The Amazing Arden is the most notorious female illusionist of her day, renowned for sawing a man in half. One night, with policeman Virgil Holt in the audience, she swaps her saw for a fire ax. A new trick or an all-too-real murder? When a dead body is discovered, the answer seems clear. But under Holt's interrogation, what Arden’s story reveals is both unbelievable and spellbinding. Even handcuffed and alone, she is far from powerless. During one eerie night, Holt must decide whether to turn Arden in or set her free… and it will take all he has to see through the smoke and mirrors.
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“Elizabeth Blackwell is a story-telling genius. Her mesmerizing writing weaves a spell that will enchant you. While Beauty Slept breathes new life into the fairytale genre with a historical twist that will take your breath away.” —Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Heather Wells mystery series
I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. Those of humble birth suffer their heartbreaks and celebrate their triumphs unnoticed by the bards, leaving no trace in the fables of their time…
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Elegantly simple fairy tales of strangeness and wonder from a master of the form.
No one has done more for the contemporary fairy tale than Kate Bernheimer. In eight new stories, she leads us into a forest of everyday magic and misfits, where dinosaurs wear pajamas and talking dolls ruin your life. Elegant and brutal, Bernheimer’s latest collection locates the existential loveliness of ideas amidst the topsy-turvy logic of things. This collection renews classic stories with intelligent wonder. Like one of Bernheimer’s girls, whose hands of steel turn to flowers, the reader will marvel.
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Hailed by the New York Times as a “must-read in the world of thrillers” and described by the Los Angeles Times as “a propulsive A-train of a thrill ride,” Chris Pavone’s The Accident instantly garnered rave reviews coast-to-coast. At the heart of this riveting novel is veteran literary agent Isabel Reed. She has received a mysterious, anonymous manuscript that delivers explosive revelations about media mogul Charlie Wolfe and his ties to the CIA—and to a shocking crime committed in his youth. In Copenhagen, operative Hayden Gray is on a mission to eliminate all copies of the damaging manuscript,
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It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, amid squalls of driving rain, Jessie is on the run.
Born wild and brave, by twenty-six she has already lived life as a circus rider, a horse and cattle rustler, and a convict. Yet on this fateful night she is just a woman wanting to survive—though there is barely any life left in her.
She mounts her horse and points it toward the highest mountain in sight. Soon bands of men will crash through the bushland, desperate to claim the reward on her head. And in their wake will be two more men—one her lover,
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Doctor Who meets Sherlock in the first book of a thrilling series featuring a detective of the supernatural, R.F. Jackaby, and his assistant, Abigail Rook. Now available in paperback. And look for Beastly Bones, the second Jackaby novel, available September 22nd.
A Top Ten Fall 2014 Kids’ Indie Next List Pick
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A 2014 Kirkus Review Best Book for Young Adults
A 2015 YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults Title
A 2015 Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner
Alone and newly arrived in New Fiddleham,
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