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Fiction

The Guest List

April 4, 2022 by Andrea Leave a Comment

The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Format: Book
Who’s it for: Adults

On a rocky remote island off the coast of Ireland, guest gather at the most talked about wedding of the year. A top magazine editor and a TV heartthrob are going to be married, and everyone wants to attend the high profile and glamourous wedding. As the guests arrive from the mainland so do the secrets and the scandals. The perfect couple may not be as perfect as they appear and one by one the guests begin to reveal their troubling pasts with the bride and groom to be.

On a stormy night, as the guests toast with champagne, the power goes out and the guests are left in the dark. In the distance, a scream can be heard and a body is discovered. Suddenly, every guest has become a suspect, and it’s up to the reader to fit the clues together to find out who the killer is and why?

Reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, The Guest List is a true Whodunnit. Clues are given, secrets disclosed and the reader begins guessing who the killer is and what was the motive. The Guest List is a gripping and fun read with interesting characters against a dramatic, almost sinister, island backdrop. The Guest List is an irresistible and binge worthy suspense, just waiting to be checked out!  Find The Guest List in the catalog.

Filed Under: Recommended for Adults Tagged With: Fiction, Mystery

The Last Thing He Told Me

March 9, 2022 by Andrea Leave a Comment

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Format: Book
Whose it for: Adults

Hold on to your hat…this is a quick binge reading book if ever there was one! The Last Thing He Told Me begins with Hannah Hall waiting for her husband, Owen, to return from work. As she’s making dinner she hears a knock at her door and a young girl from the school where Owen teaches hands her a note from Owen. The note says “PROTECT HER”. Hannah immediately knows that the ‘her’ she needs to protect is Owen’s teenage daughter Bailey, her step daughter.  Hannah and Bailey have always had a difficult relationship and Bailey barely acknowledges Hannah, but Hannah loves Bailey and loves Owen that she must figure this out and try to protect her family. Hannah doesn’t know where her husband is, if he will ever return or why Bailey needs protecting. As Hannah asks questions and traces Owen’s past, she begins to discover that Owen was not the man she thought she knew. She also begins to believe that she may never see her husband again, and the future they dreamed about may never happen. Hannah must build a new life for her and for Bailey and at all costs, protect Bailey as Owen asked.

The Last Thing He Told Me is a thrilling fast paced mystery about intricate lies, fake identities and complex family relationships. Beware, The Last Thing He Told Me grabs you from the first page and is hard to put down so, prepare to devour it in one or two sittings!

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Filed Under: Recommended for Adults Tagged With: Fiction, Mystery

Testimony from Your Perfect Girl

February 11, 2022 by Bekka Leave a Comment

Testimony from Your Perfect Girl by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Format: Book
Who’s it for: Young Adult

Annie is a wealthy teenager who has everything she could ever want. On the outside, her family seems to be perfect but their entire world comes crashing down when Annie’s father is accused of stealing investment funds from several clients. The entire town begins to shame the family, so Annie and her brother are sent to live in a smaller rural town with their aunt and uncle. Annie knows that her father is innocent, but a lot of others don’t seem to agree. She must come up with another identity to remain in hiding until the trial is over. Annie learns how to make new friends and live a completely different lifestyle, while trying to discover her passions in life. Will she tell her new friends about her true identity or keep it all a secret until she can go back home? This is a story that has new connections, inner conflict, and the ultimate realization that parents are perfectly flawed humans too. Find Testimony from Your Perfect Girl in the catalog!

Filed Under: Recommended for Teens Tagged With: Book, Fiction, Friendship, Love, Self Love

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

January 19, 2022 by Zoey Leave a Comment

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” by Miles Hyman
Format: Graphic novel
Who’s it for: adults

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” continues to thrill and disturb readers even after it was first published. “The Lottery” introduces upsetting questions about conformity, customs and traditions, and the ritualized violence that may besiege even the most rural, passive community.

This graphic adaptation by Jackson’s grandson, Miles Hyman, allows readers to experience “The Lottery” in a new format. In a small American community, the current residents are alive with eagerness and anxiety when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been organized for the town’s yearly ritual—a lottery in which all families must partake, and nobody desires to win.

 

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Filed Under: Recommended for Adults Tagged With: "Short Stories", Dystopia, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Horror

Devolution

November 19, 2021 by Tess Leave a Comment

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
Format: Book, eBook, Digital Audiobook
Who it’s for: Adults

If you’ve read World War Z, you know Max Brooks is the master of writing imagined violent disasters as if they were non-fiction, and his latest book Devolution continues the tradition.

The novel is presented as the diary entries of Kate Holland, resident of Greenloop, a secluded environmentally-conscious neighborhood of telecommuting professionals in the vast forested area of Washington state, interspersed with interviews of other individuals impacted by mysterious events that occurred there in the wake of a volcanic eruption at Mount Rainier.

Kate’s diary begins when she arrives in Greenloop, and the first few entries consist of descriptions of her quirky new neighbors, complaints about her husband Dan, and observations about the elegant “smart” homes. She goes for invigorating nature walks, attends a cathartic meditation class, pretty standard stuff. But after Rainier erupts, and Greenloop is completely cut off from civilization, it becomes apparent that a group of enormous bipedal primates are living in the woods surrounding her community. Sasquatches are real. And they are hungry.

If you like fast-paced adventure, survival stories, or have always been fascinated by the legend of Bigfoot, you should definitely make this your next read.

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Filed Under: Recommended for Adults Tagged With: Adventure, Bigfoot, Book, Digital Audiobook, eBook, Fiction, Survival

The Silver Arrow

September 10, 2021 by Tess Leave a Comment

The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
Format: Book
Who it’s for: Kids

Dear Uncle Herbert,
You’ve never met me but I’m your niece Kate, and since it’s my birthday tomorrow and you are super rich do you think you could please send me a present?
Warmly,
Kate

Kate has no idea when she writes this letter to her Uncle Herbert, whom she has never met, but is told is very rich and very irresponsible, that he will actually show up on her birthday with a present.

She certainly has no idea that the present will be an actual steam engine called “The Silver Arrow.”

She really couldn’t have guessed that tracks would suddenly appear from her backyard into the woods beyond, and that the train will take off along them.

She couldn’t have even had an inkling that talking animals will be waiting with tickets at magic train stops all over the world, and she and her little brother Tom are expected to conduct them to their destinations.

These are the first of many surprises for Kate as she embarks on an adventure filled with thrills and chills in this novel for children by Lev Grossman (author of The Magicians novels for adults) which makes a wonderful read-aloud for families to share together.

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Filed Under: Recommended for Kids Tagged With: Animals, Book, Fiction, Trains

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