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Even adults need fairy tales.
The Stairs in the Woods takes you through a journey into a magical fantasy world while also exploring a unique coming of age story.
After spending most of her life a continent away, Kaitlynn Jenson has come home to Connecticut to tend to her ailing father. But the discovery of a strange painting above the mantle of her childhood home leads her on an adventure to a magical world called Somalie, where mythical creatures...
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Uncle Wiggily in the Woods is a children's book written by Howard Roger Garis and first published in 1921. It is part of a series of stories featuring Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit who wears clothes and uses a cane to help him walk. In this book, Uncle Wiggily goes on a series of adventures in the woods with his animal friends, including Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat, and Sammie Littletail, the rabbit. They encounter various obstacles and challenges,...
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
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2015.
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A retelling of the traditional Russian folk tale in which a little mouse makes a perfect home in the woods. One by one other animals are welcomed to share the home until the little house is full. All the animals live happily together until the day a bear wants to squeeze in too.
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In September 2013, 72-year-old Gene Penaflor was hunting for deer in California's Mendocino National Forest when he fell onto rocky terrain and was knocked unconscious. When he awoke, the hunter was disoriented and lost. Days went by but rescuers did not come. To survive, Gene ate squirrels, frogs, and lizards. He kept himself warm in the subfreezing temperatures by building small fires and covering himself with leaves and grass. Would help arrive...
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A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail--to a dangerous psychopath whose powers of persuasion seem to have no end. Only by teaming up with sheriff's detective Kendall Stark can Birdy hope to even the odds in a deadly game. It's a fateful decision the killer wants them to make. And it's the only way Birdy...
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When Allie moves to a quaint old cottage with her husband, it's their dream home. Nestled in the village of Pluckley, it seems a perfect haven in which to raise their two children. But, Pluckley has a reputation. It's known as England's most haunted village. And, not long after the birth of their new son, Allie begins to notice strange things...
What's the flash of white she sees moving quickly through the woods to the back of their house? And, what's...
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Prepare to be hooked by the gripping new psychological thriller by bestselling author J.A.Baker!
I am safe here, in my cottage in the woods where no one knows me or my real name. All is peaceful and calm and the real world can't hurt me – because I know how cruel it can be.
But then I see her again. I see her pale, white face. Watching me. Taunting me. And then the notes begin to appear.
I know who you really are… I know what you did…
All...
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A dark secret. A deadly obsession. No place to hide.
Max Hunter, my boyfriend, booked the beautiful boat house on the Norfolk Broads as a surprise autumn break
A week away to heal after a fraught few months following my father's death. A chance to put the lies and secrets behind us and to start afresh. But in the silence it feels like someone is out there. Watching, waiting and taunting me.
When strange things begin to happen, I know this isn't...
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With more developed vocabulary and language patterns and full-spread illustration-enhanced photographs, transitional readers learn about the white-tailed deer's forest habitat. Children who are using strategies to figure out unknown words build confidence as they learn more advanced word patterns and uncover information on their own. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Magic Readers is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division...
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Jack Haldean's weekend entertainment at the country estate of Birchen Bower is cut short by the discovery of a body, mauled to death as if by a wild animal. Birchen Bower has a long and colourful history, and is rumoured to be haunted. Refusing to believe the wild tales of man-eating beasts prowling the grounds, Jack sets out to uncover the truth.
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Severn House
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2018.
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"Ever since her best friend Molly was murdered fifteen years before, Blair Butler has returned to her small hometown in the Pocono mountains as seldom as possible. Now she has been summoned home to see her terminally ill sister one last time--only for Celeste to make a shocking deathbed confession. Is it really true that the wrong man has spent fifteen years in jail for a crime he didn't commit? Having promised her dying sister that she would do her...
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Read along with Disney! Surf-abunga! When Captain Hook steals Jake's surfboard, Jake and the crew rush to retrieve the board before it goes over Rainbow Falls and becomes a pile of splintered wood. In this Level 1 Reader with word for word narration, picture reading, word repetition and short, simple sentences, children will be able to enjoy this Jake reader on their own!
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Beth Phillips returns to Platteville, Nebraska in order to begin a new life and to hide from her abusive ex-husband. The secluded cabin offers a chance to stay hidden and to draw closer to God, but Beth quickly discovers she is not alone in the woods. She befriends a curious, displaced wolf, but instead of fearing the animal Beth finds comfort in his company. When field biologist, Aiden Holt, follows up on reported wolf sightings, he finds the animal...
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A surprise snowstorm. A grumpy recluse. One very hot night.
When Penny Holiday gets stranded during a snowstorm, she has to seek refuge with Kent Matheson, a childhood friend who lives like a hermit and has never forgiven her family. Kent is everything she shouldn't want, but feelings are awakened in his cabin in the woods that don't disappear when the snow finally melts.
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