May 2017 list by Darlene Nethery
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"Everyone’s heard of the show, and many have seen it, but no one can remember what they saw." ~ from Robert Jackson Bennet's The Troupe
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Banshees
by Mike Baron
Notorious for their satanic lyrics, drunken excess and rumors of blood sacrifice, the Banshees shocked the world with their only album Beat the Manshees. Death stalked their concerts--lightning, stabbings, overdoses. The world heaved a sigh of relief when the Banshees all died in a plane crash. Or did they?
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The Case of the Green-Dressed Ghost
by Lucy Banks
Kester Lanner didn’t know what to expect when he followed his mother’s dying request to contact the mysterious Dr. Ribero, but he wasn’t expecting to find his long lost father. Nor was he expecting to join the family business: catching supernatural spirits.
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Dark Titan Journey: Wilderness Travel
by Thomas A. Watson
Nathan Owens has been prepping for a disaster like this for years. But when it occurs, he is far from his family and his refuge. He has to pull together a team of young survivalists and, as he reluctantly leads them across the hellscape of what was once the United States. In the midst of this treacherous journey, Nathan discovers that maybe Armageddon wasn’t an accident of nature after all. But how can he prove it—before it's too late?
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Feral
by James Demonaco
Allie Hilts was still in high school when a fire at a top-secret research facility released an air-borne pathogen that quickly spread to every male on the planet, killing most. Allie witnessed every man she ever knew be consumed by fearsome symptoms: scorching fevers and internal bleeding, madness and uncontrollable violence. The world crumbled around her. No man was spared, and the few survivors were irrevocably changed. They became disturbingly strong, aggressive, and ferocious. Feral.
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Thirteen Views of the Suicide Woods
by Bracken Macleod
These stories inhabit the dark places where pain and resignation intersect, and the fear of a quiet moment alone is as terrifying as the unseen thing watching from behind the treeline. In the titular story, a young woman waits for her father to come home from the place where no one goes intending to return. A single word is the push that may break a man and save a life.
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Three Masquerades
by Rachel Ingalls
I See a Long Journey introduces us to Flora . Things, as they so often do in Ingalls’ world, will go appalling awry.
Friends in the Country wherein a young couple drive outside of London for a Friday dinner and find themselves trapped for the weekend.
On Ice finds Beverley with her fiancé at an elegant hotel where she is introduced to a grande dame whose funeral Beverley’s convinced she had witnessed 10 years before.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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