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The Stalker


Carol Ellis - 1996
    She dreams of the applause and the thrilling attention. A life on the stage is what she has always wanted. and she's not the only one. Someone else is stagestruck too - or more accurately starstruck...At first Janna thinks she is being followed by an obsessive fan. But she's not just receiving notes and flowers. Someone is playing games with her mind...and her life. Is the stalker trying to get closer to Janna...or is he making sure no one ever will?

On the Devil's Court


Carl Deuker - 1991
    Faustus, Joe considers the merits of selling his soul to the devil. Suddenly, he finds himself changing from a lousy basketball player and a C student to the star athlete he always dreamed he could be. Even though he isn't sure if he actually made a deal with the devil, he can't help but enjoy the benefits that come with his newfound abilities. But is achieving his dreams worth what he may have given up?In this coming of age sports novel, Joe learns the power of belief and that the only goals worth attaining are the ones that you earn -- on your own.

Driver's Dead


Peter Lerangis - 1994
    And the driver's ed classes aren't helping. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't get the hang of being behind the wheel. When Rob offers to give Kirsten a few tips on how to improve her driving, he turns up missing after the first lesson. Now Kirsten's getting a crash course--in murder.

The Impossible Medallion


Lila Segal - 2011
    At first, she writes all about the private jokes she shares with her best friend Sheila, and the grief she gets from her little brother RJ, who always gets into her stuff and never gets in trouble. But then, one morning, she realizes that the mysterious inscription on the old medallion she found when she was seven is written in her secret language! Join Janie as she explores the hidden mysteries of the medallion, while figuring out how to deal with Marcia the Snob, RJ, and even her mother - who always looks nice and doesn't understand how hard things can be when you're eleven.

The Seeding


David Shobin - 1982
    Sandra Fischer relaxes in bed. Moments later, when her husband enters the room — she is dead. One by one, the women are dying. The leading medical experts are baffled. There is only one clue: the rich, sweet scent of the tropics — the scent of life, seconds after each woman's shocking death.One dedicated doctor. One beautiful woman. Together they will enter an awesome new realm of medical knowledge beyond both life and death. For he will discover a terrifying secret. And she has been chosen for … THE SEEDING.

Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers


Alfred HitchcockMiriam Allen deFord - 1965
    Clair [writing as Idris Seabright ]• Henry Martindale, Great Dane (1954) • shortstory by Miriam Allen deFord• The Microscopic Giants (1936) • shortstory by Paul Ernst• The Young One (1954) • novelette by Jerome Bixby• Doomsday Deferred (1949) • shortstory by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins ]• "Shadow, Shadow, on the Wall ..." (1951) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon• The Desrick on Yandro (1952) • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman• The Wheelbarrow Boy (1950) • shortstory by Richard Parker• Homecoming (1946) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming)

The Fault In Our Stars: Book #2 Volume: 1 - When He Came Back: A Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters Parody (Young Love)


Josh Wyatt - 2014
    What happened to Hazel Grace when Augustus Waters died? Read volume: 1 of this story to find out... What happens when everything goes wrong? What happens when the boy who changed your life leaves his and your love story unfinished? Only Hazel Grace knew. Her heart sustained wounds of a lost love; it harbored the scars. Her mind cherished his memory, her lips remembered the taste of his and her entire body longed for his touch again, but she knew that he (Gus) was never coming back again, that was until the dreams began. There was something Gus needed to tell her, something he desperately needed her to know---a message he needed her to receive. Was the love that two star-crossed, teens shared strong enough to bridge the distance of death? Was it possible to find each other again from the other side of Gus's infinity? Hazel wasn't sure, but after hearing his voice inside her head and feeling his kiss on her cheek at night, while half-asleep she just might become a believer.

Morris Gleitzman Collection 5 Books Set (Once, Then, Now, After, Soon)


Morris Gleitzman
    Then In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape . Now Now is the third shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. Sometimes facing the past is the bravest act of all... ONCE I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood. After After is the fourth shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. After The Nazis took my parents I was scared After They killed my best friend I was angry After They ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined to get to the forest, to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli, to be a family, to defeat the Nazis after all Haunting . . . dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope' Soon The Second World War has officially ended, but the streets are still a battleground - for food, for shelter, for protection . . . Felix is in hiding to stay safe, but finds he has been left holding the baby - literally. An orphaned infant has been left in his care and he will do everything he can to protect the child, in the way a few incredible people did for him during the Holocaust. This powerfully moving addition to Morris Gleitzman's bestselling series about Felix and Zelda takes place in 1945, following the story told in After. This intensely affecting story will move readers of all ages.

The Grounding of Group 6


Julian F. Thompson - 1983
    What they don't immediately realize is that their parents do not plan for them to come out alive.

The Cunning Man


Celia Rees - 2000
    Overlooking the dramatic sweep of Westwater Bay, it brings back all her nightmare fears of drowning, of the ghosts of the dead reaching out for her… And Westwater is dangerous. Countless seafarers have lost their lives there, ships lost, broken on the vicious Viper Rocks, lured by wreckers’ false lights, summoned by the dark enchantments of cunning men – masters of sea or tide. Or so the legends say, but all that was a long time ago. It cannot be happening now. So why does Finn feel such fear? Is it her old terror back again, or something new entirely?

Cuentos de terror (Antología)


Mauricio MolinaH.P. Lovecraft - 1997
    Jacobs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Horacio Quiroga and H.P. Lovecraft.

Skinwalker: A Western Horror Novel


Michael Newton - 2015
    In Skinwalker, his quest takes him to Tularosa, New Mexico Territory, where a savage prowler striking on nights with full moons has slaughtered eighteen victims. Can Thorn identify and slay the predator before it claims more lives—including his

Louise Erdrich: Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves


Louise Erdrich - 2011
    

Being Dead


Vivian Vande Velde - 2001
    From the hilarious to the horrific, master storyteller Vivian Vande Velde explores the world of the dead--and the undead--in this surprisingly moving collection of unnerving tales.

House of Illusions


Ruby Jean Jensen - 1988
    It was there that she saw the clowns, with their large red noses, floppy shoes--and deadly grins. A hellish nightmare was about to begin. For these clowns craved terrified screams--not gleeful laughter--and were hungry for death!