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Harpercollins. 05/01/1996. This lyrical and deeply imagined novel is set on the coast of what seems to be England near the end of the Stone Age in a prosperous community of stoneworkers. A one-armed boy who has no function in the society ventures outside their enclave and, returning with fantastic tales of the outside world, becomes the community bard. When he brings back a strange, disruptive woman, it gradually becomes clear that the end of this complacent, enclosed, and doomed band of craftspeople is about to come--that the Bronze Age is dawning--and it is up to the one-armed bard to find a new way for them to live. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1995. Reprint. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2003. Reprint. 291 pgs. It's the 1950s on the Gulf Coast in Louisiana, and the Petitjean and Bruneau families are involved in a cycle of violence that goes back for generations and that young Theresa Petitjean wants to end, no matter what the cost. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2003. Reprint. John Cheever's sequel to "The Wapshot Chronicle" takes place in a small town in Massachusetts. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/2004. Large Print. In her bestselling books, Anne Rivers Siddons can be counted on for strong narratives, old-fashioned values, and vividly described settings. ISLANDS, her 15th novel, is no exception. The focus here is a wealthy clique in Charleston, South Carolina--Siddons's usual milieu--and a woman named Anny Butler who marries into it. When Lewis Aiken, a surgeon, falls in love with Anny, who runs a philanthropic agency, he instantly renounces his womanizing past, and Anny finds in her idyllic marriage a secure haven and a supportive group of friends for the first time in her life. Tragedy intervenes, age encroaches, difficulties abound, but the group coheres, and Anny draws strength from the continuity and the tradition with which they are blessed. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2000. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/2001. 269 pgs. Hannah Gray, an elderly widow, remembers her first love; her story alternates with that of an ancestor, Claris Osgood, who tells the story of her miserable marriage to a narrow-minded bigot. The two stories intertwine when Hannah encounters a ghost and discovers some unsettling family truths. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/1994. Reissue. In the Central American town of La Boca, Lem Green, a rootless hotel manager, is hiding from something in his past. He is involved with two very different women--Pilar, a revolutionary on the run, and the young and brilliant Lourdes. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1995. Reissue. Trevor's bleakly funny novel, set in a British seaside town, is the story of Tim Gedge, a 12-year-old boy whose primary goal is discovering the secrets of his neighbors and exposing their hypocrisy. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/1992. Reprint. Originally published at $10.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1996. 121 pgs. In this brutally honest novel of first love, Philippe and Vinca are teenagers in a seaside village in Brittany who fall deeply in love. Their happiness is clouded, however, when Mme. Delleray seduces Philippe and provides him with his first experience of real physical passion. Colette's novel, which has an intriguingly ambiguous ending, is an ardent exploration of both love and power. Published in 1923, THE RIPENING SEED was her first work of fiction after the early Claudine novels and CHERI. Originally published at $11.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1994. Reprint. Originally published at $11.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 07/01/1999. 19 pgs. On the coast of Maine during the summer of 1896, Cordelia Underwood finds a deed to a piece of land in her deceased uncle's sea chest. The discovery sends Cordelia--along with the wise, jolly Tobias Walton and his cohorts in the Moosepath League--on a series of crazy, suspense-filled adventures. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1979. Although Maupassant's own introduction to his novel proclaims a general distaste for the so-called psychological novel, "Pierre and Jean" (1888) emerged as a very intimate and internal study of jealousy, suspicion, and love within families. Pierre, a doctor, and Jean, a lawyer, are the sons of a retired jeweler who live with his wife in Le Havre. Pierre is jealous of his brother's relationship with Madame Rosémilly, and he becomes suspicious about his mother's fidelity when his brother inherits the fortune of an old family friend. These emotions conflict with an abiding respect for his mother and genuine affection for Jean, so Pierre turns inward and escapes by accepting a job as a doctor on a transatlantic liner. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 02/01/2000. In medieval Japan, a young boy in a fishing village learns about evil when a ship bearing a deadly cargo is wrecked just off the shore. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr on Demand. 