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The Monster of Florence

by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi

Published: 2008

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The Monster of Florence

by Douglas Preston

Published: 2008-06-10

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") and Erik Larson ("The Devil in the White City"), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.In 20...

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Monsters of Men: Chaos Walking: Book Three

by Patrick Ness

Published: 2010-09-28

Hardcover: 608 pages

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In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world.As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acti...

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The Monsters of Templeton (UNABRIDGED) [AUDIOBOOK] [CD]

by Lauren Groff

Published: 2008

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The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass. So begins THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girls search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding...

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The Monsters of Templeton

by Lauren Groff

Published: 2008-02-05

Kindle Edition: 394 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- the debut novel by the acclaimed author of Fates and Furies."The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass."So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part cont...

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The Monsters of Templeton. Lauren Groff

by Lauren Groff

Published: 2009-06-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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Willie Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a media frenzy to the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors...

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The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless

by Ahmet Zappa

Published: 2006-07-25

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Beware! Only those who are McFearlessly brave may read from the pages of these monstrous memoirs. Crack open the “creature-skin” cover—if you dare—and enter the monsterminating world of 11-year-old Minerva McFearless, her brother Max, and their mysterious coyote friend, Mr. Devilst...

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A Monstrous Regiment of Women: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

by Laurie R. King

Published: 2007-10-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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Winner of the Nero Wolfe AwardIt is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling my...

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The Monstrumologist

by Rick Yancey

Published: 2010-07-20

Paperback: 464 pages

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These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me. So starts the diary of Will Henry, orp...

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Montana 1948: A Novel

by Larry Watson

Published: 2007-05-25

Paperback: 186 pages

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?From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them? ? So begins David Hayden’s story of what happened in Montana in 1948. The events of that cataclysmic...