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Deshler Dean is only at his brilliant best when he's blackout drunk.

Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.

In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.

Having sworn off romance, Sheriff Boone Taylor is content with his quiet, orderly life. But then a city woman buys land butting up to his, and Boone begins to rethink matters of the heart.

All of North America is covered in ash after the eruption in Yellowstone, and Colin Ferguson's family is scattered across the United States.

The forces of the demonic Prusias are threatening Rowan--and help from Astaroth is far from assured.

As punishment for their perpetual infighting, the Nerd Girls and the ThreePees (Pretty, Popular, Perfect) must compete together in the Academic Septhalon.

After escaping prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings are taken in by the Resistance but when Ember tops the government's most-wanted list, Chase urges her to run and Ember must decide whethe

Thompson's three short stories are as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991.

Tamia, Troy and Tasha, three New York City "It Girls," must try to balance life, love and their careers while they search for something, or someone, to believe in.

O'Conner needs a place to hole up after an especially bloody job. Tooling his sputtering motorcycle into the suburban community of Willow Ridge, he expects to find a place of refuge.

Two stories about women and their bad men, featuring Melody, who hires Scotty to take care of her cheating husband, but winds up seeking revenge, and Blake, who turns to her kingpin father's e

Ex-stripper Mink is once again on the make after blowing through the cash she scored off the Dominions.

When Rachel Case goes to the doctor for a routine blood test, scientists are astonished to learn she possesses a gene no one else on earth seems to have--a gene that holds the key to protecting the

The picaresque adventures of a folk singer named Norwood Pratt on a cross-country trip from Texas to Manhattan in the 1960s.