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Boarding the RMS Titanic in the spring of 1912-the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe, the three Fortune sisters contemplate the futures that await them, grappling with the choices before them, until, on an infamous night, fate intervenes, forever altering their lives.
2) Ghost: #4
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It is getting harder to hide the monsters in "Motel Mattigan" from their dad. The Mattigan kids are eager to collect a new creature, but sorting out the truth will force them to look inside themselves.
3) Bigfoot: #1
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The Mattigan kids don't believe in things that go bump in the night, but when their long-lost Grandpa Joe shows up with his Mysterious Monsters journal, the siblings find themselves drawn into a search for Bigfoot.
5) Werewolf: #5
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The Mattigan kids convince their dad to go on a mission to find a werewolf, and they are determined to help the monsters hiding in their basement uncover the truth about their pasts.
6) Vampire: #3
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While their dad searches for evidence to prove the spooky Vampire House's blood-sucker is fake, the Mattigan kids set out on a search of their own, even if their clever plan could be a recipe for disaster.
7) Alien: #2
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The Mattigan kids are off to Las Vegas with their dad who plans to prove there are no aliens on the loose there, but the kids want to find out once and for all what's hidden in the notorious Area 51.
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The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.
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From the author of the acclaimed The Florios of Sicily, a magnificent novel that explores the origins of one of Italy's most powerful and notorious families -- men and women whose ruthless ambition and caprice would chart the course of modern Italian history. Known as the Lions of Sicily, the Florios have officially arrived. Once rich only in ambition, the family has amassed a fortune that includes palaces, factories, ships, silks, and jewels. The...
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In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
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In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve...