town with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives in the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible.
Seems like bliss . . . but is it?
Or is hell...
11) Shadowmancer
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When Obadiah Demurral, the power-hungry Vicar of Thorpe, attempts to become a god by dabbling in magic, Raphah (who has come from Africa to get back the artifact stolen from his Temple and sold to Demurral) joins forces with Kate and Thomas to stop him.
13) The outcast
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Having fled the Pure Ones, Nyroc longs to fly to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, but before he claims his new destiny, he must travel alone through the barren and desolate landscape of outcasts called The Beyond the Beyond.
14) Waking the dead
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Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case of a painting reputed to come to life--and to bring death. They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Danni, the owner of an eccentric antiques shop, and Quinn, a private detective, have discovered that they have separate but complementary talents when it comes to investigating unusual situations....
15) The influence
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Ross Lowry came to a small Arizona community to escape the personal and financial woes he'd faced from losing his job. Shortly after his arrival strange thngs started to happen. People's luck began to change overnight, for better or worse. Then the children disappeared. Dark forces gathered, and the only one who seemed to notice is Ross.
16) Scents of war
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A world of warring scents. . .
Destruction and defeat seem inevitable. Ithol is surrounded by enemies, the king has been assassinated, and the princess is fleeing for her life. In her attempt to escape, Princess Agonya discovers ancient scent magic that paralyzes her. But she also learns that the magical Kindroot creatures are real, not just legends of the past and she must save the last of them from the evil Sorceress Dana. Will she be able to master...
17) Perelandra
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Focuses on the age-old nature and consequences of temptation as experienced in a brand new world.
18) The suffering
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"When an old friend disappears in Aokigahara, Japan's infamous 'suicide forest,' Tark and the ghostly Okiku must resolve their differences and return to find her. In a strange village inside Aokigahara, old ghosts and an ancient evil lie waiting"--
19) Queen of dragons
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Kimber Langford, Earl of Chasen and alpha lord of a tribe of drakon--creatures that can change from human to smoke to dragon at will, is surprised to learn of the existence of a lost tribe of drakon in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, but the discovery comes with the news that an unknown enemy is trying to annihilate the drakon, and he soon finds himself united with Carpathian princess Maricara in a struggle to preserve their race.
20) Flunked
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When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School, where all of the teachers are former villains, including the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.
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