The Cabinet of Souls

      R. L. Stine
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Dare to enter a mysterious realm where the cost of admission just might be your soul! When teenage friends Beth, Nicole, Kellen, and Luke visit a traveling Hall of Horrors, they can't wait to get spooked. But when Beth goes backstage and discovers a haunted cabinet that traps the souls of lost teens, she and her friends just might get trapped forever!

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    A German Requiem

      Philip Kerr
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The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogyPhilip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.

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    Faceless

      Martina Cole
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Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. And she's paid the price. Now she is being released from prison. It's time to go home. But life has moved on, and Marie has nowhere to go. Her parents have disowned her; her friends have abandoned her; even her kids don't want to know. But some people out there are watching her, following her every move they know that Marie Carter wants retribution.

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    Short Stories, Found Online

      Jonathan Day
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Go online and download a demon app., summon a tramp from Heaven, float in the celluloid firmament for an hour, crack a Cosmic Egg, bounce your waistline back, or be invited to the fashion parade that - literally - takes off!Aspirations and desires that were once out of reach are nowavailable with a brief word search.Feeling the weight of the world? Float above it in a Body Balloon.Need an angel to rescue you from the purgatory of an offspring?The dog with the smiley face will show you how.Or just want to crochet a different dimension?Click "pay now" and change your life.

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    The Complete Adventures of the flea, fly, Floo

      thewordmaster
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This is the zany adventures of the flea, the fly, and a Dodo bird named Floo. It is filled with complex tongue twisters and features Flip, the flop-eared flea flicker, Flick, the freckle faced flea flicker flayer, Flippety Floppety, and Boogety Boogety Shoo. They come from the towns of Kalamazoo and Yulamatoo and even have some adventures in a half-lit zoo.This book began as a poem or the author's daughter. In Book One, The flea, the fly and Floo the dodo bird rob a bank. Book two has them get arrested by Flip, the frecked-faced flea-flicker. Book Three shows how they attempted a jail break with Flick, the freckled-faced flea-flicker-flayer. Book four shows how the grandson of Flip gets in a fight because of his famous grandfather. Book five shows how the school of the shoe got founded by Boogety Boogety.

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    Legends

      Robert Littell
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Robert Littell is the undisputed master of American spy fiction, hailed for his profound grasp of the world of international espionage. His previous novel, The Company, an international bestseller, was praised as "one of the best spy novels ever written" (Chicago Tribune). For his new novel, Legends, Littell focuses on the life of one great agent caught in a "wilderness of mirrors" where both remembering and forgetting his past are deadly options.Martin Odum is a CIA field agent turned private detective, struggling his way through a labyrinth of past identities - "legends" in CIA parlance. Is he really Martin Odum? Or is he Dante Pippen, an IRA explosives maven? Or Lincoln Dittmann, Civil War expert? These men like different foods, speak different languages, have different skills. Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Can Odum trust the CIA psychiatrist? Or Stella Kastner, a young Russian woman who...

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    Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home

      Natalie Goldberg
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A powerful memoir from Natalie Golderg—the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country—sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen.Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home begins at the grave of Katagiri Roshi, Natalie's Zen teacher, in Japan. Twenty years after Katagiri's death and Natalie's return to New Mexico, she is permanently settled in Santa Fe with her partner, Yukwan. Except that, as Buddhism teaches us, nothing is permanent. Natalie learns that she has CLL, a potentially fatal form of blood cancer.For two years, Natalie dances with her cancer—visiting doctor after doctor, attempting treatment after treatment. Nothing helps; in fact, one of the treatments only feeds the cancer and encourages its growth. Then Natalie's partner, Yukwan discovers that she, too, has cancer—breast cancer—as well as an off-the-charts oncotype score that requires her to have surgery...

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