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Shelby Richmond was a popular, selfabsorbed teenager. But the aftermath
of a tragic car accident that has her
best friend in an endless coma has her
suffering a
profound
sense of
worthlessness
because she
was the driver.
After pushing
everyone
away and
spending
Alice Hoffman
time in a
psychiatric facility for cutting her
wrists, Shelby has resigned to her
parents’ basement where she has
shaved her head as penance for her
sins. But then she starts getting these
postcards. Little drawings and cryptic
messages like “Do something” or
“Save something” or “Trust someone.”
These postcards always seem to come
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Something Bad Is About To
Happen In The Remote Woods
Of Northern Minnesota!
AVAILABLE JANUARY 3
HOLIDAYEDITION2016
A Character You’ll
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Remember Long After The
Final Page Is Turned!
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at just the right moment. FAITHFUL is History of Wolves is a beautifully
a beautifully written story with a
written coming-of-age story
sense of immediacy, thrusting the
that will grip readers on many
reader deep into life and
"FAITHFUL is a beautifully written story
mind of a young woman
with a sense of immediacy, thrusting
for whom everything
seems false and useless.
the reader deep into life and mind of
Who is her secret “angel.”
a young woman for whom everything
Is she going to be okay?
seems false and useless."
Will she ever regain her
sense of self? Shelby is a
levels and never let go. Emily
believable and vulnerable character Fridlund’s descriptive prose
that you will think about long after
carries us into the wooded
the last page has been turned.
reaches of northern Minnesota
to experience first-hand the
isolation and loneliness, not
only of this remote area but
also of fifteen-year-old Linda
who lives there with her aging
hippie parents. Born into a nowdefunct commune and raised in a
cabin in the woods, Linda is an
outsider and a loner in her school.
When a married couple with a small
boy moves into a summer home
across the lake, she befriends the
young wife and agrees to babysit
their four-year-old. But something’s
not right, and Linda, in her naïveté,
doesn’t know
how to
respond.
Something
bad is about
to happen,
and the
author
skillfully takes
us there as we
Emily Fridlund
develop an
attachment
for Linda and those around her.
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