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When Clay-Boy’s father fails to return home on Christmas Eve, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of him, leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy’s search for his father is told with warmth and intensity.

A motorist's automobile won't let him forget his guilt over killing a young cyclist and fleeing from the scene.

High up on a mountain, young Clay-Boy Spencer joins his father and eight uncles to hunt the mythical white deer. What he finds on the mountainside changes his life - and marks him for a special destiny. Years later, Clay-Boy is the first in his family to get the chance to go to college; but success as an adult is much more complicated and bittersweet than the legendary success of Clay-Boy’s childhood quest.

Young New York married couple Bob and Millie Frazier leave a party after drinking too much. They wake up in Centerville, a small town where no one lives, houses are empty, trees are props, food is plastic, and the only train comes right back to Centerville.

An advance party of an alien invasion force arrives in a quiet residential neighborhood disguised as leather-jacketed motorcycle youths.

Movie star Bunny Blake makes an unexpected visit to her hometown after receiving a strange ring that predicts the future.

Earl Hamner and Don Sipes have penned this charming story of a singing goose and her adventures in and around Toulouse, France along with a whole host of other animal friends. This is a wonderful book not just for children, but for adults who are young at heart.

A mountain girl named Jess-Belle wins back the love of her fickle boyfriend with the help of a witch, who exacts a very high price for her love potion.