![]() ![]() However, due to a recent crisis that had taken the kingdoms by storm, tonight's attendance was expected to be much higher than usual. The gatherings were usually uneventful and low in attendance. ![]() ![]() Smoke rose from the tavern's single chimney, filling the air with a foul odor and signaling to the witches traveling to the creek that the meeting was about to begin. The midnight gatherings were held at the Witches' Brew, an old tavern made entirely of twigs and mulch that sat in the middle of the creek like a giant beaver dam. When corpses were found, the witches picked them apart like vultures, taking home what they needed in jars to stock their potion supplies. The dead bodies in the coffins were never identified, nor was who or what had sent them-not that any time was given for an investigation. And every time the rerouting occurred, coffins floated in from an unknown location. Every so often, without any warning or explanation, the creek redirected itself to flow uphill into the forest. The meetings were strictly for witches only, and they enjoyed making gruesome examples out of those who disturbed them.ĭead Man's Creek was shrouded in mystery, making it an ideal place for the witches to assemble. At midnight of every full moon, witches from the forests and neighboring kingdoms gathered at the creek. T he creatures of the Dwarf Forests knew to avoid Dead Man's Creek tonight if they valued their lives. ![]()
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The best we could do pages5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) FinalistĪBA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selectionīarnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 SelectionĪn intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. ![]() The diamond eye by kate quinn5/11/2023 ![]() When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. ![]() Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. ![]() In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. 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