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The Murder of Mr. Ma
by Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
November 12, 2024
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In 1924 London, Lao She, a shy young academic, is summoned to the home of mathematician Bertrand Russell. When he arrives, Russell explains that a friend and colleague, Judge Dee Ren Jie, has been mistakenly arrested with a group of Chinese agitators. Russell is afraid that if Dee’s identity is discovered by Metropolitan Police inspector William Bard, whom Dee encountered during their shared service during WWI, the end result could be hazardous for Dee, so Russell enlists Lao in a plan to extract Dee from jail. While the plan isn’t executed as flawlessly as Russell hoped, Dee is freed. Now he... Read Full Review
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The Lost Story
by Shaffer, Meg
November 5, 2024
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Fifteen years ago, Jeremy and Ralph disappeared while on an end of the school year field trip to Red Crow State Forest in West Virginia. One moment, they were there, and then they were gone. The forest was repeatedly searched, but no signs of the boys were ever found. And then, six months later, they were discovered walking out of the forest by a pair of hikers. Ralph had been badly hurt, and Jeremy was carrying him. Medical treatment was summoned, and both boys were hospitalized and examined. Jeremy was in perfect health. Ralph had a series of long-healed scars on his back. Both boys claimed... Read Full Review
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Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out
by Love, Ryan
October 29, 2024
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Arthur Edwards has lived his entire life in the small town of Northbridge in northern England. He grew up there. And he met and married his wife, Madeleine, in Northbridge. Northbridge is where Madeleine and he raised their two children, Elizabeth and Patrick. As with most small towns, regardless of where they are located, everyone seems to know everyone else. An individual who wishes to maintain a sense of privacy about their lives must be vigilant to keep that which they don't want to become common knowledge from becoming just that.Arthur has a secret. He's worked diligently to keep it a... Read Full Review
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Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch
by Hughes, Emily C.
October 3, 2024
Call Number: 791.9 H8932
Horror. Some people love it! Some people don't! And, generally speaking, people tend to have strong feelings about the genre, falling into one camp or the other. In a bit of irony, there are people who are 'afraid' of Horror as a genre. Yep, they are afraid of the genre people seek out purposefully to cause them to feel fear. Within this group of people, there are those who are afraid of Horror but are also curious. They wonder why others enjoy the idea of feeling scared or disturbed, and they may be ready to take the plunge and begin to explore. It is for this group of people, possibly... Read Full Review
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Star Struck
by McCown, Marjorie
September 3, 2024
Call Number: M
When readers left Joey Jessup at the end of Marjorie McCown’s Final Cut, she had discovered the identity of the murderer who had killed Assistant Director Courtney Lisle on the set of a big-budget superhero movie. She had survived an attempt on her own life when the murderer had set ablaze Left Coast Costume, destroying the iconic Hollywood business, and was lying low for a while, doing her best to recover from the trauma.Now Joey is back at work on a glamorous period piece that will recreate... Read Full Review
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
by Clark, P. Djèlí
July 30, 2024
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Eveen is a professional killer. The emphasis on that statement should be placed on "professional." She is a reanimated killer, wiped of her memories and in service to the Matron of Assassins that made her second chance at "life" possible. She is efficient, discreet, and willing to dispatch (the term she prefers is "shipped") to whoever is contracted. She follows the three unbreakable tenets of her profession:The contract must be just.The only person that she can kill is the contracted. There can be NO collateral damage.Once you accept an assignment, it must be carried out.To break any of... Read Full Review
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The Twilight Garden
by Adams, Sara Nisha
June 3, 2024
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There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a garden, which is increasingly becoming a point of contention between the two new neighbors. Just another bullet point on a growing list of grievances each has about the other.One afternoon, Lewis finds an envelope in his mail. It is addressed to “the Young Man at Number 79” and it is filled with... Read Full Review
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
by Westerbeke, Douglas
May 28, 2024
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Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into the well, which they believe will ensure their wishes will be granted. The first two make their wishes (a stop to the bombing of public buildings and that Dr. Homais will find a cure for syphilis) and their sacrifices (a gold chain and a favorite doll, respectively). When it comes to Aubry, the youngest, her wish is that a... Read Full Review
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
by Perrin, Kristen
May 20, 2024
Call Number: M
Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best, and communication about her from her mother or grandparents has been equally limited. What Annie knows is this: Great Aunt Frances had her fortune told at a carnival when she was 16 years old. That fortune predicted that she was going to be murdered. That fortune so shook teenage Frances that she... Read Full Review
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Hendrix, Grady
April 17, 2024
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Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to have a lethal confrontation that results in the killer’s death (who regularly defies all reason by returning in the sequel). Final girls rarely appear consecutively in these films and are regularly replaced by new characters in subsequent installments, because the main focus for the films, and their franchises, is on the... Read Full Review
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Camp Damascus
by Tingle, Chuck
April 1, 2024
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Rose Darling is a high school senior who has lived her entire life in the small town of Neverton, Montana. She’s also grown up attending Kingdom of the Pine church with her parents. Kingdom of the Pine is a smaller church, compared to some others, but it has an international reputation for operating Camp Damascus, a gay conversion therapy operation with an astounding 100% success rate.As Rose has gotten older, she has experienced some things that have left her with questions. A lot of questions. Like the fact that when she spends time with some of her girl friends, she experiences bone... Read Full Review
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
by Khan, Shubnum
March 18, 2024
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Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment building will help both of them. The existing tenants, an eccentric group of older women, along with the landlord, a man known as Doctor, agree on very little, with one exception: the house is haunted.Sana is familiar with ghosts. She was born half of a pair of conjoined twins and has been haunted by the ghost of her twin... Read Full Review