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The Face This novel is Keeps you on the edge of your seat as you read it. As it takes you through the life of Aelfric Manheim. Aelfric (Fric) is a young man in his teen years who has learned to taking care of himself with out his parents. Channing Manheim, Aelfric's father, is a famous movie star doing at least three movies a year and his mother is a supermodel, traveling her life away. Since his parents have such demanding jobs Fric is forced to be alone at home. The problem comes into play when Fric begins to get wierd phone calls from a guy known as "the Face". At first the calls mean nothing but then begin to become more and more unamusing to Fric. After a short time the find out the name of the man making the phone calls and find out that the name used was that of a dead man. Fric and his father decide to get a spiritual advisor to determine everything just to find out that it indeed it was a lingering spirit making these calls everyday. As the days go on Truman, Fric's home security guard looks more into it becoming a protector f Fric.

Strange Highways This is not so much a novel as it is a collection of short stories. There were a total of 14 stories in the book. The first short story in the book is what gives the book it's name. It's called Strange Highways. This story is about a man who has a large drinking problem namer Joey. He has to return to his home town to attend his father's funeral. On the way there he thinks about all the way he has disappointed his father and drinks some more. When he gets there he see how much of a success his brother is and how much he realized his father loved him. This makes Joey want to leave so he goes immediatly after the funeral but, before he goes he sees a ghost and just treats as he imagined it. On his way home he sees a road that was not there before. Then he begins to remember that it was there but had been torn away and made useless. The road looked new like it had just been place there just minutes ago and also had a house on the end of the road. He begins to travel on this road and soon realize that it was the road to his salvation. The road took him to the past and allowed him to alter only one important event in his life to change his future.