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Adult Services Staff Picks October 2021 |
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The Midnight Bargain
by C. L. Polk
Recommended by: Tim
From page one, this book had me enraptured! Beatrice Clayborn is running out of time to find the key to becoming a magus, her greatest wish, before the Bargaining Season leaves her betrothed, her greatest fear. A fast moving plot mixed with root-for-them characters with whimsical fantasy elements? Sign me up!
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My Heart is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones
Recommended by: Sarah L.
Protected by horror movies—especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them—Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake.
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Chasing the Boogeyman
by Richard T. Chizmar
Recommended by: Brandee
A recent college graduate writes a personal account of the terrifying events occurring in his small town where a serial killer has set up shop, unaware that it will continue to haunt him for years.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
Recommended by: Zena
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
Recommended by: Lori
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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Velvet Was the Night
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Recommended by: Sarah V.
In 1970s Mexico City Maite, a secretary with a penchant for romance novels, searches for her missing neighbor Leonora, a beautiful art student, which leads her to an eccentric gangster who longs to escape his own life. Together, they set out to discover the dangerous truth.
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