Summer Scares 2022 - Adult Reading List

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Summer Scares Pick #1

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"A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the mother of chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father."--Back cover.

2) My favorite thing is monsters: Book one

Author

Ferris, Emil

Series

My favorite thing is monsters volume 1

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Summer Scares pick #2

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"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around...

3) remaking

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4) The only good Indians: a novel

Author

Jones, Stephen Graham

Series

Thorndike Press large print thriller

Formats:

Book, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Hardback

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"Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on retribution, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way."--

5) The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

Author

Solana, Teresa

Description

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An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also includes a sparkling web of Barcelona stories--connected...

6) Never have I ever: stories

Author

Yap, Isabel

Formats:

Book - Paperback, eBook

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"Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap's debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, "A Spell for Foolish Hearts" to the terrifying tension of the urban legend "Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.""--

7) Things we lost in the fire: stories

Author

Enriquez, Mariana

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"A haunting collection of short stories all set in Argentina" --

8) Paper girls: Book one

Author

Vaughan, Brian K

Series

Paper girls volume 1

Description

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From Brian K. Vaughan, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoing adventure.In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood. Collecting...

9) Children of Chicago

Author

Pelayo, Cynthia

Series

Chicago saga volume 1

Formats:

eBook, Kindle

Description

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2021 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

2021 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER

"GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOUR HEART THUMP AND SKIN CRAWL"—The New York Times

A gripping, modern-day spin on the Pied Piper fairy tale, as well as a gritty love letter to the underworld of Chicago from acclaimed Bram Stoker nominee Cynthia Pelayo.

Reminiscent of the Bloody Mary

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10) Skim

Author

Tamaki, Mariko

Formats:

Book - Paperback, eComic

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"Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.

11) A cosmology of monsters: a novel

Author

Hamill, Shaun

12) hex

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13) experimental film

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14) Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel

Author

Danforth, Emily M

Formats:

eAudiobook, eBook

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The Favourite meets The Haunting of Hill House in this highly imaginative and original highbrow horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls, a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit - and the highly-anticipated adult debut from the award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls....