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Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year... Unless you're a bachelor. Holden Parks shows up to Christmas with KFC and cheap communist gifts, after being dismissed by his family, that same night his girlfriend gives him the pink slip too. A journey of plowing snow, tracking deer, obscene amounts of gingerbread houses, and a heavily guarded front yard Christmas tree takes Holden on a journey to find himself and the meaning of Christmas.

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Riley lives in TropeTown, where everyone plays stock roles in novels. Riley, a Manic Pixie Dream Boy, is sent to group therapy after going off-script. Riley knows that breaking the rules again could get him terminated, yet he feels there must be more to life than recycling the same clichés for readers' entertainment. Then he meets Zelda, a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Geek Chic subtype), and falls head over heels in love. Zelda's in therapy too, along...

Scared to death Scared to look They shook… and that might get them killed! The nation he once fought for, has fallen. The woman he once loved, is gone. The dead have risen and all Robert Briggs has left is a few bullets and a broken family to protect. After losing his wife on day one of the outbreak, Robert and his young son, Jordan, have battled their way through the war zone that is Georgia to unite with his brother and elderly mother in Savannah....

Go on a series of murderous adventures where you decide the story and get to meet and kill Trixy's friends! The more you slaughter, the more points you get! NOT FOR KIDS!Trixy the Hamster is crashed out after a night of heavy partying. His doorbell rings. Who can that be? He holsters up, goes to his door and spots a mysterious egg on his doorstep. Ashes fall from his cigar. What does he do? Find its mother? Hatch the egg? Shoot it with an AK-47? You...

Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.

Amber Fang enjoys life's simple pleasures. A perfect evening for her includes a good book, a glass of wine and, of course, a great meal, preferably straight from the jugular. Raised to eat ethically, Amber dines only on delicious cold-blooded killers. But confirming that her chosen victims deserve to die takes time. And patience. So it's a good thing Amber is studying to be a librarian. Her extraordinary research skills help her hunt down her prey,...

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

"During a party a tsunami hits the coast of California, and Denver and a handful of others escape death and are swept out to sea. Of course, one of her fellow castaways is none other than her ex-BFF, Abigail, who can barely stand the sight of her. Trapped on a small boat with the most popular kids in school and waiting to be rescued, Denver wonders what might kill her first--dehydration, sunstroke, or the girl she used to think of as a sister?" --...