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Kisser: A Stone Barrington Novel
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Product DescriptionPurchase includes free access to book online updates and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can choose from more than a million books at no cost. Excerpt: Jenna Heap is a leading character in the book series Septimus Heap by Angie Sage. She is the adoptive sister of Septimus and the adoptive daughter of Silas and Sarah Heap Heap. Jenna has many friends in the book, but also a lot of enemies. Although she recognizes they are not her real family, Jenna loves her adoptive family very much – this includes her seven brothers, Benji her grandfather, her mother and father and her aunt Zelda. Jenna is a young princess (or queen Ling as some of her enemies call her), with deep violet eyes. . . Read more>>
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Product DescriptionHe is a charming monster. . . A macabre hero. . . A serial killer who only kills bad people Dexter Morgan has been under great pressure. It’s just not easy being an ethical serial killer-especially while trying to avoid suspicions of the firm dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac … Which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-splash analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now invests almost all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the first Canadian. . . Read more>>
Dearly Devoted Dexter: A Novel
Product DescriptionFor the first 10 years of his life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this novel real life of her granddaughter, walls, lived in a dirt dugout in West Texas. Walls, whose mega-selling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own childhood, writes in what she recalls as Lily’s outspoken voice, which reasons are given lots of drama and excitement as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been trained in attack and starts because of her parents’ poverty Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote border town, she reaches for a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist juices almost her spirit, but later she married a rancher, which she shares two children and one strain of plucky resilience. (They sell … More>>
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