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New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year
"A new masterpiece of American literature." -Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly
"A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner." -Chuck Palahniuk
Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for...
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Dory is brand-new to her neighborhood, so it's a good thing she has a pet monster to keep her company. When she tells the mailman about her monster, he doesn't believe her. Dory begins to get angry that he's not taking her seriously, so she opens up the mailbox to show him the monster-only to find that the mailbox is empty! Is Dory's monster real, or part of her imagination? Find out what happens to Dory, the mailman, and many others in this collection...
4) Womb City
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"A fierce, furious, and fearless debut that has its finger on the pulse-no, the gushing wound-of our world's most invasive cruelties." -Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Shape of Water
"Masterful . . . Tsamaase has created a disturbing techno dystopia in a future Botswana that terrifies with its echoes of our own increasingly authoritarian cyber-policed world. This beautifully written work haunts and upends expectations...
6) Fatal tide
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"When Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of earthly delights is reunited with the pagans who commissioned it, a dark prophecy begins to unfold in East Salem, beginning with a savage double-murder by hellish creatures straight out of the painting itself. The lone survivor of the attack, a seventeen-year-old Brit, finds sanctuary at Tommy Gunderson's home, and the place is soon surrounded by demons who seem to be biding their time--but for how long?"--Dust jacket...
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"This electrifying, stunningly written debut opens with a killer preying on the women of New York City, but as the body count rises over the course of a summer it becomes clear that he is being driven by something beyond our comprehension--igniting a trilogy that brings a darkly sophisticated twist to the epic fantasy of Deborah Harkness, Lev Grossman, and Diana Gabaldon" --Provided by publisher.
8) Devil's day
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Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather|the Gaffer|has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time. Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which...
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Lots of little brothers can be pests and trouble-makers-but Amy's brother Arnie is a MONSTER …
In this R.L. Stine middle-grade scare fest, Amy and her friend, Lissa, don't know what to do about Arnie's bullying, bad-boy behavior, and mean jokes and pranks. The little monster is ruining their lives!
The girls decide it's payback time. Total humiliation for Arnie. They find a recipe for green slime on a YouTube channel and mix a big bucket to pour...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
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"Richard Hsieh's dad studies dreams, and one day, they decide to hook Richard's new Slappy doll up to the dream machine as a joke. All of a sudden, Richard starts having nightmares of Slappy, coming to life and wreaking havoc. But they're only dreams, right? Except, when his cousin Willow comes to visit, she also dreams of Slappy. It's impossible! But when Slappy threatens to invade more kids' dreams, they'll have to figure out how to defeat him before...
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Awakened novels volume 2
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"Former NYC Mayor Tom Cafferty has been haunted by memories of the hyper intelligent, bloodthirsty creatures that attacked his city. But the attack was not an isolated incident - now the creatures have spread worldwide. And a secret organization is holding nations hostage with the knowledge of how to kill them. Will Cafferty and his team be able to save the entire planet from an apocalyptic scale disaster?"--Publisher description.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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"Twelve-year-old haunt huntress apprentice Evangeline Clement spends her days and nights studying the ways of folk magic, honing her monster-hunting skills while pursuing local bayou banshees and Johnny revenants. With her animal familiar sure to make itself known any day now, the only thing left to do is prove to the council she has heart. Then she will finally be declared a true haunt huntress, worthy of following in the footsteps of her long line...
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Scholastic, Inc
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[2023]
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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149 pages ; 20 cm
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More terrifying than ever, this first book introduces a brand-new Goosebumps series that features an all new cast of villains and monsters whose antics are destined to make them every bit as beloved as Slappy.
15) A tempest of tea
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Blood and tea volume 1
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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First edition.
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338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Arthie Casimir, a criminal mastermind, transforms her tearoom into an illegal bloodhouse for vampires, but when her establishment is threatened, she forms an unlikely alliance and assembles a misfit crew to infiltrate vampire society and uncovers a world-threatening conspiracy.
17) Fade to black
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Mila Chun wishes she knew what to say to the boy she likes, but she's too shy. So when her best friend, Junie Weid, hands her a script detailing how to converse with him, Mila is relieved. However, it doesn't take long before Mila feels like she's acting in a TV show and decides to ditch her lines. After abandoning the script, Mila experiences strange things. Flashes of light and people laughing in the background, big chunks of her time that go unaccounted...
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London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the scepter, and an arsenal of bloodstained weaponry. If Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there's the small matter of the undead to take care of first--and to her surprise, the queen is the one person who can hunt them down. Can she dedicate her life to saving her country when her heart belongs to Prince Albert?There were many staff at Kensington Palace, fulfilling...
19) The bad ones
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2024.
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Teenage Nora uncovers dangerous secrets and eerie local lore surrounding disappearances in her small town, where a teacher and three high school students, including her best friend, go missing.
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Delacorte Press
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[2024]
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First edition.
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453 pages ; 22 cm
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Looking for a fresh start, sixteen-year-old Libby and her family return to her mother's childhood home only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past.
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