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The Good People of Coralville by Lazette Gifford

    MARCH: THE GOOD PEOPLE OF CORALVILLE   Chapter 1   Thursday Mr. Hunt prayed over the bowl of cereal, while Tony studied the edge of the ratty tablecloth, ignoring the droning voice. He muttered "Amen" in unison with his foster parents, and reached toward his spoon. That usually kept them happy. But when he looked up today, Mister Hunt still scowled. The older, gray-haired man tossed a neatly folded newspaper across the table, nearly knocking the corn flakes…
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Easter Fires by JP Rakov

Kat Dueschner is determined to be the opposite of her heavenly-minded mother. She wants to be an adventurer rather than a nurturing mom and, as a result, Kat frequently gets into mischief. Joining her companion, Juan, on a night-time adventure to build an Easter fire in the hills, Kat is bit by a rattlesnake. Although her mother is leery of entering the forest, she rescues her daughter only to befall her own tragedy. The situation makes such an impression on…
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Alien Thought by Dan Donoghue

    Chapter 1 Where does a story start? Where amongst all the tiny quirks of fate is the beginning of those events? Did it start with a dead bird and a dying dog? Or did it start on a Saturday morning with a moment of lust, a moment of lust in the bright sunshine? It was a small thing on which to pivot so many lives, but I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had not felt…
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A Heartstopper Horror: Felicity’s Curse by Robin Helene Vogel

( Continue the series:   "The Loch Ness Monster!" Daddy chuckled.  "Big, green, mean, lives in the ocean and feeds off people faster than you can say 'jaws'!" "Bigfoot!" Mom said.  "Tall, dark, not at all handsome, very hairy.  Every mother's nightmare--leaves huge, muddy footprints wherever he goes!" "Dracula!" Frankie exclaimed.  In a thick, terrible accent, he said, "He vants to suck your blood and prefers A positive to any other flavor!" "Casper the Friendly Ghost," Tracy said weakly.  "Doesn't…
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A Beth-Hill Novel: Jacob Lane Series by Jennifer St. Clair

Are creatures of the night and all manner of extramundane beings drawn to certain locations in the natural world? In the Midwestern village of Beth-Hill located in southern Ohio, the population is made up of its fair share of common citizens...and much more than its share of supernatural residents.   Jacob Lane has spent her life unaware of her magical heritage. After being sent to Darkbrook, a school of magic, supernatural mysteries seem to spring to life all around her…
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Dinosaur Murder by Patricia Bernard

  Chapter 1 The floater, as Damien whisperingly called it, drifted closer. Two more rippling waves and it would bump into Abba. She edged away, the pool was small and there was no more room on their submerged ledge. "Can you see it?" shouted a voice. "No," yelled the man who was standing immediately above them on the overhanging rock. Abba wondered if he was the man they'd seen hit the floater with a hammer and continue hitting him as…
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The Mask by Patricia Bernard

      CHAPTER 1 It happened in a second. One moment he was behind his father, the next he was surrounded by a group of shrieking, cackling, masked ghouls with his father nowhere in sight. He tried to break through but they linked arms and blocked his way. Three in monks' capes and skeleton masks leered into his face, giggling evilly. Two wearing blank white masks beneath pirate hats wriggled white-gloved fingers under his nose. A harlequin in a…
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Nightmare Island Series by Stella Drexler

Somewhere off the coast of Connecticut is a mysterious island community. To the mainlanders, Flicker Island is a quiet, innocuous community where the citizens live simple lives and rarely venture from their insular shores.   To the residents of the island, it is a place where lies become reality, storms are conjured from a cloudless sky, treachery is second nature, and your dreams can kill you...   Book 1: False Awakening Mia Burke's life was pretty ordinary; that is, until…
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Wildvine Series by Michelle Levigne

In multiple worlds, universes and dimensions of reality, there are tales of Hub Worlds, where many different realms can meet and intersect. Some travel between worlds through the power of the mind and Talents born into the blood, while others are chosen through vision and prophecy and step between worlds with the power of talismans. None can go to the others' worlds, except when they meet in a Hub World.   Wildvine County, somewhere in the United States, is that…