Evenson, Brian
Summary: "'Here is how monstrous humans are.' A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men-of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story collection, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEEvenson, Brian
Summary: When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2016
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Summary: Provost Eldon Fochs may be a sexual criminal. His therapist isn't sure, and his church is determined to protect its reputation. Father of Lies is Brian Evenson's fable of power, paranoia, and the dangers of blind obedience, and a terrifying vision of how far institutions will go to protect themselves against the innocents who may be their victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEEvison, Jonathan.
Summary: After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVIAudrain, Ashley
Summary: "A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021
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Summary: "In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Blooms 2020Shelby, Ashley
Summary: " Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: Eight years ago, Shay Evans and her friend escaped a cult. Now, as she searches for answers to her friend's death, Shay is consumed by her obsession to uncover the truth, and by darker desires newly reawakened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel that will keep you turning pages into the early hours, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who wrestles to reconcile her daily life as a single bookstore owner with the alternate reality she suddenly begins to dream about each night, in which she is a happily-married wife and mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASwanson, Peter
Summary: From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing--the hair-raising tale of a young suburban wife who believes a killer is living right next door. And fears only the next murder, maybe her own, will make everyone believe her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: Bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders. But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookshop in Boston, when an FBI agent comes looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on his old list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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Summary: Abigail Baskin fell in love with millionaire Bruce Lamb: stable, level-headed, kind. He's a refreshing twist from her previous relationships. When she has a drunken, anonymous one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend, Abigail puts the incident out of her mind. When the stranger reappears, Abigail's future life and happiness are turned upside down. He insists that their passionate night was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Abigail Baskin never thought she'd fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Then the mysterious stranger suddenly appears--and Abigail's future life and happiness are turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SWAEvans, Justin.
Summary: 30-year-old George Davies's childhood memories to reveal ominous visions and mysteries that have been long suppressed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVAEvans, Nicholas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2003
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Summary: Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022