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1) Cold Meat
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While passing through the Colorado Rockies, David stops for a meal at a diner and ends up heroically saving a young waitress from her violent ex-husband. David hits the road again amid a dangerous blizzard, and one false move sends him into a ravine in the eye of the storm. Slowly running out of resources, it's hard to tell what will get him first: the cold or the beast that's prowling outside.
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Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues like sovereignty,...
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Creepshow volume 6
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Doctor finds cure to weight loss with fat-sucking leech. Rose looks for monster of Lake Champlain.
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Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction--from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust...
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Sturmwolken des Krieges ziehen erneut am Horizont auf. In dieser Zeit des Umbruchs reist Captain Jonathan Clarke vom MAD auf die Frontwelt Starlight, um den untergetauchten Verbrecher Aaron Leech ausfindig zu machen. Was zunächst wie ein einfacher Routineauftrag aussieht, entpuppt sich schnell als gefährliches Wettrennen, denn plötzlich zeigen auch die Ruul reges Interesse an dem Flüchtigen. Und der Preis des Wettrennens ist das gesamte Starlight-System...
9) Matilda Bone
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
11) The Hunter
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Leeches. You know them as vampires, they seem to be normal people. Except the fact that they have ivory skin and blood red eyes. They try to hide in the normal world, but people like me, we can tell the difference. I'm a hunter, one of many. We're all over the world. Right now, they're looking for something, something that would destroy the human population withing days. I must stop them. I must save the human race. Even if it's the last thing I do....
12) Gillespie
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A leech, a pirate, a predator, an anti-Christ, a public benefactor, and the fisherman's friend; such is Gillespie Strang in this remarkably powerful Scottish novel. Gillespie is the harsh prophet of the new breed of Scottish entrepreneur, prepared to use any means to achieve his insatiable ambition amongst the nineteenth-century fishing communities of the west coast. John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) was born and raised in Tarbert, Loch Fyne, upon which...
13) Rest in Pieces
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Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust. If vampires kill your entire family, vengeance is a must.I can't say my parents never warned me about vampires. I just never believed them. Not-that is-until six months ago when vampires broke into my home and killed my family. Thanks to all the skills my parents taught me, I managed to escape but I couldn't save them.Two vampires down and the rest of the world to go.My bid for revenge is going to have to wait, though,...
14) Quiz Therapy
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Are you in love with a leech? What did last night's dream really mean? Will you be rich? Are you sexy?
For years, quizzes appearing online and in magazines have fascinated and captured the attention of women of all ages. People send online quizzes to their friends and compare scores. Couples and girlfriends take them together to better understand each other. Quiz Therapy: The iVillage Big Book of Quizzes will feature more than 65 quizzes in categories...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Rebel. Champion gymnast. Intergalactic traveler? Trix can deal with being an orphan charity case at a snotty boarding school. She can hold her own when everyone else tells her not to dream big dreams. She can even fight back against the mysterious stranger in a silver mask who tries to steal the meteorite her parents trusted her to protect.
But her life is about to change forever. The Circus Galacticus has come to town, bringing acts to amaze, delight,...
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Elkin's striking debut: The story of one man's comic attempts at immortality. James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses friends of wealth and influence as his own insurance policy against death, an obsession that leads him from coast to coast, crashing parties and mentioning any celebrity whose name will grant him an ounce of social currency. But when those around him begin dying, Boswell is...
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A collection of "mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next" that go beyond the traditional vampire myths (Library Journal).
When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow solicited stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary...
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This book contains the combined volumes of my previous offerings on the subject: Could it be True: Urban Legends and Spooky Urban Legends & the Stories Behind Them. To spice things up a bit, three eerie new tales have been added to the mix. Included in these pages are accounts of killer clowns. a demonic presence that terrorized Great Britain in the 19th century, monstrous reptiles rumored to inhabit the New York City sewer system, brain-eating insects,...
19) Attack
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How many mates can one girl possibly have? Six, the answer is six. We are finally en route to my mother's castle to face off with the greatest evil the species of old has ever known.Along the way, more traitors rear their ugly heads and manage to hit us where it hurts. Me. How many times must I almost die and rise again stronger than the last time? This last time was different; an ancient named Gallus had to step in and set things right.The final...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic shares recollections and reviews from his career at the Washington Post.
In this book, Jonathan Yardley considers lesser-known works from renowned authors and underappreciated talents, and offers fresh takes on old favorites. Yardley's reviews of sixty titles include fiction by Gabriel García Márquez, John Cheever, and Henry Fielding; the autobiography of Louis Armstrong; essays by Nora Ephron; and Margaret...
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