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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer--who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company--as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop him.
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Language
English
Description
Returning from The Great War a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental, James Falconer, determined to make amends to his daughter, Leonie, now a grown woman who wants nothing to do with him, works toward healing his body, soul and family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake.--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Centering around celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh, who was lauded in public but was carelessly selfish at home, three generations of McDaragh women must contend with inheritances—poetic wonder, abandonment and a sustaining love—in this intricately woven tapestry of longing, betrayal and hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend, and must summon everything she’s inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
11) Black mouth
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Warren, his estranged brother, and their childhood friends are drawn back to their hometown to confront their memories of a strange man who taught them strange magic that led to a terrible act that still haunts them.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails girl whose choices are few but whose imagination is boundless, as her manner of coping with trauma becomes an adventure for everyone in her holler.
14) After the forest
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after escaping a witch, Greta and Hans are struggling in the aftermath of a brutal war, but Greta still has the witch’s grimoire and plans to keep her family afloat with a delicious gingerbread recipe.
15) Into the light
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 2010 Kajak, Afghanistan, Corporal Loyette and his unit, to escape days mixed with boredom and dread, make a clandestine trip to explore a Soviet-era militia house rumored to be haunted and find themselves changed in horrific ways from this house that will not let them go.
18) Animal: a novel
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child--that has haunted her every waking moment--while forging the power to finally strike back.--
19) House of cotton
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. Magnolia...
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