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| Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-GoffStarring: battle-ready Orpen, raised on a small island in post-apocalyptic Ireland, who must venture to the mainland after tragedy strikes.
What's she fighting? a menacing horde of zombies (aka skrakes); her own fears of life beyond the safety of home.
Why you might like it: With a charming, capable heroine at its center and atmospheric world-building, this action-packed novel will appeal to fans of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and zombie flick 28 Days Later. |
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Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones
by Micah Dean Hicks
The premise: In depressed Swine Hill, the dead outnumber the living, whom they possess to keep the barely functioning town afloat.
What happens: Henry is forced by his ghost to create a race of hybrid pig people that render Swine Hill's workforce obsolete. Now it's up to Henry's sister Jane (herself possessed by a telepathic ghost) to save her family before the townsfolk kill their entire family.
Read it for: a heady mix of weird fiction and allegory.
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The Brink
by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth
What happens: After subterranean creatures escape from the New York City subway, former mayor Tom Cafferty and his team must save the world from apocalypse -- and the secret organization that may be responsible for the carnage.
Series alert: The Brink is the 2nd in the bestselling Awakened series.
Book buzz: Crucible author James Rollins calls The Brink "a white-knuckled rollercoaster."
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Growing things and other stories
by Paul Tremblay
What's in it: An anthology of psychological suspense tales by the award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts includes such entries as "The Teacher," "The Getaway" and "Swim Wants to Know If It's as Bad as Swim Thinks."
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The Pandora Room
by Christopher Golden
What it's about: When the mythological Pandora's Box is found in a subterranean Iraqi city, Department of Defense fixer Ben Walker is called in to investigate the threats coming both from the artifact itself and from the jihadist forces eager to harness its power.
Why you might like it: This eerie claustrophobic chiller offers well-developed characters, formidable human and supernatural adversaries, and pulse-pounding tension.
Series alert: The Pandora Room is the 2nd Ben Walker novel, following the Bram Stoker Award-winning Ararat.
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| Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayWhat it is: the haunting story of three schoolgirls' disappearance from a trip in the Australian bush; when one student returns, she has no memory of where she's been...or what happened to her classmates.
Media buzz: Adapted for screens big and small, Picnic at Hanging Rock was most recently revisited in the 2018 Amazon Prime miniseries starring Natalie Dormer.
Try this next: Riley Sager's contemporary psychological suspense novel The Last Time I Lied, itself an homage to Joan Lindsay's 1967 classic. |
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The ghost writer
by John Harwood
What it's about: Plagued with unpleasant memories of his mother's death, shy Gerard Freeman is obsessed with the manuscript of a century old ghost story written by his great-grandmother and entrusted to his care.
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Razorhurst
by Justine Larbalestier
What it's about: In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.
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100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
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http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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