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Straub Peter
Mrs. God: A Novel
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mystery, Shadowland, and The Talisman, the tale of an inspired literary sojourn that turns into something far more sinister Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years. D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, and Henry James were privileged to call themselves guests and Esswood Fellows. Even minor poets such as Isobel Standish found in Esswood a respite from the outer world and its refined atmosphere an inspiration for her work. There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood’s past, and the Seneschal children were often so pale and sickly, but don’t all English manor houses have a few ghost stories to call their own? When Professor William Standish receives the rare honor of an Esswood Fellowship, and the chance to study Isobel’s private manuscripts at close hand, he is thrilled beyond his wildest ambitions. But something seems slightly off at Esswood House, a feeling Standish cannot quite put his finger on. He hears faint laughter in the halls, the pitter-pattering of small feet in the night; strange faces appear in the windows of the library, and there are those giant dollhouses in the basement . . . Never before published as a separate volume, Mrs. God is a very different kind of ghost story from one of America’s most celebrated authors.
The Talisman
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On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America–and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother’s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest
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A Dark Matter
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On a Midwestern campus in the 1960s, a charismatic guru and his young acolytes perform a secret ritual in a local meadow. What happens is a mystery—all that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Forty years later, one man seeks to learn about that horrifying night, and to do so he’ll have to force those involved to examine the unspeakable events that have haunted them ever since. Unfolding through their individual stories, A Dark Matter is an electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel that proves Peter Straub to be the master of modern horror.
Ghost Story
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In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder. Peter Straub's classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" (The Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: A Novel
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A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son– fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill–vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.
Mystery (Blue Rose Trilogy)
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MYSTERY. Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.
Straub Peter News
Early Look at Talisman Comic Characters - Dread Central
Dread Central, CA - May 23, 5953
Early Look at Talisman Comic CharactersWe're a little late with this update on the graphic novel version of Stephen King/Peter Straub's The Talisman, but in case you missed it also, within the last month King's official site provided a first look at three major characters from the story.
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White House Resources - Washington Post Blogs
Washington Post Blogs, DC - May 29, 2009
White House ResourcesNoelle Straub and Eric Bontrager write for Greenwire: "No logging or road project on tens of millions of forested acres will proceed without personal approval by the Agriculture Department's secretary for at least a year while the Obama administration
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Beer: Eternally wed at the Eternal Tap - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - May 14, 2009
Beer: Eternally wed at the Eternal TapMr. Berarducci, who says many people were sipping Straub when he got there, describes his friend and brewery president Dan Straub escorting his bride through an archway made of cases of Peter Straub's Special Dark to her father, who gave her away.
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VCM results: Mixed open relay - BurlingtonFreePress.com
BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - May 25, 2009
VCM results: Mixed open relayFletcher Allen, Chester, Vt. (Mark Curran, Oliver Curran, James Curran, Spencer Curran, Margie Straub), 3:36:12; 65. Will Run for Beer and Pizza, Burlington, Vt. (Emma Child, Benjamin Clayman, Emily Memahan, Jeremy Engel, Kathy Berg), 3:36:40; 66.
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Friday's Ann Arbor-area high school roundup - MLive.com
MLive.com, MI - May 23, 8615
Friday's Ann Arbor-area high school roundupWinning pitcher Aaron Straub contributed two hits and two RBIs. Brighton 7-13, Waterford Mott 0-1 - Tom Tullar pitched a three-hitter in the first game and Steve Austin pitched a two-hitter in the second for the Bulldogs (25-1, 12-1 KLAA Lakes
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