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Wicked

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:32:12 PST

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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a ...

Boy's Life

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:30:36 PST

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Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever.As Cory struggles to understand his father's ...

The Burning

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:27:49 PST

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Now comes the hottest horror yet from the Bram Stoker Award winner... They're four strangers with one thing in common-a mysterious train choking the sky with black smoke, charging trackless across the American night...and carrying an unstoppable evil raised from the depths of history that will bring each of their worst fears to life.

The Summoning

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:27:44 PST

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Darkness is descending on the small town of Rio Verde, Arizona. An evil older than time is rising from the desert, waiting for night to fall and a reign of terror to begin...Brad Woods had performed a lot of autopsies, but never one like this. The body was purged of all blood. And something told Brad this was only the beginning of a nightmare.Fear made Sue Wing run from the darkened school that n ...

The Policy

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:27:39 PST

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Unemployed, divorced, and living in a new state, Hunt Jackson would be considered a risk by most insurance companies. Lucky for him, he's found one that will give him a policy. All he has to do is sign on the dotted line-and note a minor provision: they require a pound of flesh for their investment. No backing out. No joke. No running away.

The Walking

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:27:30 PST

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The dead are getting restless... Across the country, they have risen. And they seem to have a mission.... The walking has begun... No one knows why they are walking. No one knows where they are going. And no one can stop them.... They are here. From the acclaimed author of The Store, The Ignored, and The Town comes The Walking-and it's going to make Bram Stoker Award-winner Bentley Lit ...

Revelation

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:27:27 PST

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Strange things are happening in the small town of Randall, Arizona. And as darkness falls, an itinerant preacher has arrived to spread a gospel of cataclysmic fury...And stranger things are yet to come... Praise for The Revelation "A nail-biting, throat-squeezing, nonstop plunge into darkness and evil. I guarantee, once you start reading this book, you'll be up until dawn." --Rick Hautala ...

The Resort

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:27:20 PST

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Bram Stoker award-winner Bentley Little cordially invites you to The Resort. Welcome to The Reata, an exclusive spa isolated in the Arizona desert. Please ignore the strange employees and that unspeakable thing in the pool. And when guests start disappearing, pretend it isn't happening. Enjoy your stay, and relax. Oh...and lock yourself in after dark.

The Store

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 4:27:13 PST

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In a small Arizona town, a man counts his blessings: a loving wife, two teenage daughters, and a job that allows him to work at home. Then "The Store" announces plansto open a local outlet, which will surely finish off the small downtown shops. His concerns grow when "The Store's"builders ignore all the town's zoning laws during itsconstruction. Then dead animals are found on "The Store's" ground ...

The Snowman's Children

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:18:31 PST

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Neverwhere

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:17:49 PST

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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters a ...

Two Bear Mambo

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:15:56 PST

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Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating the good ole boy cops can't - or won't - do. In Grovetown they encounter a redneck police chief, a sa ...

Freezer Burn

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:14:28 PST

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Bill has no job, no money and no mother '... his mother was dead and kind of freeze-dried in her bedroom'. She doesn't smell as bad as she used to, but her welfare checks are piling up and Bill doesn't feel smart enough to forge her signature. So he decides to rob a firecracker stand across the highway from his house, for cash and may be a few loud bangs into the bargain. The heist goes horr ...