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Apr.06.2012
In case you're wondering, the title is NOT about messy houses like in the TV show. The hoarders in my story are a couple of kids who figure out a way to survive when there's no food and no house. When nine-year-old Cheyenne Walker and his younger brother lose the mother they love and...
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Mar.22.2012
Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied...
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Feb.28.2012
Warren Ziller moved his family to Southern California in search of a charmed life, and to all appearances, he found it: a gated community not far from the beach, amid the affluent splendor of the 1980s. But the Zillers’ American dream is about to be rudely interrupted. Warren has squandered...
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Feb.19.2012
12-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same. Years later, she sets out alone to avenge...
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Jan.14.2012
Stephen Banks loos up from breakfast at a Clarkesville, Georgia, diner to see a frightened and unkempt young woman climb from the truck. Who is she? Banks must find out.
The task is a daunting one - her name is Ginger, and she has amnesia. As Banks and Ginger leave Clarkesville in search of her...
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Jan.04.2012
Avery is no stranger to the weight of loss, the way it shapes and defines the expanse of a life. The death of her sister, when Avery was just a child herself, engulfed her and her family—a mother driven mad, a father who disappeared, and all the while, neighbors and friends ignoring and...
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Dec.24.2011
The Living End is a tribute to an unforgettable woman, and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. Told with sparkling wit and warmth, The Living End will resonate with families coping with Alzheimer's, and any reader looking for...
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Nov.30.2011
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their five-bedroom house, all is not well for the...
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Nov.21.2011
“The Flaw in the Fabric, Book 1 of A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls” – set along the Granite Coast of Nova Scotia – is a world in which the boundaries of space and time are developing stress cracks. Through one such crack, brought on by a hurricane in the ghost-infested province of Nova...
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Nov.01.2011
The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't...
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