Games to Keep the Dark Away

Games to Keep the Dark Away
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Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781609986124
ISBN-13 : 1609986121
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Games to Keep the Dark Away by : Marcia Muller

Picture Salmon Bay: an isolated, run-down northern California village, home to an idle fleet of fishing boats, a deserted amusement park, and a handful of secretive, even hostile residents. When private investigator Sharon McCone arrives in search of one of the town’s wayward daughters, the trail leads to the thriving resort of Port San Marco. McCone believes that the missing woman, a former social worker named Jane Anthony, was involved in the suspicious deaths of three terminally ill patients at an exclusive hospice. But the elusive Jane Anthony turns up all too soon—washed up beneath a rotting pier in her Salmon Bay. McCone discovers that no one—not her client, a reclusive photographer, nor Jane’s mother, nor her hospice employers—wants to find out why she died. Then the killer strikes again, Jane’s secret life comes into focus, and McCone finds that someone wants her out of the picture—permanently.

Dark, Bad Day... Go Away

Dark, Bad Day... Go Away
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 0979527406
ISBN-13 : 9780979527401
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Dark, Bad Day... Go Away by : Ana M. Gomez

Singing Away the Dark

Singing Away the Dark
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1897476418
ISBN-13 : 9781897476413
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Singing Away the Dark by : Caroline Woodward

It's a cold, windy winter morning and a little girl has to walk a mile to catch the school bus. Along the way, she faces wire gates, dark shadowy woods, a bull grazing with the cattle and many other scary things. Will she be able to sing her way through the dark morning? Lilting rhyming text by Caroline Woodward and stunning artwork by Julie Morstad complement each other perfectly in this whimsical, nostalgic story, creating the look and feel of a classic picture book.

Away from the Dark

Away from the Dark
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Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1503938727
ISBN-13 : 9781503938724
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Away from the Dark by : Aleatha Romig

Nine months ago, Sara Adams awoke with no memory. The man holding her hand told her she's a member of The Light, a tight-knit religious group led by the terrifying and charismatic Father Gabriel. As a woman in the community of The Light, her duty is to be unquestionably obedient and to submit to the will of her husband. But as Sara's memory starts to return and she remembers her past, she sees that everything she's been told is a lie. The Light is an insidious and dangerous organization, and its corrupting influence reaches well beyond the confines of the remote campus where Sara is being held. With everything at stake, Sara struggles to sort out her true memories from her indoctrination. The desire to escape consumes her, but who can she trust? And which other followers of The Light were forced into this life, brainwashed to believe they belonged? The more she remembers, the more it becomes clear that Jacob, the man who calls himself her husband, is keeping shattering secrets of his own. But Sara cannot flee alone, leaving innocents behind. She must fight to extinguish The Light.

Vacuum in the Dark

Vacuum in the Dark
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Publisher : Scribner
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781501182150
ISBN-13 : 1501182153
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Vacuum in the Dark by : Jen Beagin

From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life. Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke. Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend—a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story—and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable. Dark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster, either. There’s also the Hungarian artist couple who—with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares—reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood, and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth, Mona winds up on an eccentric, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future. The only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of. Jen Beagin’s Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable, astonishing read, “by turns nutty and forlorn…Brash, deadpan, and achingly troubled” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Beagin is “a wonderfully funny writer who also happens to tackle serious subjects” (NPR).

A Wish in the Dark

A Wish in the Dark
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781536211726
ISBN-13 : 1536211729
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis A Wish in the Dark by : Christina Soontornvat

A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man — the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one behind bars. The wealthy dine and dance under bright orb light, while the poor toil away in darkness. Worst of all, Pong’s prison tattoo marks him as a fugitive who can never be truly free. Nok, the prison warden’s perfect daughter, is bent on tracking Pong down and restoring her family’s good name. But as Nok hunts Pong through the alleys and canals of Chattana, she uncovers secrets that make her question the truths she has always held dear. Set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world, Christina Soontornvat’s twist on Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is a dazzling, fast-paced adventure that explores the difference between law and justice — and asks whether one child can shine a light in the dark.

The Weekend Away

The Weekend Away
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780008411879
ISBN-13 : 0008411875
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Weekend Away by : Sarah Alderson

***Now a Netflix Original movie, starring Leighton Meester, streaming globally.*** Miles from home. Trust no one. Suspect everyone.

Never Far Away

Never Far Away
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9780316535915
ISBN-13 : 0316535915
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Never Far Away by : Michael Koryta

The New York Times bestselling "master" (Stephen King) of American thriller writing returns with an electrifying new novel about a mother seeking to reconnect with her children after a terrible trial tears their family apart. Nina Morgan’s bloodstained car was found a decade ago on a lonely Florida road. Forensic evidence suggested she’d been murdered, although her body was never found. Her disappearance left her infant children to the care of their father. Once a pilot, mother, wife, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina had to flee her old life to save her family. She reinvented herself as Leah Trenton, a guide in the Allagash Wilderness in northern Maine. She never expected to see her children again, but now tragedy has returned them to her—only they have no idea that she’s their mother—and delivered all of them back into danger. “Aunt Leah” will need some help, and an old ally has a suggestion: an enigmatic young hitman named Dax Blackwell. Never Far Away is a thrilling collision between old sins and new dreams, where the wills and ingenuity of a broken family will be tested against all odds.

The Road

The Road
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Publisher : Vintage Books
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780307386458
ISBN-13 : 0307386457
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Road by : Cormac McCarthy

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity

Outer Dark

Outer Dark
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307762498
ISBN-13 : 0307762491
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Outer Dark by : Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.