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The Killer's Handbook
This delightfully warped mystery is sure to thrill fans of Dexter. A book entitled The Killer’s Handbook should be gruesome, right? It is indeed, but it’s also delightful in a very warped way. Robert P. Maroney’s mystery novel is...
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I Must Survive!
This engaging story, with two skillfully spun parallel tales, begs to be read in one sitting. In his absorbing debut novel, Harry Simpson pairs the urgency of a soldier’s 1966 tour of duty in Vietnam with a nostalgic look at a...
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Distorted Mind
Fortnam captures his radical separation from reality by sharing his confused thought process. In this brief but brave memoir, Michael Fortnam strives to share what serious mental illness feels like from inside the patient’s head....
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The House on Dead Boy Lane
Eerie monsters and psychological demons creep from the shadows of Johnson’s vivid occult mystery. Haunted houses are a staple of horror novels, but few are quite as patently evil as the seemingly abandoned home at the heart of Carter...
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Kickers
Spot-on details shed light on a seldom discussed episode in American foreign policy. If high school history teachers assigned stories like Patrick Lee’s "Kickers", students would learn a lot more about the conflicts that have shaped...
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How mothers with postnatal depression create narcissism and psychopaths
Arnold lays out his evidence that seeds of a mass murderer are planted from mom’s postnatal depression. It’s a question equally likely to spark debate in college classrooms or around the workplace watercooler: how did Hitler become...
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Where the Wildflowers Grow
Gossip among women characters evokes a time and place where accusations and confrontations must be cloaked in scrupulously polite conversations. Recalling the scandalous small-town secrets of the classic northern novel Peyton Place, Vera...
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How to Write a Killer ACT Essay
Clements has done students a great favor by distilling the necessary knowledge into an easy-to-read, easy-to-use workbook. It has become a rite of passage for high school students: study, practice, and take the SAT and ACT, tests that...