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  The Ghostly Quilts on Main

  Ann Hazelwood

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  “A light, fun read . . . Hazelwood does a great job of keeping your interest as you wonder what each ghost might do. Her characters are well developed.” —Journal-Advocate 
   
  In this fifth novel of the Colebridge Community Series, busy flower shop owner Anne Brown Dickson takes on the task of helping fellow shop owners on Main Street. A unique quilt show develops that impacts the street throughout the fall and winter season. In the process, Anne is reluctantly assisted by a host of ghostly participants. On the home front, Grandmother initiates some activities of her own that may reap some harmful results. All is not gloom and doom, however, as Anne makes changes to her business and best friend, Nancy, has some upcoming changes of her own. 
   
  Praise for Ann Hazelwood and the Colebridge Community Series 
   
  “I found myself immersed in the tale of this extended family and this wonderful quaint town . . . You will laugh, cry and share in their hopes and dreams.” —Community News 
   
  “Ann Hazelwood knows a few things about the human spirit, family and dreaming big. Add a mixture of the love of quilting and all the things Missouri historic and otherwise; you will experience the words and passion of this unique and gifted author. Enjoy the experience!”—StreetScape Magazine

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  Heaven Burns

  Jen McGregor

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  Heaven Burns is a historical novella, dramatising one of the most barbarous practices prevalent in Restoration Scotland.
  It is 1662 and Scotland suffers a scourge of witches. What else could explain the wars, the plagues, the storms?
  Runaway housewife Isobel has a duty to do, acting as clerk to John Dixon, the finest witchpricker in the country. She's sure it's what God wants her to do. She's sure she can keep her growing feelings for Dixon in check.
  When a stranger appears telling wild tales of stolen names and false identities, Isobel's loyalty is put to the test. Is the stranger telling her of a great wrong to be put right, or sent from Hell to thwart the witch hunts?
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  The background to Heaven Burns is very real. Research estimates that between 1590 and 1622, around 1,000 women may have been executed in Scotland for witchcraft, and many more tried.
  In Scotland, under the second King Charles, and especially after the passing of the 1649 Witchcraft Act, local religious leaders began hunt and execute witches. Once a woman had been accused of witchcraft, all that was needed by the local minister was a confession. Instead of a confession however, women could be condemned through the use of witchpricking.
  Just as it sounds, witch pricking was a vicious practice, which involved pricking accused women with various needles in order to obtain proof of witchcraft.
  The cover and interior illustrations of Heaven Burns show an imaginative rendering of some of the witchpricker's accoutrements and chattels
  As well as being brutally drawn in places, Heaven Burns is also a story of passion. It is excellently researched, for anyone interested in historical fiction, especially around the period of Scottish witch hunting.

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  Stories From The Shadows – The...

  Alfred Lichtenstein, E T A...

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  An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.  
  But where do these ideas and stories come from?  A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form?  An inspiration from a Muse?  A suggestion from an everyday event? 
  Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work.  They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you.

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  Witch Wood

  John Buchan

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  …for Witch Wood specially I am always grateful; all that devilment sprouting up out of a beginning like Galt's Annals of the Parish. That's the way to do it. — C. S. Lewis Published in 1927, Scottish writer John Buchan's Witch Wood is set in a rural parish located in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The story centers around newly-ordained minister David Sempill's arrival in Woodilee in the wake of the Church of Scotland's acceptance of the Solemn League and Covenant and explores themes and issues surrounding religious tolerance and seventeenth-century Calvinism. With pagan rituals, an outbreak of the plague, and rumors about fairies and the devil, Witch Wood also delves into the supernatural and occult. Written while doing research for his biography of Scottish nobleman James Graham, the 1st Marquess of Montrose, Witch Wood is considered Buchan's masterpiece by scholars and critics. Read by Scottish narrator Angus King, this audio edition maintains sections of dialogue originally written and published in Scots.

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  Dead America: Seattle Rebuild...

  Derek Slaton

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  In the wake of a daring attack on a transport train, former Texas Ranger Atticus Windward is sent to investigate and deal with the perpetrators. 
  Dead America - The Second Month series follows survivors from coast to coast as they deal with the threats posed by both the living and the undead.

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  The Sight Eater

  Brian Dale Babiak MD

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  For Justyna Kowalski, who lost her sight as a child, the world is a map of sounds and textures. So when a freak accident allows her to see by consuming a human eye, she doesn't just embrace the miracle—she starts a spreadsheet. In a gritty, mutated Warsaw where the grotesque has become mundane, she rates each borrowed glimpse of the world for clarity, duration, and side effects, sourcing her supply from a semi-legal food truck called "Eye Scream." 
  Her quest for a more reliable specimen leads her not on a desperate hunt, but to a Consumers Anonymous support group. There she meets Tomasz, a gentle math teacher who is also a "Class 3 Renewable Resource," uncontrollably growing surplus eyes. What begins as the perfect symbiotic partnership—complete with labeled Tupperware and five-star quality ratings—soon becomes a deeply practical love story. Aided by her best friend Paulina, a human chaos agent, their life is a strange, tender, and darkly funny balance of body horror and domestic bliss. 
  But their carefully cataloged life is threatened by the Department of Genetic Anomalies—not a shadowy cabal, but an absurdly meticulous bureaucracy that demands compliance. Forced into a thirty-day abstinence challenge to prove their love isn't "exploitative," they must navigate their bond without the very act that defines it. 
  The Sight Eater is a hilarious and strangely moving novel about the mundane logistics of the monstrous, the comedy of state-sponsored paperwork, and a love that requires not just passion, but also excellent refrigeration and a very good rating system.

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