New writings-on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us-from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood...
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Author: Scott, JoannaSummary:Genre: General fiction, Short stories
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Author: Morrow, BradfordSummary:
New writings on our fear of-and fascination with-the "other" from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are...
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Author: JENKINS, JanetteSummary:
In January 1914, Jonathan Crane returns home to his village in the north of England with a rare thing - a beautiful, glamorous American bride. Beatrice struggles to adapt to this cold, grey place...
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Author: YOUNG, FelicitySummary:
A chat room stalking, pedophile ring, murder investigation set in Perth Western Australia, featuring a female detective. When the body of 11-year-old Bianca Webster is found dumped it is soon...
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Author: HARRISON, KateSummary:
When self-confessed scaredycat Jo Morgan survives a hit and run accident, she realises she has beaten the odds. Maybe a bit of living dangerously is just what she needs. But unlearning a...
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Author: SIMMS, MariaSummary:
Set in Sydney in the nineteenth century, when Henry Parkes asked Florence Nightingale for trained nurses to reform the previously turgid and oppressive hospital system in the fledgling colony....
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Author: Weldon, Fay.Summary:
Sappho was so happy when she married Gavin. She was in love and it seemed that at last everything was falling into place. But she hadn't considered his daughter, Isobel. Now cast in the role...
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Author: Smith, FrankSummary:
This is the new DCI Neil Paget mystery. Holbrook Micro-Engineering Labs is owned jointly by Simon and Laura Holbrook. When Laura Holbrook is brutally murdered one evening while her husband, Simon...
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Author: Morgan, JudeSummary:
At the Devonshire estate of Pennacombe House, Sir Clement Carnell ensures his children enjoy themselves as little as possible. They soon discover when he dies that a world of possibilites awaits...
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Author: Walton, TasmaSummary:
Heartless opens with a girl who is faced with life
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Author: Fraser, AntheaSummary:
What links three very different people, and who is the mysterious stranger whose appearance in their lives seems to cause such terror?
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Author: J.G. FarrellSummary:
In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then...
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Author: SHEREZ, StavSummary:
When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery, echoing two murders committed...
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Author: ROBB, J. D.Summary:
A phone call from up high interrupts Eve's plans to have a lazy day with her husband: The teenage daughter of Captain Jonah McMasters, head of the NYPD drug squad, has been found raped and...
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Author: du Maurier, DaphneSummary:
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as...