The Ghost of Nan Clarks Lane (a short story)

      Shalini Boland
     The Ghost of Nan Clarks Lane (a short story)

It’s 1940 and twins Jimmy and Patrick are off to catch frogs in the North London countryside. But as the day unfolds, Jimmy realises that the ghost of Nan Clarks Lane may be more than just a story.(Also contains Chapter One from the full length novel A Shirtful of Frogs.)Suitable for both adults and children aged 10+There's a full moon tonight in Green Bay, Wisconsin. And it brings murder.This one's for you, Elsie.This humorous short story won Janet Fox's coveted Killer Frog Contest for most outlandish and overdone genre fiction. It is filled with jokes, puns, and fresh dairy products.Also included is an excerpt from "Dr. Zombie Lives Next Door", a humorous novel for middle grade readers to be published in the Summer of 2011.

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    Murmuration

      T. J. Klune
     Murmuration

1954. Something's happening in the idyllic town of Amorea—Mike hears voices and sees shadows and flocks of birds invisible to everyone else. And no matter what, Mike must protect the man he loves.

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    The Donut Effect

      Richards Hall
     The Donut Effect

After yet more, maybe too much more, opening 'next page' preamble the action begins with the first points of zones one and three, The Donut Effect and The Blood Cafe. Happy reading.Let the entertainment commence. Finally. The starting point is baaaQ travel, a timeless trip to the past so fast you couldn’t make or leave a mess. If messy it wants, if messy it gets, it’s after the fact, and it’s always after the fact. Run, fact, run. Check, fact, check, mate.

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    Dickory Cronke

      Daniel Defoe
     Dickory Cronke

Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 [?] â€" April 24 [?], 1731)[1] was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.

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    Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

      Stephanie Perkins
     Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Summer Days & Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair and grab your sunglasses. You have twelve reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love.

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    Fade to Black

      Alex Flinn
     Fade to Black

Three perspectives -- one truth The victim: After his windshield was shattered with a baseball bat, HIV-positive Alex Crusan ducked under the steering wheel. But he knows what he saw. Now he must decide what he wants to tell. The witness: Daria Bickell never lies. So if she told the police she saw Clinton Cole do it, she must have. But did she really? The suspect: Clinton was seen in the vicinity of the crime that morning. And sure, he has problems with Alex. But he'd never do something like this. Would he?

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    The Relatives

      Christina Dodd
     The Relatives

New York Times Bestseller Christina Dodd brings you an all-new e-short story in her acclaimed Virtue Falls suspense series with… THE RELATIVES! What would you do when uninvited relatives drop by your home and stay … and stay … and stay? Watch out! From THE RELATIVES: Gwen put her hand on the cloisonné tray with the bottle, the cork pull, and the two gold-rimmed crystal glasses. "As a welcome gift, we left you an appetizer tray and wine from one of Washington's finest wineries. The Chardonnay is one of our favorites, so we hope you will enjoy it." Cecily sighed wistfully. "If only I could. But my acid reflux won't allow me to drink the tiniest drop of liquor of any kind." "I'm sorry to hear that." Gwen was pretty sure she didn't give a damn. "It's really okay. I'll be the one laughing when you drinkers destroy your livers." Gwen, and her liver, were speechless. Get THE RELATIVES now!

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    Gracie Faltrain Gets It Right (Finally)

      Cath Crowley
     Gracie Faltrain Gets It Right (Finally)

As Gracie begins Year 12, she has only one thing on her mind, and it's not school work. It's not even Martin, now that he's dumped her for the third time. It's soccer: a new season, a new team, a new league. This is the big time, the state trials, and Gracie can't wait. Except there's one small problem. She's no longer the biggest fish in the pond, and one of the other players is the cousin of her arch enemy, Annabelle Orion. Gracie wants to get it right this year, but everything seems to be going wrong – she hardly has time to see her friends, Martin won't talk to her, and she's falling even further behind at school. Gracie needs help both on and off the field, but when it shows up, it is not from the person she expected...

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    Into the Beautiful North

      Luis Alberto Urrea
     Into the Beautiful North

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magníficos"--to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.

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    Gone

      Lisa Gardner
     Gone

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lisa Gardner's Love You More. From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye....When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it's the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver's seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.Did one of the ghosts from Rainie's troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they'd been working-- a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart? Together with his daughter, FBI...

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