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Vampires in the Lemon Grove : Stories
by Karen Russell
Hardcover: 12 Feb 2013
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From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

A Land More Kind Than Home : A Novel
by Wiley Cash
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 22 Jan 2013
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A mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town.

A Good Hard Look : A Novel
by Ann Napolitano
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 26 Jun 2012
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Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses in life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to the observation that the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 17 Apr 2012
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Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.

The Mysterious Howling : The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book I
by Maryrose Wood
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 25 Jan 2011
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The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess, and mysteries abound in this first volume in a new series for ages 9+.

The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 18 May 2010
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From the author of the international phenomenon, The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game, a new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.

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