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8) Scare me
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Two strangers, Fred and Fanny, are stuck in their Catskills cabin during a power outage. Looking to pass the time, they decide to tell each other scary stories. But the more Fred and Fanny commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life. As the horrors of reality manifest, Fred confronts his ultimate fear that Fanny may be the better storyteller, forcing him to craft the most horrific tale imaginable and put an end to the competition for...
10) Rip Van Winkle
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Series
Language
English
Description
An idle man falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains only to wake up twenty years later, bewildered as to how life passed him by. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.
11) Christy
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...
Author
Series
The Lakeshore chronicles volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As single father Logan O'Donnell prepares to give his son, Charlie, the best Christmas ever on the shores of Willow Lake, he may be in for a Christmas surprise himself, in the form of sharp-witted and independent Darcy Fitzgerald.
Author
Publisher
D. R. Godine
Language
English
Description
"A rewritten and revised edition of the original Great Camps of the Adirondacks originally published by Godine in 1984. In this edition, Kaiser defines "Adirondack Rustic Style" as an influential aesthetic movement in architecture and describes its development in the Adirondack region, particularly in the "Great Camps", often large rustic retreats built and maintained by the wealthy. He charts their development and recent efforts to restore, preserve,...
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Language
English
Description
This special edition includes new material: a tribute by Newbery Medal winner and Printz Honor winner Clare Vanderpool, a letter from Wilson Rawls to aspiring writers, original jacket artwork, and a biography of Wilson Rawls written in January 1985.
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
17) Wrong turn
Language
English
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Description
Backwoods terror and nerve-jangling suspense meet when Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course, and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return, unless Jen’s father can reach them...
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English
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Until he hung up his gun belts to raise a family, Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man...and a force of nature. But Lee Slater and his gang of lowlife desperadoes didn't know that. Stirring up a mother lode of trouble for the retired gunslinger was Slater's first mistake. Shooting Smoke Jensen's wife Sally was his second. He wasn't going to live to make a third.
20) Lover's leap
Author
Series
Eternity Springs novel volume 32
Language
English
Description
When Sarah, the woman he once loved, unexpectedly comes back into his life, along with the daughter he never knew he had, former bad boy Cameron Murphy returns home to Eternity Springs to prove to Sarah, to the town, and to himself that everybody was wrong about him.