{"title":"Alexandra Sirowy","description":"Alexandra Sirowy is the author of The Creeping and The Telling. She was born and raised in Northern California, where she attended a women's college as an undergraduate and received her MA at the University of San Francisco. She is a voracious reader, the oldest of three children, an avid traveler, a record-holding high school long jumper, a gourmet cook, a feminist, and forever grateful to her parents for reading to her as a child. Alexandra lives in Northern California with her husband.","products":[{"product_id":"the-telling-paperback","title":"The Telling - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \"haunting...addictive\" (Publishers Weekly) novel about a teen who must delve into her past if she wants to live long enough to have a future when murders eerily similar to the dark stories her brother used to tell start happening in her hometown--now with updated text and a brand-new look!You swore on summer. Ben was Lana's world. He was her big brother, her best friend, her summer. And then he was murdered in a grisly carjacking, and her world ended. Now, six months after Ben's death, Lana is trying to reinvent herself. She's found her way into the inner circle of popular kids, and the Lana she is now--bold, daring, brash, adventurous--barely resembles the shy, unpopular Lana she used to be. And then a body turns up. At first, everyone thinks it's just a horrible accident. But when more corpses are discovered, Lana realizes the details of the murders eerily match the dark fairy tales Ben used to tell her--stories that only she and Ben knew. Is Ben seeking vengeance from the grave? Or has a darker phantom from their past come to haunt Lana's present?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548899283167,"sku":"9781665973854","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5sQJfaDhLb9781665973854.webp?v=1783714051"},{"product_id":"the-creeping-paperback","title":"The Creeping - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRomance, friendship, and bone-chilling fear fill the pages of this \"haunting modern-day folktale\" (April Genevieve Tucholke, author of \u003ci\u003eBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea\u003c\/i\u003e) about a teen whose repressed memories begin to surface when a body is discovered in her small town--now with updated text and a brand-new look!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwelve years ago, Stella and Jeanie vanished while picking strawberries. Stella returned minutes later with no memory of what happened. Jeanie was never seen or heard from again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow Stella is seventeen and ready for everyone to move on already. Yes, she's the lucky survivor of her town's ugly legacy, but she's looking forward, not back. This coming summer, Stella has a great best friend, a hookup with an irresistibly crooked smile, and two months of beach days stretching out before her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen the body of a little girl washes up in an ancient cemetery after a mudslide, and she has red hair just like Jeanie did. Suddenly memories of that haunting day begin to return, and when Stella discovers that other red-headed girls have gone missing as well, she begins to suspect something sinister is at work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore the summer ends, Stella may learn the hard way that when you hunt for monsters, you might find them.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50558249926879,"sku":"9781665973878","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LBqo7v2xy09781665973878.webp?v=1783771079"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alexandra-sirowy.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}