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Sci-Fi / Fantasy/ Horror / Graphic NovelSeptember 2019
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The Institute by Stephen KingPublished to coincide with the release of It: Chapter Two, a supernatural thriller finds an abducted youth imprisoned in an inescapable institute, where teens with psychic abilities are subjected to torturous manipulation.
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The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodA long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
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Full Throttle by Joe HillThe best-selling author of Strange Weather presents 13 short stories of supernatural suspense, including "Throttle," co-written by Stephen King, in which a trucker is caught in a sinister dance with motorcycle outlaws in the Nevada desert.
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Imaginary Friend by Stephen ChboskyA highly anticipated follow-up to The Perks of Being a Wallflower finds a single mother's desperate efforts to escape an abusive relationship thrown into turmoil by her son's disappearance and reappearance days later with an imaginary friend.
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Ninth House by Leigh BardugoSurviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university's secret societies.
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At Death's Door by Sherrilyn KenyonTrapped inside a voodoo doll after a spell gone wrong, a cursed woman is offered a chance at a new life by fighting against the beast that is consuming her world. By the best-selling author of the Chronicles of Nick.
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Boundless by R. A. SalvatoreRestored to life centuries after his death, Zaknafein, the father of Drizzt, struggles to adapt to a world where different races and genders are accepted, before dark forces compel him to reclaim his warrior heritage.
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Lost and Found Possessions by Orson Scott CardThe Hugo Award-winning author of Ender’s Game presents the story of a youth whose psychic ability to find lost objects is challenged by police suspicions and the disappearance of his best friend.
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A Trick of Light by Stan Lee"From Stan Lee, the pop culture legend behind Marvel's The Avengers, Black Panther, X-Men, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, and Iron Man, comes a major literary event featuring two heroic teenagers-one born with extraordinary gifts, one unwillingly transformed. Together they can change the world . . . or put it in the destructive hands of a danger beyond imagination"
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A Hero Born : a novel by Yong JinA U.S. release of an epic Chinese classic is set in the years between the Song Empire and the rise of Genghis Khan and traces the story of a murdered patriot’s son who fulfills his destiny in a divided China. Illustrations.
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Gamechanger by L. X. BeckettA late-21st-century public defender who helps individuals with anti-social behavior tries to figure out why her client, Luciano Pox, is wanted by world governments and why he is determined to stop the recovery of the planet.
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The Princess Beard: the Tales of Pell by Delilah S DawsonA latest romp by the best-selling author of Kill the Farm Boy follows the experiences of a princess who awakens alone from a cursed sleep before passing herself off as a male pirate alongside a swashbuckling crew of otherworldly shipmates.
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The Umbrella Academy - Hotel Oblivion by Gerard WaySeveral years after Sir Reginald Hargreeve’s death, the scattered members of the Umbrella Academy are just trying to cope with their lives until the past comes back to haunt them.
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A Little Hatred by Joe AbercrombieFrom a New York Times best-selling author comes the first book in a fantasy trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die.
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Doomsday Clock by Geoff JohnsAs the Doomsday Clock ticks toward midnight, the DC Universe will encounter with its greatest threat: Dr. Manhattan. But nothing is hidden from Manhattan, and the secrets of the past, present and future will leave ramifications on our heroes lives forever.
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Warrior of the Altaii by Robert JordanA previously unpublished novel by the late best-selling author of the Wheel of Time series finds the leader of the Altaii people reaching out to a visitor from another world to save his people from environmental hazards and dangerous adversaries.
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The Twisted Ones by T. KingfisherWhen a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods. By a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.
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Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead : Typhoon by Wesley Chu"In this white-knuckled and high-stakes thriller, set in the expansive world of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead series, three different people in China--a rural farmer, an urban military veteran, and a Chinese American grad student--are caught in the typhoon of undead walkers as the virus sweeps over the most populous country in Asia.
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