03/01/1998. 330 pgs. A collection of maritime mystery stories featuring entires by masters Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and John Mortimer, among others. Originally published at $35.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/1995. 316 pgs. David Holt is reminded of his bewildering and horrifying experiences during World War II when his son is commissioned to write an article on Caleb Carne. Carne's stirring broadcasts during the war touched the heart of Britain and David, who was stationed in Crane's Cornish village, fell in love with the whole Carne family. When David returns to the village in honor of Carne's 95th birthday, he yearns to discover the truth about his last stormy night on the Cornwall cliffs so many years ago. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1996. 357 pgs. Kate Sherridan recognizes the bad state of her marriage and the deteriorating condition of her family's cohesiveness. She decides that a visit to her childhood vacation spot in Cornwall might help everyone reconnect. While there she learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that her children are falling in with the wrong crowd. Meanwhile, an old murder mystery resurfaces. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1997. 259 pgs. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1998. Reprint. 664 pgs. A best-seller in England, this novel is about a young sailor named Hal Courtenay, who has grown up on the coast of Africa, and whose coming of age is fraught with piracy, perilous sea voyages, wild escapes from danger, and buried treasure. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1997. 244 pgs. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1999. 260 pgs. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1999. 247 pgs. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2001. 285 pgs. Originally published at $6.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/1996. Reprint. After the tragic end of an arranged marriage to a man she didn't love, young widow Virginia Keile retreats to a seaside cottage in Cornwall with her two children, where she hopes to gather the strength and love needed to make a new life for herself and her family. Originally published at $7.99 You save 84% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/2000. 375 pgs. The Connelly family is in trouble. Ruth is a lawyer in a high-powered job. Her husband Paul, a professor, is beginning to drink too much. Both have been unfaithful. Their daughter, Josie, is going through a hostile and difficult adolescence. Then Josie drowns in a boating accident, and the family falls apart even further. But when their son (and only surviving child) contracts cancer, Ruth and Paul are drawn back together--only to be tested one more time by another crisis. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/2001. 259 pgs. Elaine Sinclair, pregnant and in flight from her husband, shows up at the primitive Maine cabin of a reclusive man named Peter. Seeking only to be alone after the horrible death by fire of his wife and children, Peter finds himself nevertheless strangely drawn to Elaine, who refuses to leave and who rekindles in Peter an interest in living. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/2001. 277 pgs. Series heroine Sydney Sloane and her lover and investigative partner, Leslie, investigate the murder of Sydney's niece's husband's parents. The husband, Gavin, is the chief suspect, and Sydney's niece is distraught. It's up to Sydney to save the day, which she does, against a colorful south-of-France backdrop. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/2000. Illustrated. 360 pgs. Bram Stoker, author of DRACULA, is the hero of this novel, which is set during the summer of 1880. As re-imagined by Roberts, Stoker is a confused young man--married, unhappy, working in London as a theater manager, and not yet a novelist. In Whitby for a vacation by the sea, he enters into a relationship with a young woman who opens his eyes to many things, including the possibilities of literature. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1996. At the age of 22, Flora Waring is shocked to find that she has an identical twin, and quickly falls into a game of secrets, love, and betrayal. Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 03/01/2002. Psychic sleuth Nuala McGrail retreats to her family home in the remote West of Ireland for some rest and relaxation. She soon finds herself sucked back into crime-solving, though. While exploring a rocky seaside area, Nuala receives psychic intimations of a horrible massacre that took place on the site more than a century before. As she begins to investigate the situation, she realizes that she's become the target of a contemporary killer. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/1994. Reprint. On the coast of Cornwall, a woman known as Princess Holly reveals the terrible secret in her past. Originally published at $4.99 You save 62% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 02/01/2003. Reprint. "Lucky" Lunt (who is supremely UN-lucky) is a Maine lobsterman with a heart condition, a difficult wife, and an unsavory skinhead son. As his life gets harder to cope with, he finds himself increasingly drawn to a member of his crew, Ronette, and when the two become romantically involved things get better--but then dramatically worse, as Ronette gets pregnant, Lucky's wife takes off, and disaster strikes his fishing business. