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From Matt Shaw comes the story of a new breed of serial killer - a stranger who travels the country kidnapping his victims before torturing them and discarding them in a field, dressed up as scarecrows.

When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs and predatory men, and suddenly a teenager is on trial in this spellbinding novel from the #1 New York Times...

Set in a small coal-mining town, a debut novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and two courageous women make choices that will challenge our own moral convictions.

An opportunist act throws a disturbed teenager into conflict with local drug dealers, and headlong into a covert drugs operation. Something happened to trigger her self-destructive descent, but what? Was she abused? Is she amoral? Why would the child of politician choose to live on the streets rather than have a Maserati for her 18th birthday? DI Redwall is determined to find out, and save this lost child, but Jessie's chances of survival seem slim.

What really happened during the 1790 Battle of Kekionga that took place in pre-Fort Wayne, Indiana? Was Harmar's Defeat really a failure? What led the militias from Pennsylvania and Kentucky to join the first American army after the Revolutionary War, to venture deep into Native American territory? Follow the adventures of E. J. and his Uncle Isaac along with General Harmar, Little Turtle, and others. Hear the insights, feel the emotions, and experience the drama that few people know about.

At some point in our lives, we think new thoughts that we can't unthink. What happens if we notice those new thoughts? Our box view changes. And when the box view changes, will we lose our wonder and awe, or will we discover a deeper spark? Spark Eyes is a short parable to help you find the courage to change in your own time and in your own way.

Despite carrying the scars of childhood trauma, Mary McAllister has enjoyed a successful career and become the mother of two wonderful children. Then their deadbeat father leaves, her young daughter dies, and she is hospitalized in a psychiatric center as she seeks to recover from this devastating loss. But she is not the same when she is released—and during escalating periods of crisis, she claims to be possessed by Z-DA, an evil creature from a distant galaxy that has come to earth in a war almost as old as the universe itself with Ordo, leader of a good species.

The novel begins when the man who assaulted Andrew Harrison’s sister is released from prison. Benjamin Williams was barely more than a kid when he was sentenced to 11 years, but it is impossible to know what he has become since. Andrew, nicknamed H, is compelled to learn for himself when his uncle Billy hands him a gun and says to go find the man. As H’s interest in Williams grows, he struggles to keep his world in balance.

A young married couple hires a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy; they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A - maid, nanny, and confidante - becomes the glue in their household and, over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. The delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora A is diagnosed with lung cancer.