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1) Coming Home
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Clarissa Louise Whitehead fell victim to the overwhelming desire that so many others like her before suffered from, which is to be a star--a rare feat indeed. But she had looks and she had brains, and nothing was going to stop her. She would have to leave behind the safety and security of friends and family to achieve this goal and travel to a faraway land called Hollywood. However, fame and fortune would come with a price. In her quest for stardom,...
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Small towns are funny places. Don't be fooled by their undisturbed beauty, they are not pristine. Give people the opportunity for a perfect utopia, they will destroy it. A town can be spoiled by too many businesses, traffic lights, and, above all, citizens. That is where the rot may not merely exist but thrive.
The Thomases have lived in Thornwood, New Hampshire, most of their lives, same as their neighbors. But given the ebb and flow of life, they...
3) Le Cameleon
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This book begins with an innocent child named Camilla, born in the late fifties. At the young age of six, Camilla becomes dominated by an Uncle who is a psychopathic pedophile. He does unspeakable things to her for almost a decade, which altered the way she dealt with the men she met during her young adult life. When she turns eighteen, she experiences the most horrific rape a young girl could ever imagine and almost dies in the hospital because of...
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The small community of Amos, Idaho, had long enjoyed a state of serenity and reason. Within the simple yet complacent lives of the people in the town, there is no reason to suppose that there could be anything amiss within their own consciousness until people's superstitions begin to get the best of them, which would lead to uncertainties concerning the role that their lives play in the rational world outside of their own minds.
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Jessie Sevier and Sarah Mueller are life long friends. They decided to take a road trip after high school graduation. They set out on their two month excursion in Jessie's VW Bus. Two weeks into it they make a wrong turn. They happen upon a quirky, small town, a town with a secret which only its current inhabitants are privy to. Unbeknownst to Sarah and Jessie, the residents of Bellowing Hollers will go to any lengths to keep them there.
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Wade Lassiter, a gifted athlete and scholar, was days away from graduating from high school in Amarillo, Texas, and had been accepted to attend Princeton University in the fall. He came home on a Friday afternoon to find the house empty even though his parents' cars were there and his ninth-grade sister, Claire, had come home early from school.
He heard a door slam in the garage and went there, only to find his parents and sister lying...
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Alessandra Petrovich is forced to leave her home in Kosovo, as a teenager, caught in the struggle between ethnic groups and terrified of the father she loves. She and her mother hide among thousands of refugees seeking asylum in other countries. Their journey leads them to a small Midwestern town in the United States, where they find solace and create a home for themselves. After fifteen years, Alessandra finds out her father is desperate to find...
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Restless Spirits relates the struggles faced by an interracial couple as they settle into the town of Whitehaven, realizing a lifelong dream of owning a bed-and-breakfast inn, as well as converting a long-shuttered college campus into a cultural and activity center. While coping with racial incidents perpetrated by some of the townspeople, Anita and Mark uncovered a disturbing secret hidden for decades within the confines of the property. The chilling...
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What if something horrible happened?
What if it happened to you?
What if you did nothing?
The would haves, could haves, and should haves consume you with regret. This festers in you for years. You could have gone on seething this way for the rest of your life, until...
You are suddenly jolted into a shocking reminder. The reminder is as merciless as those involved and as unforgiving as the thoughts of revenge that have been smoldering inside you....
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A massive shark, which is supposed to be extinct for thousands of years, terrorizes the shores of the seaside town of Harradon. At first, no one believes the old lobsterman who first spotted it. But as time goes on, the evidence of a massive killer fish becomes a reality, and the locals try everything in their power to destroy it. Eventually, a young fisherman, a scientist, and an old sailor embark on a quest to catch the huge shark alive. But when...
11) Oriental Treat
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I take it back! How many times in life does a man or women utter these words? When we say something stupid or hateful, then we often ask for forgiveness and take it back. Sharp and piercing words stick in the mind like a coffee stain on a white shirt it never totally goes away. If these same words are used regarding the life that a man or woman has lived, is the effect any different? The answer is obvious: forgiveness may come from an apology, but...
12) South of Topanga
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In his midsixties and with a terminal cancer prognosis, Gary becomes obsessed with not having had sons. With his wife away on a trip, he unofficially adopts young, twenty-four-year-old Michael, looking to him for salvation. Independent Michael, willing to help, becomes caught in Gary's increasingly unreasonable demands.
Meanwhile, Gary's wife, Hannah, has come to a private decision about her marriage. She returns home to find Michael in the center...
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Diana Miller es una joven con aspiraciones en la vida. Pues, tiene el sueño de llegar a ser una gran cantante y actriz. Pero esos sueños se ven cortados al ser víctima de un poderoso personaje del bajo mundo, Johnny, quien la viola y la abandona dándola por muerta. Diana ha sobrevivido al ataque y denuncia a su agresor, a quien le dan cárcel. Ahora Diana enfrenta un embarazo del hombre que la mancilló y está condenada por amor a su madre, a...
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When a natural disaster puts Billy Malone at Nicole Freeman's cabin in the woods, she soon finds that his offer to help her out of her predicament was simply a way of drawing her in to his web of deceit. Her loneliness and desire for a connection blinded her to the truth of how she was being drawn into a relationship that was fraught with dishonesty. Before she realizes it, this dashingly handsome, younger-aged, charismatic charmer suddenly has her...
15) Quicksand
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With its awesome beauty and deadly pitfalls, life is held in the balance when a Share-Crop farm family flee to Georgia's Okenfenokee Swamp.
Moonshining and voodoo are easy to hide in this dense swamp where most dare not venture for fear of their life.
Love, betrayal, ignorance and bitter hatred abound when life is interlocked between a white and black family. This book is a spinetingling, thriller. An over the edge page turner.
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Southeast Louisiana is steeped in history and family. Every family has a legacy. Some legacies are passed from one generation to the next, while others are as murky and troubled as the waters of the Mississippi River. The New Orleans Saints had a legacy of being perennial losers, however in 2009 that legacy was altered. Set during the Saints miracle season these characters discover their true legacy. At twenty-four Chloe Fuller considered her life...
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Always in trouble, he's a bad boy, born bad, raised by obsessive parents to be bad, beaten until he believes. Then he meets her, and his world changes from darkness to a light she shines to help this bad boy find his good. The decision he must make will set him free or destroy him. It's time, and Jared must choose. Can he take the truth of what he has always known himself to be and weigh it against all she has helped him see and decide? Is he strong...
18) Fallacy
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Rachel survives being shot in her front yard. Someone is trying to kill her, but why? Can Detective Devereux keep her safe and catch the person trying to kill her at every turn? A widow with three adult children, just living a simple life, nothing to draw a killer. Something about this woman pulls Jason Devereux to uncharacteristically make her protection personal. Their attraction to each other may be a hindrance to her safety. Jake, her Down syndrome...
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The term queer plungers was used in nineteenth-century England to describe a specific ilk of con artists. One of them would throw himself into the Thames River, and the other two would pretend to save him from drowning. Then they would go to the local humane society and collect a reward. Not the smartest con artists.
The novel The Queer Plungers is about con artists, but not your typical ones. The setting is Harvard University, and there are four...
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Battle Cry is the story of a young girl named Cadence, who takes a long but meaningful journey to discover her true self. Cadence suffered many years of mental and sexual abuse from the one person she least expected to make her suffer, her own father. With the fear that no one would believe her or understand her pain, along with the problems she was having at home, she reached the lowest point in her life. She began to question her worth and who she...
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