Sci-Fi / Fantasy/ Horror / Graphic Novel
July - August 2022
The Big Dark Sky
by Dean R. Koontz

Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she’d long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves—and humanity.
Fairy Tale
by Stephen King

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau : a novel
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around her as passion is ignited in the sweltering heat of the jungle where a motley group of monstrosities await.
Upgrade : a novel
by Blake Crouch

When his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind.
Just Like Home
by Sarah Gailey

Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house, finding out just how deep the rot goes. 
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
by Becky Chambers

Returning from Panga, Sibling Dex, a Tea Monk, and Mosscap, a robot, focus on finding answers and making new friends on the small moon they call home, in the second novel of the series following A Psalm for the Wild-Built.
The Pallbearers Club : a novel
by Paul Tremblay

A volunteer pallbearer for poorly attended funerals, Art Barbara, a 17-year-old loner in the 1980s, meets a cool girl who has an obsessive knowledge of strange, terrifying things that he tries to make sense of years later while writing a book that she begins making cuts to. 
What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher

When his receives world that his childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying,  Alex Easton races to the House of Usher where he, after encountering a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, recruits a British mycologist and a baffled American doctor to unravel the truth. 
The Book Eaters
by Sunyi Dean

Part of The Family, a secret line of people for whom books are food, Devon, raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories, discovers that real life doesn't always come with happy endings when her son is born with an insatiable hunger for human minds.
Thrust
by Lidia Yuknavitch

A motherless girl from the 21st century who is a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time, Laisve, rescuing vulnerable figures from the margins of history, seeks to forge a connection to save their shared dream of freedom.
Glacier's Edge
by R. A. Salvatore

Jarlaxie, the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, must escape the ice caverns and get help for his friends by pulling together a team with unimaginable power in the follow-up to Starlight Enclave. 
The Book of Gothel
by Mary McMyne

In this reimagining of Rapunzel, as told from the witchs perspective, Haelewise, after her mother dies, finds the legendary towerthe Gothelwhere she encounters Rika, who carries a dark secret the Church strives to keep hiddenone of ancient spells and murderous nobles. 
Old Country / : Your First Home Can Be a Nightmare
by Matt Query

When a malevolent spirit that lives in the valley, growing stronger each season, former marine Harry and his wife Sasha find everything they thought they knew about the world challenged by evil. 
Three Miles Down / : A Novel of First Contact in the Tumultuous 1970s
by Harry Turtledove

In 1974, a grad student in marine biology at UCLA, recruited to the top-secret Project Azorian, learns the real reason they are diving in the north Pacific Ocean, in this original take on First Contact..
Mary : an awakening of terror
by Nat Cassidy

Mary, a middle-aged woman plagued by hot flashes and voices in her head, moves back home, hoping to reconnect with her past and inner self, but instead begins experiencing strange phenomena related to an infamous serial killerone who wants the killings to begin again. 
Hooked
by A. C Wise

Captain Hook, the immortal pirate of Neverland, escapes through a door in the sky to live in London 22 years later where he runs into a grown-up Wendy Darling who understands the dark shadows cast on both their lives. 
Flying the Coop
by Lucinda Roy

Struggling with her shocking metamorphosis while her friends battle their own demons, Ji-Ji embarks on a journey to liberate herself and defy the status quo in the second novel of the series following The Freedom Race. 
Master of Furies
by Raymond E. Feist

When his wife is murdered by ruthless raiders, Declan Smith, hellbent on revenge, joins forces with a man on the same mission, while Hava, whose gift for piracy has earned the name of The Sea Demon, closes in on those who unleased the murderous hordes. 
The Spear Cuts Through Water
by Simon Jimenez

When an ancient god escapes her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors, she, along with a guard broken by a guilt-stricken past and an outcast fighting for his future, embarks on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom and end the Moon Throne forever. 
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
by Foz Meadows

Being forced into an arranged, diplomatic marriage to a girl from Tithena, Velasin vin Aaro reveals his preference for men and finds himself engaged to his intendeds brother instead, despite such relationships being forbidden. 
Juniper & Thorn
by Ava Reid

Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father...Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside world. 
The Final Strife
by Saara El-Arifi

Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. 
The Monsters We Defy
by L. Penelope

In 1925 Washington, D.C., Clara Johnson, in debt to the spirit world, must steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District, and to pull off this daring heist, assembles an unlikely team to do the impossible to save their community and their lives. 
The Art of Prophecy : a novel
by Wesley Chu

When the prophecy anoints the wrong hero, Jian decides to save the kingdom from a cruel immortal god-king anyway with the help of a ragtag group of allies, including a grandmaster of magical marital arts, a straight-laced warrior and a chaotic assassin.
Babel : Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution
by R. F. Kuang

A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxfords prestigious Royal Institute of Translation.
Dirty Lying Faeries
by Sabrina Blackburry

After running into Devin Grayson at an art gala, Thea Kanelo discovers that he is a powerful fairy and must also come to terms with the fact that she is also fae, despite not believing in them. 
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