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 05/01/1998. 467 pgs. Set in Victorian England, Fowles' novel revolves around three characters: Ernestina (the daughter of a wealthy industrialist), Charles (a prosperous amateur scientist), and Sarah. Although engaged to marry Ernestina, Charles becomes obsessed with Sarah, whose mysterious past and scandalous reputation as "the French Lieutenant's woman" make her a social outcast. Originally published at $14.99 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 01/01/2001. 1291 pgs. In the summer of 1899, 15-year-old Olympia Biddeford visits the New Hampshire coast with her wealthy Boston family. Spirited and bright, she soon befriends her father's colleague, Dr. John Haskell, a talented writer, respected physician, and enthusiastic philanthropist. Olympia's summer of awakenings--both intellectual and sexual--turns bleak when her love affair with the good doctor, who is a married father of four and 26 years Olympia's senior, is uncovered. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Replica Books. 07/01/2001. 266 pgs. Book editor Katie Wilkinson finds bittersweet revelations in her ex-lover's wife's diary, in this tearjerker that departs from Patterson's usual thrills-and-chills formula. Originally published at $28.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/1990. Reprint. An amnesia victim tries to piece his life back together as he struggles to identify the people who surround him, and at the same time to devise some form of self-identification that will tell him who he is. Originally published at $4.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 06/01/2002. Reprint. Young Julian is indirectly responsible for a jail break at Wandsworth Prison that prevents his father (who is Governor of the prison) from joining the rest of the family on holiday. The events of that journey to the Cornwall coast resonate in Julian's life for many years afterward. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/2001. 226 pgs. Following her divorce, native Manhattanite and freelance journalist Lily Davis packs up all her belongings--including her troubled teenage son, Sam--and moves to Sakonnet Bay, Long Island. The small seaside town does wonders for Lily's peace of mind for a few weeks. Before long, however, Lily's old neuroses kick into gear. The gossip mill of small town life has rendered her completely paranoid. To make things worse, Lily suspects that the naked woman she and police sergeant Tom McKee discovered in an empty house was murdered. As for Sam, Lily finds that whatever motivated him to sneak out to nightclubs and hide a knife in his dresser in the big city is inspiring him once again. He's got a weird haircut and has taken up with a Klingon-speaking girlfriend. Will Lily ever adjust to her new life in this tiny hamlet, or will she forever see this quaint town through her cynical, big city eyes? Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 11/01/1999. 251 pgs. This installment in the Donovan Legacy series features the beautiful, lonely schoolteacher Rowan Murray. Yearning for peace--and a little romance--dreamy Rowan treats herself to a vacation at a friend's cabin on the Oregon coast. Once there, she meets her enchanting neighbor, handsome brooder Liam Donovan, and his golden-eyed pet wolf. Liam and the wolf are literally the stuff of dreams as Rowan begins to have spicy fantasies about her mysterious neighbor. Will Rowan finally act on her desires and turn these dreams into a reality? Originally published at $4.25 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 03/01/1999. Originally published at $4.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 04/01/2006. 249 pgs. In an attempt to get back to the basics of life, publishing executive Cathy Bissette abandons her New York career for the quiet haven of a North Carolina coastal town. But soon her world is sent topsy-turvy by a seaman named Jared Parsons. Originally published at $16.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/1997. A historical novel about an American vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830s. While the ship waits to return to sea, the isolated community in which it has landed is profoundly affected by the presence of its crew, including Otto, the ship's cook--who is also a slave, and who is freed by an intrusive abolitionist. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 05/01/1999. A failed writer named Terry, the victim of a sleep disorder, turns up at a sleep clinic run by Gregory, whom he knew in college. Past and present intertwine as Sarah, one of Gregory's old girlfriends, surfaces, as does another student from the group, Robert, with whom Sarah is still in love. The plot is made more complex by the fact that Gregory's real aim in running the clinic is to teach humans to do without sleep entirely, an obsession that leads him to experiment on his patients. