King, Stephen
Summary: Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else? He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams ... and all-too-human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCrouch, Blake
Summary: On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town will disappear, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone will be found -- not even the gold that was rumored to have been the pride of this town. One hundred and thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a leading history professor and his journalist daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CROBockoven, Mike
Summary: "FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: When vampire hunter Anita Blake confronts The Harlequin, terrifying, powerful creatures feared even by the centuries-old vampires, rivals Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, the alpha werewolf, must become allies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2007
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Summary: Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right. The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITJackson, Shirley
Summary: Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACBear, Greg
Summary: When a new information channel that enables the transmission of unprecedented volumes of data is developed, the bandwidth's users begin having strange experiences that lead to the realization that it might be a pathway to the spirit realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAHopstaken, Steven
Summary: Years before either becomes a literary legend, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde must overcome their disdain for one another to battle the Black Bishop, a mysterious madman wielding supernatural forces to bend the British Empire to his will. With the help of a European vampire expert, a spirited actress and an American businessman, our heroes fight werewolves, vampires and the chains of Victorian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flame Tree Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPStrange, Vera
Summary: Second Star to the Fright, Book 3 of the all-new Disney Chills chapter book series, tells the tale of a kid who finds he's hooked far more than he can handle when Captain Hook creeps out of Neverland and into our world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STRWhite, Kiersten
Summary: "Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known as the Circle of Friends, have spent their lives searching for the happiness they felt while they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIStine, R. L.
Summary: Erin and her brother Marty love Shock Street horror films until a tour of the Shocker studio theme park shows them that real life is a whole lot scarier than the movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC STIMoulton, Deke
Summary: Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat... just drink a little blood. They're vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family. Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in his life (well, immortal life) than just drinking blood, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOUSimmons, Kristen
Summary: Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SIMHill, Joe.
Summary: After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILClark, Aubrey.
Summary: An epic battle looms one that will not only determine Elena's own fate, but that of her entire world. Since her true love Stefan was staked through the heart, everything has changed for Elena. Stefan was hunted down by a scientist who has created a new race of genetically-engineered vampires to take over the paranormal world. Intent on eliminating all the natural vampires left on earth, Damon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIFracassi, Philip
Summary: "St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAWills, S. J.
Summary: In the remote, isolated town of Tremorglade, where all the adults are werewolves, thirteen-year-old Sel and the other kids begin to suspect something else sinister is putting them at even greater risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILTuma, Refe
Summary: "Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUMWaggoner, Tim
Summary: "Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAGDavidson, Andy
Summary: Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow. It turns out that the estate is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVMauleón, Daniel
Summary: When twelve-year-old Rosa finds herself in the Library of Doom, she runs into a hungry When-Where-Why-Wraith and must overcome this question creature to return home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAUHendrix, Grady
Summary: "Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENArden, Katherine
Summary: "When the carnival arrives in town Coco, Brian, and Phil must work together to save Ollie from the smiling man"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARDArmstrong, Kelley
Summary: "Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who've fled after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023