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The job of the wasp : a novel
by Colin Winnette
What it's about: A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys, soon realizing that there is something sinister afoot in his new home, starts to unravel a mystery at the school’s dark heart that results in murder.
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The dead house : a novel
by Billy O'Callaghan
What it is: A best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller.
What it's about: Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she's healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it. When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife.
Where it goes wrong: On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board. What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go.
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The third hotel
by Laura Van den Berg
What it's about: Attending a film festival with tickets purchased by her recently deceased husband, a grieving widow is shocked to discover her husband alive and must navigate an increasingly blurred line between reality and fantasy to uncover the truth. By the author of Find Me.
What's been said about it: The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers.
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| The Terror by Dan SimmonsTrapped! In this well-researched and intricately plotted fictionalization of the disastrous Franklin Expedition, the crews of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus reckon with frostbite, snow-blindness, disease, mutiny...and a monstrous creature on the ice.
Reviewers say: "Outstanding" (Booklist); "One of Simmons' best" (Kirkus).
Book buzz: AMC's new horror anthology series (also called The Terror) adapted this grisly historical novel for its first season, which debuted in March 2018. |
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Meg : Hell's aquarium
by Steve Alten
What it's about: David Taylor agrees to escort two of Angel's litter to Dubai, where a royal prince is building the world's largest aquarium, unaware that he is being set up to lead an expedition into the dangerous Panthalassa ocean, hidden beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.
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Into the drowning deep
by Mira Grant
What it's about: Victoria Stewart and her crew sail to the Mariana Trench, in the hopes of discovering the fate of the Atargatis—which, along with its crew, including Victoria's sister, was lost at sea during the crew's attempt to film a mockumentary on ancient sea creatures of legend.
About the author: By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Natural selection
by Dave Freedman
What it's about: Intrigued by a series of mysterious attacks on ocean wildlife, a group of scientists stumbles upon evidence of a prehistoric manta ray that has evolved into a dangerous predator, but when they set out to study the creature, they discover that the leader of the rays has figured out how to fly and is attacking people on a remote island in the region. A first novel.
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The Deep: A Novel
by Nick Cutter
What it's about: In a sealed research lab eight miles under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, three scientists work feverishly to find a cure for a plague that threatens to wipe out humanity. After several days with no communication from the researchers, veterinarian Luke Nelson, whose brother is in the undersea lab, travels into the depths to find out what's wrong. When Luke arrives, he finds a nightmarish situation where the distinction between real violence and hallucination is increasingly blurred.
What they are saying: Horror in The Deep is "notable both for quantity and quality," says Publishers Weekly.
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Pacific vortex!
by Clive Cussler
What it's about: When a top secret American nuclear submarine mysteriously disappears from the depths of the ocean, Dirk Pitt is ordered to locate and salvage the submarine.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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