Tom Berry
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One of the most popular pieces of American fiction is Washington Irving s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, originally published in 1820 in Irving s short story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Set in New York s Hudson River valley after the American Revolution, it is rich with Dutch culture, regional history, and ghost stories. In schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his adversary the Headless Horseman, Irving created two of the most unforgettable...
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A fearsomely independent teenage girl who is always willing to help out the people she cares about by often using her expert computer hacking skills even if it means sometimes breaking the law. Now on the run with the cops on her trail for being accused of a mysterious older man's death, Holly makes it her mission to clear her name and find the man who murdered her best friend.
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A strange carnival brings terror to the population of a small midwestern town. Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind, as has this one Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and...
4) The unsaid
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A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to risk everything in a race against time to unearth the patient's secrets from a gruesome past.
5) Guilty
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When seventeen-year-old Traci is lured into believing one of her friends was sexually assaulted by a teacher, she makes the mistake of lying to support the girl's story and is consumed with guilt when the teacher then commits suicide. But this is just the beginning. Caught up in a web of deceit, Traci befriends and confides in a female teacher that's more connected to the scam than Traci realizes, putting the girl in danger.