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By day, the park rings with the sound of children's excited laughter.

When Selah Ropp returns to Birch Creek, she is a different person than when she left. I know I haven't done much listening in the past, Lord, she prays. But I'm listening now.

When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars.

Meet the picture-perfect Bird family: pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and towheaded twins Rory and Rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart.

Scottish Highlands, 1329.

Strike One: My mother named me Theodore after her favorite chipmunk. Not cool, Mom. I've spent most of my life answering to Teddy because I couldn't make Theo work. Except for here. College.

Good neighbors invite you over for dinner, bring you baked goods to welcome you to the neighborhood, and wave hello at the mailbox. Good neighbors do not destroy your life.

Harry Gilmore has no idea of the terrible danger he faces when he meets a beautiful girl in a local student bar.

Hollis Bisbee used to be a big-city crime reporter. Now, she's a small-town journalist, and she's bored.

It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended.

Completing the World Fantasy Award-winning author's darkly comic trilogy, The Eternal Footman brings us into a future world in which God's skull is in orbit, competing with the moon, and

Teenage burn survivor Wilder Tate begins high school ashamed of his disfigurement.

Ruby Dunkin is in an abusive marriage. Her best efforts aren't enough to shield her two children from an abusive father whose cruelty knows no bounds.

From ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, the haunting tale of a mysterious doll discovered in a young girl's garden, and its owner, a girl from seventy years in the past, who wants it back.

When the Council suddenly starts assigning Liv Beaufont dangerous cases, she's automatically suspicious. Do they want her dead?