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Per Loris tutto ha avuto inizio nel tempo bambino, quando era insieme al nonno, il bisogno eccessivo di leggere per scacciare le angosce scompariva e lui imparava cose. Ora Loris ha trent'anni, ha fatto della lettura il suo mestiere, vive in città e ha una fidanzata di soprannome Jo. Ma il lavoro in casa editrice è precario, l'ansia di non essere all'altezza dell'età adulta lo schiaccia. Loris scivola dentro sé stesso: c'è un male dentro di lui, un male capace di portarsi via ogni residuo di speranza.

When Shea Walker, a sunny, easygoing mom, is found dead in a bathtub with a stomach full of booze and pills, the shocking discovery shatters the complacency of her comfortable suburban community. Kat Burrows, Shea's longtime friend and former neighbor, is hit hardest. How could a woman she thought she knew so well come to such a sordid end? What could lead happy, well-adjusted, responsible Shea to accidentally overdose on alcohol and narcotics? Or, worse, drive her to suicide?

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the American male author whose time has now come again.

After losing her job as a TV psychic, Lee Barrett volunteers at the Tabitha Trumbull Academy of the Arts. When the school handyman turns up dead, Lee's clairvoyance begins bubbling. The Tabby is housed in long-vacant Trumbull's Department Store. As Lee and her students work on a documentary charting the store's history, they unravel a century of family secrets, deathbed whispers, and a mysterious labyrinth of tunnels hidden right below the streets of Salem. Even the witches in town are spooked.