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $14.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 02/01/2002. Reprint. After the death of his mother, a failed, aging actor named Alexander Cleave returns to the seaside town where he grew up and tries to come to terms with the disappointments of his life and with the people in it, including his estranged wife and his mentally disturbed daughter. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 06/01/2002. 257 pgs. Artie Kinzie wants to bring success--in the form of tourism--to a quiet Rhode Island town called Lying Spit. Thanks to an advertising/PR blitz, in record time Lying Spit is a haven for gays who are jaded by Provincetown and Fire Island, and the reaction of the locals is mixed. Originally published at $19.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/1998. A young woman flees the backwoods of Brazil and finds herself in a bustling seaside port where Nacib, a café owner, hires her as a cook. Gabriela is not only a great chef but, once she is cleaned up, a beauty who inflames the passions of the town and changes it forever. Originally published at $7.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1998. When an airplane crashes in the National Park at Cumberland Island Seashore and kills the pilot and District Ranger Todd Belfore, Ranger Anna Pigeon suspects that the crash was not accidental. Can Anna piece together the clues and figure out who is behind the plot? Are more lives are in danger at Cumberland? Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/1998. Fisherman and ex-cop J.W. Jackson tries to protect the president's daughter from a conspiracy. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/2000. Reprint. 298 pgs. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2000. 372 pgs. The first installment in this seafaring series features a former seaman (and reformed pirate) named Thomas Marlowe, his wife Elizabeth (who was once a prostitute in London), and their friend, the intellectual Francis Bickerstaff. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 09/01/1993. 352 pgs. For diver, fisherman and sometimes private-eye Aristotle "Soc" Socrates, not even pushy tourists can spoil summer at Cape Cod's Quanset Beach. But everything changes when a swimmer is attacked and killed by an unknown aquatic predator, his body disfigured in a way no one has ever seen before. When more similarly mutilated bodies wash ashore sending the town into a state of panic, Socrates races to solve the mystery. Originally published at $17.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 04/01/1998. Fremont Jones follows her lover to Carmel-by-the-Sea, only to be turned away in scorn. So Fremont takes a job tending the lighthouse, and before long a body washes up on shore--and Fremont is back in sleuth mode. Originally published at $6.50 You save 70% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 11/01/1995. Illustrated. 313 pgs. O'Brian's first novel about the sea, THE GOLDEN OCEAN, took inspiration from Commodore Anson's circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In THE UNKNOWN SHORE, O'Brian returns to this rich source. One of the ships was parted from the squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn, struggled alone up the coast of Chile and soon smashed on the rocks. A surplus of rum, dwindling stores of food, and a hated captain soon drove the men to drunkenness and mutiny. After many months of extreme hardship, the survivors reached safety in Valparaiso. This is the background for the saga of midshipman Jack Byron and surgeon's mate Tobias Barrow. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 03/01/1986. Originally published at $1.98 You save 25% off the cover price!

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Replica Books. 11/01/1996. Reprint. The residents of a small coastal town in Florida populate this novel in which a newlywed couple's troubles make up most of the action. When Faye, the wife, is kidnapped and raped, her husband Vic evades his wife's trauma by moving out and seeing other women. Faye undergoes further trauma when a car accident puts her into a coma. She emerges from unconsciousness with brain damage and memory loss, but with the determination to attain a new independence and get on with her life. Originally published at $19.99 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 12/01/1991. Reissue. Tom Wingo, a middle-aged high school football coach and English teacher, is summoned from his home in Charleston, South Carolina to New York City to attend to his twin sister Savannah, who has remained comatose since attempting suicide. Savannah's psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein, wants Tom to fill in many of the details in Savannah's upbringing. As Tom tells the Wingo story to Susan, he begins to uncover long-repressed memories, revealing some terrible family secrets. Gradually, the reasons why Savannah has tried to kill herself become evident. Originally published at $7.99 You save 81% off the cover price!

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