David Ledoux
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
2) Freedom
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
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Neighbors wonder what is going on when Patty and Walter Berglund, once an ideal couple and perfect parents, begin to unravel, with their son moving in with the Republicans next door, Walter, an environmental lawyer, taking a job in the coal industry, and Patty becoming unhinged.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill's award-winning collection 20 th Century Ghosts . Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945 ... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to...
4) The Cape
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Every little boy dreams about putting on a cape and soaring up, up, and away... but what if one day that dream were to come true? Eric was like every other eight-year-old boy, until a tragic accident changed his life forever. The Cape explores the dark side of power, as the adult Eric–a confused and broken man–takes to the skies... and sets out to exact a terrible vengeance on everyone who ever disappointed him.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story-from Joe Hill's award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make...
6) Dead-Wood
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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story-from Joe Hill's award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945.... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make...
7) Last Breath
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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.
Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .
Arthur Roth
...8) Shiver
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
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Even sweet cowboys have a sinful side…
Robert Lawson-Bubba to his friends-has a panty-melting voice and a face made to launch a country music career. But when his family's ranch hands can't get to work, Robert returns to Lonesome Point to help out. Fortune and fame are good, but family and friends come first.
Besides, he's ready to enjoy some off-the-clock time with his manager, Marisol…
A scandal with one of her clients nearly destroyed Marisol...
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Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall...
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As your resident bad boy Fake Boyfriend For Hire, I've got what it takes to make your dangerous ex think twice before he knocks on your door again.
Or I thought I did, until I meet my latest client...
Now my one-that-got-away is looking up at me with her big green eyes, daring me to take on an ex as dangerous as hers. But all I want to do is take her--again and again.
Soon Cat and I are medaling in the Big O Olympics. Everything is golden, except...
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The home run neither of them expected…
Pike Sherman is a legend, a hometown boy who made it to the big leagues. Literally. Professional baseball acquired one hell of a pitching arm when the gifted Pike was drafted seven years ago. Pike's broken heart came along for the ride, too, but he kept that private, and since leaving Lonesome Point has kept his distance from his hometown.
But when his sister, Mia, begs him to be the Dude of Honor at her...
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Brandon Vale is a career thief, the best there is. Of course, he is serving out a prison term for a robbery gone bad-albeit one that he didn't commit. But then he is broken out of prison against his will by Richard Scanlon, the former FBI agent who framed him in the first place. Scanlon, who still has ties to the U.S. intelligence community, has discovered that a Ukrainian crime organization is auctioning twelve nuclear warheads to the highest bidder,...
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In 2010 imports accounted for 86% of America's seafood, 50% of its fresh fruit, and 18% of its fresh vegetables. Americans are now importing twice as much food as we were a decade ago. But what does this increased reliance on imported food mean for the people around the globe that produce our food the people that feed us? In the vein of the author's first book Where am I Wearing?, Where Am I Eating? will bridge the gap between global farmers and fisherman...