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Don't breathe a word

a novel
2011
After a series of strange occurrences challenges his hard-headed realism, Sam, whose sister mysteriously disappeared fifteen years earlier, wonders if there is a world beyond our own when he is drawn into a vortex of evil and terror that reminds him of a promise he made long ago.

The dead path

a novel
2010
After the death of his wife, Nicholas Close is haunted by ghosts doomed to repeat their final violent moments, a situation that strains his grasp on sanity and sweeps him into a disturbing series of disappearances and murders involving an evil spirit.

The shack

a novel
2007
After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.

Sight

2007
Sixteen-year-old Dylan uses her psychic abilities to help police solve crimes against children, but keeps her extracurricular activities secret from her friends at school.

In plain sight

the startling truth behind the Elizabeth Smart investigation
2005
Journalists Tom Smart, uncle of Elizabeth Smart, and Lee Benson chronicle the investigation of Elizabeth's 2002 kidnapping, tracing the movements of her abductors and the mistakes made by police and others during her nine months of captivity, and discuss the positive and negative actions of the media throughout her and her family's ordeal.

Peanut and Pearl's picnic adventure

2007
Two friends set off for a picnic together, but by the time they are ready to eat, they have lost one another.

The boy who thought he was a teddy bear

a fairy tale
2002
Edward, a little boy, lives in the woods with the Three Teddy Bears, walking, talking, and moving just like a bear, but even though he loves acting like a teddy bear, he sometimes wonders what it would be like to be a little boy.

Hide and shriek

2007
With rivalries and cliques to blame for the drop in attendance at Camp Lakeview, Bunk 5A is on official warning but after a horror story about a creepy local who tortures campers, Chelsea's disappearance frightens everyone into joining forces.

Mike's house

1954
Because four-year-old Robert calls the public library "Mike's House," a policeman can't understand Robert's destination when he becomes lost.

When you meet a bear on Broadway

2009
When a little bear becomes separated from its mother in New York, a sympathetic child explains the proper steps that must be taken to reunite them.

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