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A COLLECTION OF FINE
LITERATURE THAT BEFITS
THE COZY SEASON
 AND THEN THERE
WERE NONE
First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned
as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon.
Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is
nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a
wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal
their fate. For each has been marked for murder.
 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green
Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthberts send her
back to to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected—a skinny
girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to
let her stay, she'll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and
blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. Anne is not like anyone else,
the Cuthberts agree; she is special—a girl with an enormous imagination. This
orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables.
 THE BOOKSHOP ON THE
CORNER
Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect
book is her passion… and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she
was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more.

Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village
many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile
—a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood,
changing one life after another with the power of storytelling.
 THE COMPLETE TALES AND
POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and
poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted
genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures
in American literary history.
 THE COMPLETE TALES OF
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection
features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical
creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific
and cautionary science-fiction themes that have
influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers.
 DEATH BY PUMPKIN SPICE
As if a run-in with an old flame and a failed marriage proposal weren’t enough
to horrify Krissy for one night, a woman is found strangled to death in a room
filled with ominous jack-o’-lanterns. All signs suggest a crime of passion—but
when the hostess’s jewelry disappears, malevolent intentions seem way more
likely . . .
 
With the estate on lockdown and a killer roaming the halls, Krissy must help
Officer Paul Dalton investigate each nook, cranny, and guest for answers—while
also confronting a few demons of her own. Someone has lots of skeletons in the
closet, and Krissy better tread lightly to expose them . . .
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana
Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the
course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of
witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive
glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her
discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons,
witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has
stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only
creature who can break its spell.
 DRACULA*
Young lawyer Jonathan Harker journeys to Transylvania to
meet with the mysterious Count Dracula only to discover
that his nobleman client is a vampire who is thirsty for
new blood. After imprisoning Harker in his castle, Dracula
travels to England to seduce Jonathan’s fiancée, Mina, and
the battle against an ineffable evil begins.

*have read before

 THE GRAVEYARD BOOK
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he
would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and
educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of
the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod
in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone
entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and
so much more. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is
there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.
 INTERVIEW WITH A
VAMPIRE
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his
journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts
how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and
sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated,
unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. 
 HOUSE OF LEAVES
The story focuses on a young family that moves into a small home on
Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their
house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson

nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of
that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and
their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of
an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl
which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their
dreams.  This is that crazy weird book that doesn’t read
like a normal book.
 JANE EYRE
Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her
courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she
has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward
Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in
love. Hard.

But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall.
Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken and exiled once
again?

*have read before

 LITTLE WOMEN
Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically
frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy,
united in their devotion to each other and their struggles
to survive in New England during the Civil War.
 THE NIGHT CIRCUS
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is
simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped
canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements.
It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two
young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood
expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to
them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is
but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. 
 NINTH HOUSE*
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the
Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world
of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in
fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s
thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one
of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her
mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight
windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from
high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult
activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid
imagination might conceive.
*have read before
 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy she is repelled by his
overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the
Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of
husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr. Bingley, forms
an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid.
Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of
friendship, rivalry, and love
 STORM FRONT*
Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what
he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or
capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full
of strange and magical things—and most don't play well with humans. That's
where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a—well, whatever. There's just one
problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.

So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed
with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic,
there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's
when things start to get interesting.

*have read before

 THE STRANGE CASE OF
THE ALCHEMIST’S
DAUGHTER
Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of
her father’s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s
former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading
to his capture…a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes.

But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With
the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the
elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through
terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.

When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and
power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past return. Now it is up to the monsters to
finally triumph over the monstrous.
 THE SPELLBOOK OF
KATRINA VAN TASSEL
When Ichabod Crane arrives in the spooky little village of Sleepy Hollow as the
new schoolmaster, Katrina Van Tassel is instantly drawn to him. Through their
shared love of books and music, they form a friendship that quickly develops into
romance. Ichabod knows that as an itinerant schoolteacher of little social standing,
he has nothing to offer the wealthy Katrina – unlike her childhood friend-turned-
enemy, Brom Van Brunt, who is the suitor Katrina’s father favors.

But when romance gives way to passion, Ichabod and Katrina embark on a secret
love affair, sneaking away into the woods after dark to be together – all while
praying they do not catch sight of Sleepy Hollow’s legendary Headless Horseman.
That is, until All Hallows’s Eve, when Ichabod suddenly disappears, leaving
Katrina alone and in a perilous position.
 SOMETHING WICKED THIS
WAY COMES
For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the
hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin.
Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town,
Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery.
The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a
week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive
promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret
of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too
well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.
 STALKING JACK THE
RIPPER
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter,
with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between
the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.

Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often
slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of
forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses
drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for
answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.
 WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the
bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at
Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the
history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the
intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and
Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between
passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton,
surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness
and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their
innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.