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Timothy, Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile

Verlyn Klinkenborg

Verlyn Klinkenborg traces the natural history of tortoises through the story of Timothy, a tortoise who lived in the garden of eighteenth-century English curate Gilbert White for thirteen years while

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Solstice Wood

Patricia A. McKillip

Los Angeles bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn is summoned to upstate New York to attend her grandfather's funeral and finds herself the center of a conflict between the Fiber Guild, a clique of women who me

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Lisey's Story

Stephen King

Two years after the death of her husband Scott, celebrated author Lisey Debusher Landon sets out to sort through his papers and finds herself drawn into the nightmare world where Scott got his inspira

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Eldest

Christopher Paolini

After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to Ellesmera to finish his Dragon Rider training.

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Poison

Chris Wooding

When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various

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Poison

Chris Wooding

When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various

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The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of just

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Murkmere

Patricia Elliott

A village girl, newly companion to the Master's ward in the days following the Ministration, challenges the motives of the religious leaders of the Divine Beings, the birds.

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Son of a Witch

Gregory Maguire

Liir, believed to be the son of Elphaba the wicked witch of the West, has been spared from the destruction of Emerald City and nursed back to health at the Cloister of Saint Glinda; and when he is gro

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Mirror Mirror

Gregory Maguire

Presents a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, set in early sixteenth-century Italy, in which the life of innocent, young Bianca de Nevada is disrupted when her beloved father is sent on an errand

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