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The book of speculation
Erika Swyler - St. Martin's Press, 2015. Format: Print book
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"Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsSimon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made... |
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe - Voice; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic charm and eloquence that achieves high literary merit while concocting a gripping... |
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition Format: Hardcover
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One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a flight risk, and her medical recordschronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory... |
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman - Blue Rider Press Format: Print book
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"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about... |
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The Witchfinder's Sister
Beth Underdown - Ballantine Format: Print book
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A thrilling debut novel, a literary historical thriller based on the devastating witch hunts in 1640s England conducted by "Witchfinder General" Matthew Hopkins - for readers of Sarah Waters and Katherine Howe. Before Salem, there was Manningtree. . . . "This... |
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Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr - HarperCollins; Reprint edition
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Rule Dont stare at invisible faeriesAislinn has always seen faeries Powerful and dangerous they walk hidden in mortal world Aislinn fears their crueltyespecially if they learn of her Sightand wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teensRule Dont speak to invisible faeriesNow... |
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My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel
Grady Hendrix - Blackstone Audio, Inc. Format: Audiobook
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Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of ET, roller-skating parties, and scratch-and-sniff stickers. But when they arrive at high school, things change. Gretchen begins to act . . . different. And as the strange coincidences and bizarre... |
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