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A mirror that feeds on human souls wreaks destruction on those around it in Mirror Image, the new novel from internationally bestselling author Michael Scott and Melanie Ruth Rose. In an auction house in London, there is a mirror no one will buy. Standing seven feet tall and reaching four feet across, its size makes it unusual. Its horrific powers make it extraordinary. For centuries, the mirror has fed off of the lives of humans, giving them agonizing deaths and sucking their souls into its hellish world. When Jonathan Frazer, the wealthy owner of a furniture and antiques shop in Los Angeles, buys the mirror at an auction, he believes he is getting the bargain of a lifetime. With its age and size, it is easily worth eight times what he paid for it. At this point, the mirror has sat dormant for years. But within days of Jonathan's purchase, the deaths begin again. One employee is crushed when the mirror falls on top of him. A few days later, the corpse of another ...

BEATING HEART This house is mine and I am its beating heart. She is a ghost: a figure glimpsed from the corner of your eye, a momentary chill, and a memory of secret kisses and hidden passion. He is 17 years old: Evan Calhoun, warm and alive, and ever since moving to this big abandoned house, he has dreamt of her. Ghost and boy fascinate each other–until her memories and his desire collide in a moment that changes them both. Combining verse fragments with chiseled prose, A. M. Jenkins captures the compelling voice of a long–dead ghost and the perspective of a modern teen, twining mystery and romance in this evocative, sensual, and unrelentingly engrossing novel. ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Evan Calhoun's parents have recently split up. Seventeen year old Evan, his mom, and little sister, all move into this previously long-abandoned mansion his mother is gung-ho about renovating as she pursues a writing career. Also inhabiting the house is the ghost of Cora Royce, who...

BEFORE LONG Moving to a new home? Contentment is a virtue, but home buying is  sheer romance. Poking fun at a young couple searching for a place to call home, BEFORE LONG teases a home buyer's angst with some broker-realtor humor in this illustrated comedy. Fictional Ernest and Esme allow you to accompany them through their buyers' remorse. This coffee table gift book depicts a buyer's attempt to land the ideal house in the perfect community without tackling significant issues. ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Fictional couple Ernest and Esme are first-time home buyers on the hunt for their dream residence. They search high and low, testing out homes in both urban and rural settings, finding little issues with each spot that leads them to want to move yet again each time. Through it all, readers are asked to go along with them as they navigate through the highs and lows, the numerous and varied joys and pitfalls of the house hunting experience.  Format-wise, though th...

THE BEGUILED Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled? ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Union Army Corporal John Patrick McBurney, 20, is found wounded / near dead in the Virginia woods by thirteen year old Amelia Dabney while she's out mushroom hunting. Amelia decides to take John back to her nearby boarding school, the Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Regarding the history of the school, the story goes that Farnsworth E...