Fiction : Genre Fiction

Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then one day . . . Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden—and the face that looks back at her is not her own. Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place. And she never left. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane—a blood-chilling purpose that Louisa, just a girl herself, must battle with all her heart, soul, and spirit . . . or she will lose her innocent, helpless niece forever. One of the most adored ghost stories of all time is available again after thirty years—to thrill and chill a new generation!. more...

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Kristin Hannah author of Distant Shores and On Mystic Lake Along Came Mary is a wonderful novel, filled with women so real and honest you feel you've known them all of your life. It is an absolute joy to read this book; you won't be able to put it down. hard times and survive whatever comes their way. more...

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Billy's Blues , recipient of the 1995 Jerome DeJur Award (previously granted to Oscar Hijuelos and Walter Mosley), is narrated by Walter, a modern day shut-in who suffers from numerous phobias. Safely removed from the late 20th century, Walter spends the day sleeping, reading, and eating, until be becomes obsessed with a famous figure from the late 19th Century: Billy the Kid. The infamous ‘Boy Bandit King’ of the old Southwest, shot dead at the age of twenty-one by Sheriff Pat Garret, who was once a friend. As his life spins out of control, his story is interrupted by increasingly elaborate interpretations of Billy the Kid until it becomes difficult to separate myth from reality and fiction from fact. As Billy the Kid leapt into the pages of history from old dime novels and western folklore, Billy's Blues might become an enfant terrible of literature. more...

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Farrel meets and marries Robert. Their two families combine. It isn't long before verbal abuse, beatings, and broken promises begin. After avery bad beating, Farrel gets counselling. This seems to be a new beginning. But her real new beginning only starts when fear no longer rules her life. more...

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Set in the Belgian Congo in 1959, The Catastrophist tells of English expatriates in a paradise about to erupt into chaos. Gillespie, a journalist, is in in love with and, obsessed with hero worship. As colonial corruption gives way to turmoil, Gillespie is forced to choose between fear or courage, detachment or involvement, eroticism or love. more...

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