Category: Fiction
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Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2014 Synopsis: Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking. To unravel the mystery,…
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My Dark Vanessa By Kate Elizabeth Russell: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2020 Synopsis: 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of…
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All That It Takes by Nicole Deese: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2022 Synopsis: When the ever-cautious Val Locklier moves cross-country with her son for a secure job, everything she’d planned unravels within the first week. After Val reluctantly agrees to rent an apartment from her best friend’s brother, an unexpected chance at an elite filmmakers’ mentorship ignites fresh…
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The Man on the Buckskin Horse by Rachel Kovaciny: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2024 Synopsis: As the local midwife and sole medical professional in her Nebraska community, Miss Emma always wants to help. When she learns the Owens family’s bitter enemy has hired a gunman to force them from their home, she rushes to the Owens homestead to warn them.…
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A Ghost of Caribou by Alice Henderson: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Nov 2022 Synopsis: When a remote camera on a large, rugged expanse held by the Land Trust for Wildlife Conservation picks up a blurry image of what could be a mountain caribou, they contact Alex Carter to investigate. After all, mountain caribou went extinct in the contiguous U.S.…
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A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1886 Synopsis: The story of respectable Dr Jekyll’s strange association with ‘damnable young man’ Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde’s true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity’s basest capacity for evil. What To Expect: Readers can…
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He Should Have Told the Bees by Amanda Cox: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Aug 2003 Synopsis: Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business–one who is looking to sell the…
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The Queen and the Cure by Amy Harmon: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2017 Synopsis: Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He’d never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him. But there…
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The Bird and the Sword by Amy Harmon: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2016 Synopsis: The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a…
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A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2020 Synopsis: While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by…
