July 2017 list by Darlene Nethery
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"The woman had a very determined expression on her face, one that might have given pause to a more intelligent demon than Edgefast." ~ from John Connolly's The Infernals
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Abigale Hall
by Lauren A. Forry
After losing their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide, 17-year-old Eliza, along with her troubled little sister, Rebecca, arrives at Abigale Hall for work where she soon learns that the worst is to come as she tries to unravel the mysteries of the house and save her sister, who has fallen under the spell of the vicious housekeeper, from certain doom.
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Behind the Moon
by Madison Smartt Bell
After she escapes a sexual assault in the desert and falls into an underground cave, Julie lies unconscious in the hospital, travelling in a seductive parallel universe inspired by remarkable cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans, all while her attacker, Marko, tries to threaten witnesses of the attack into silence. By a National Book Award finalist.
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Little Sister
by Barbara Gowdy
Experiencing disturbing dreams about being in another woman's body during a summer thunderstorm outbreak, Rose discovers from her dementia-patient mother the existence and traumatic story of her late younger sister. By the award-winning author of Helpless.
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Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
by Chris Vola
A vampire who has lived in Brooklyn for 128 years forsakes his immortality when he travels to Manhattan to rescue the woman he has fallen in love with, Jennifer, who has been kidnapped by a different tribe of vampires.
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Skitter
by Ezekiel Boone
Millions of people are dead across the globe after mysterious flesh-eating spiders have marched through countless cities and a glowing egg sack the size of a truck appears in Japan, in this follow-up to Hatching.
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Sweet Lamb of Heaven
by Lydia Millet
Fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, who has just launched his first campaign for political office, Lydia, accompanied by her 6-year-old daughter, races from Alaska to Maine and hides in a dingy motel as her husband's pursuit escalates from threatening to criminal. By the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of Magnificence.
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