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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Seth Grahame-Smith
A classic tale of love and manners, now with added zombies. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy fight the undead while navigating societal expectations.
In early 19th-century England, a zombie plague has spread across the country. Miss Elizabeth Bennet, a young woman, lives with her parents and four sisters. Mr. Bennet drills his daughters in martial ... (Wikipedia)
The Inside Story
by Michael Buckley
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of a hit TV show, filled with drama, secrets, and unexpected twists.
After the shocking ending of The Everafter War , this book picks up with Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck stuck in the Book of Everafter, where all the fairy tales are stored and enchanted characters can ... (Goodreads)
The Birth House
by Ami McKay
A young midwife in a small Nova Scotia village navigates the challenges of childbirth and women's rights in the early 20th century.
Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Scotia and creates a rich tableau of characters to tell the story of childbirth from its most secretive ... (Goodreads)
Play Dead
by Anne Frasier
A detective and a serial killer's daughter team up to catch a murderer. But the past haunts them both.
No one is more familiar with Savannah's dark side than homicide detective and native resident Elise Sandburg. She's been haunted for years by her own mysterious past: she was abandoned as a baby in ... (Goodreads)
Wishin' and Hopin'
by Wally Lamb
A coming-of-age story set in the 1960s, following a young boy's journey through Catholic school and his first crush.
Fifth-grader Felix Funicello (Ralff), the cousin of famous Mickey Mouse Club Mousekteer and teen idol / movie actress Annette Funicello , lives in the fictional small town of Three Rivers, ... (Wikipedia)
Bloom
by Kevin Panetta
A young baker falls in love with a musician, but struggles to balance his passion for baking and his desire for a relationship.
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band—if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved ... (Barnes & Noble)
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps children overcome bad habits and behavior through her magical cures and kind heart.
The incomparable Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children good or bad and never scolds but has positive cures for Answer-Backers, Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits. ... (Goodreads)
The Accidental
by Ali Smith
A stranger's arrival disrupts the lives of a family, leading to unexpected connections and revelations.
Set in 2003, the novel consists of three parts: "The Beginning," "Middle" and "The End." Each part contains four separate narrations, one focusing on each member of the Smart family: Eve, the mother, ... (Wikipedia)
Parasite
by Mira Grant
In a world where genetically engineered tapeworms are used to cure diseases, a group of rebels uncovers a sinister conspiracy.
A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen ... (Goodreads)
Blaze
by Richard Bachman
A criminal seeks redemption and a new life, but his past catches up with him.
The story concerns Clayton Blaisdell Jr. (known as "Blaze" for short, thus the title), a mentally handicapped small-time con artist who kidnaps a wealthy gentleman's baby son, in the hopes of ... (Wikipedia)
Deadline
by Mira Grant
A medical thriller about a virus outbreak and its impact on the world.
Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when ... (Goodreads)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
by Betty MacDonald
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle uses her magical cures to help children overcome bad habits and misbehavior.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeve. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because ... (Goodreads)
Deeply Odd
by Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas, a fry cook with supernatural abilities, must save a young boy from a sinister cult.
About a month after the events detailed in Odd Apocalypse, Odd Thomas encounters a demented truck driver. During this encounter, when he touches the trucker, Odd suddenly has a vision of three ... (Wikipedia)
Patient Zero
by Jonathan Maberry
A virus outbreak unleashes a global pandemic, forcing a desperate search for a cure.
The story follows Joe Ledger, a Baltimore detective, who is recruited into the Department of Military Sciences, a specialized entity of the US Government which answers only to the President, to ... (Wikipedia)
White Witch, Black Curse
by Kim Harrison
An adventurous journey to save the world from a powerful blood curse.
New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the sinister and seductive Hollows for the newest blockcuster adventure featuring Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter. White Witch, Black ... (Goodreads)
Annie on My Mind
by Nancy Garden
A tender story of two teenage girls falling in love and finding their place in the world.
Liza Winthrop first meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a rainy day. The two become fast friends, although they come from different backgrounds and have differing levels of ... (Wikipedia)
Extras
by Scott Westerfeld
A young girl's fight to win a place in society, challenging the status quo.
A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. “Tech-heads” flaunt their latest gadgets, “kickers” spread gossip and trends, and ... (Goodreads)
Forbidden
by Tabitha Suzuma
A forbidden love story between siblings, challenging societal norms and morality.
She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But... they are brother and sister. ... (Goodreads)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm
by Betty MacDonald
A family of mischievous animals learn lessons in kindness, responsibility and self-control.
Ms. Piggle-Wiggle's left her upside-down town house and has moved to a farm in the country. With the help of her cows and pigs and horses, she's still curing girls and boys of their bad habits. So ... (Goodreads)
Pale Demon
by Kim Harrison
A female witch is forced to take a cross-country road trip with a bounty hunter to clear her name.
"I wouldn’t miss a Kim Harrison book for anything."—Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, New York Times, bestselling urban fantasy superstar Kim Harrison is back with, Pale ... (Barnes & Noble)
Takedown Twenty
by Janet Evanovich
A comedic crime caper featuring the adventures of a female bounty hunter.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. ... (Goodreads)
Forest of Secrets
by Erin Hunter
A young cat uncovers secrets and conspiracies within her clan, risking everything to protect her loved ones.
Allegiances are shifting among the Clans of warrior cats that roam the forest. With tensions so delicately balanced, former friends can become enemies overnight, and some cats are willing to kill to ... (Goodreads)
Rising Storm
by Erin Hunter
Follow a group of young cats as they take on the responsibility of protecting their forest home.
Fireheart's traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished and exiled from Thunder Clan – but Fireheart can't shake the feeling that he's lurking in the forest, waiting for his chance to strike. ... (Goodreads)
The Bachman Books
by Richard Bachman
Four short horror stories exploring themes of justice, revenge and mortality.
Omnibus collection of four early Bachman novels (Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man) and the essay "Why I Was Bachman" ... (Goodreads)
A Dangerous Path
by Erin Hunter
A young cat's adventure as they battle to save their home and protect their clan.
When a pack of dogs begins to run wild in the forest, Fireheart, deputy of ThunderClan, suspects that Tigerstar, ShadowClan's new leader, is behind it. Bluestar names Cloudpaw a warrior even though ... (Wikipedia)
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
A young man's inner turmoil as he struggles to reconcile his true self with society's expectations.
The protagonist is referred to in the story as Kochan, which is the diminutive of the author's real name: Kimitake. Being raised during Japan's era of right-wing militarism and Imperialism, he ... (Wikipedia)
The Iron King
by Maurice Druon
Epic historical fiction of the Middle Ages, as dynasties pay the price of ambition.
Set in the 14th century during the reigns of the last five kings of the direct Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois , the series begins as the French King Philip the Fair , ... (Wikipedia)
The Walking Dead: Compendium One
by Robert Kirkman
Survivors of a zombie apocalypse battle hordes of the undead while struggling to retain their humanity.
Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally ... (Goodreads)
Thinner
by Richard Bachman
A man cursed by a gypsy to lose weight uncontrollably seeks revenge on those who wronged him.
Billy Halleck, a successful, arrogant, and morbidly obese lawyer, is distracted while driving across town by his wife Heidi giving him a blowjob , and he runs over an elderly Romani woman as a ... (Wikipedia)
The Atrocity Archives
by Charles Stross
Bob Howard, a computer programmer, becomes a secret agent fighting supernatural threats to the UK. A blend of sci-fi, horror, and spy thriller.
NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost ... (Goodreads)
