""Ruby, the unpopular granddaughter of a hippie, feels betrayed when she discovers her beloved grandmother's dark secret. Ruby wakes up from a make-believe life, created by her grandmother, to the realization that, in the real world, she is disliked and placed in the category of the very peculiar, the object of ridicule. Her make believe life was necessary to cover up life in an old peeling house next to a garbage dump. An orphan, she was raised by her fading flower child grandmother. The crises emerges when she discovers her grandmother's dark secret, and finds it impossible to forgive her, as well as her mean classmates at school. How will she make her unbearable life bearable?""""""

Delores DeSio is an artist and a writer. In the Magic of the Night is her seventh book. Her first two books are picture books, Rescue of the Gem Children, a Christian Allegory, Distinctly the Duck, a book on self-esteem, Up A Tree with Mary McPhee is a Mystery for children. Annie's Journey Though the Golden Door is a middle grades book on phased immigration during the great immigration between the nineteenth and twentieth century, The Legend of Ruby O'Grady, or My Grandmother Was a Hippie, is a middle grades book. Aunt Nettie's Backyard is an adult book published 2013.

Delores DeSio is an artist and a writer. In the Magic of the Night is her seventh book. Her first two books are picture books, Rescue of the Gem Children, a Christian Allegory, Distinctly the Duck, a book on self-esteem, Up A Tree with Mary McPhee is a Mystery for children. Annie's Journey Though the Golden Door is a middle grades book on phased immigration during the great immigration between the nineteenth and twentieth century, The Legend of Ruby O'Grady, or My Grandmother Was a Hippie, is a middle grades book. Aunt Nettie's Backyard is an adult book published 2013. Delores is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women, and Who's Who in the World. She is also a retired teacher.

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"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien

Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.