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Book Ends
Thursday, February 20, 7:00 pm
Conference Room
Join us for a discussion of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (2017-Fiction) by Gail Honeyman (327 pages) Average rating 4.31/5 (488,450 ratings) on Goodreads. Meet Eleanor Oliphant, a socially awkward, routine-oriented loner to teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim. They forge a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. Charming and uplifting.Copies of the book will be distributed to attendees at the January discussion, and limited copies will be available at the Centerville Reference Desk after the discussion. Those needing special accommodations should contact the Library in advance at 433-8091.
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The Chill
by Scott Carson
The upstate New York village of Galesburg was drowned seventy-five years ago to create the Chilewaukee Reservoir, or The Chill. The survivors of the families that lived there carry a burden and have a mission. Gillian Mathers, a police officer that protects the reservoirs, is one of these survivors, and she recognizes the signs of danger when strange things begin to happen at the dam. Aaron Ellsworth is the local sheriff's son, who keeps getting himself into trouble. After being kicked out of the Navy, he lacks direction and tries to prove himself by going for a night swim in The Chill. When the man he accidentally kills walks back into the crime scene as if nothing happened, Aaron and Gillian are alerted that not all is right and Gillian is beginning to remember stories from her childhood that might explain what is happening. The citizens of Galesburg are fighting back. The tension of the novel is masterful with a conclusion that feels earned and reasonable as the past hauntingly plays with the present.
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The Boatman's Daughter: A Novel by Andy DavidsonEver since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child from harm. But dark forces are at work in the bayou, both human and supernatural, conspiring to disrupt the rhythms of Miranda’s peculiar and precarious life. And when the preacher makes an unthinkable demand, it sets Miranda on a desperate, dangerous path, forcing her to consider what she is willing to sacrifice to keep her loved ones safe. With the heady mythmaking of Neil Gaiman and the heartrending pacing of Joe Hill, Andy Davidson spins a thrilling tale of love and duty, of loss and discovery. The Boatman's Daughter is a gorgeous, horrifying novel, a journey into the dark corners of human nature, drawing our worst fears and temptations out into the light.
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| Chokehold by David MoodyA series of nuclear strikes has left huge swathes of the country uninhabitable. It's a level playing field now: both Hater and Unchanged alike have to fight to stay alive. Both have retreated to their camps to regroup, less than twenty miles away from each other. It's here that the last major battle of the final war will inevitably be fought, but neither side has any idea what's waiting for them just around the corner. Both armies are ready to fight to the death, each of their leaders hell-bent on victory. Their tactics are uniformly simple: strike first, get the enemy in a chokehold, then strangle the life out of them. |
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| The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire NorthSouth Africa, 1884. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William. William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and mountains. And if it catches him, the person he loves most in the world will die. By the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. |
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Stranger Things: The Other Side. #1 by Jody HouserThe hit Netflix series from the Duffer Brothers is now a spine-tingling comic that recounts Will Beyers' harrowing survival in the treacherous Upside Down! When Will Byers finds himself in the Upside Down, an impossible dark parody of his own world, he's understandably frightened. But that's nothing compared with the fear that takes hold when he realizes what's in that world with him!
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Coyotes by Sean Christopher LewisWomen are going missing in the City of Lost Girls, a border town in the desert. Officer Frank Coffey is trying to get to the bottom of this when he meets Red, a thirteen girl with a katana blade and a mission: murder the Werewolves stalking the border picking women off one by one. When it's discovered that the Wolves are the men of these villages, both Red and Officer Coffey are thrown together in a thriller of mythic proportions with the lives of their friends and loved ones in the balance.
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Cutter
by Robert Place Napton
What if that kid you and your friends picked on in your youth came back with a vengeance...to kill you and your friends? That dark guilt-ridden fear is at the core of CUTTER, a cautionary tale about the sins of your past coming back to haunt you. Jeremy lives a quiet life with his wife in a rural town. Successful and stable, Jeremy is the guy next door. But he and his high school friends share a dark secret. And when that secret literally comes back to haunt them, Jeremy must confront his past and his own sanity as he comes face to face with a vicious serial killer...
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| Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote; illustrated by Aaron Campbell; with José Villarrubia and Jeff PowellThe premise: After she moves into a new apartment, Muslim woman Aisha finds herself preyed upon by monstrous manifestations of her fellow tenants' xenophobia.
Art alert: The human characters are as realistic as the monstrous ones are twisted in this striking work NPR named one of their "100 Favorite Horror Stories of All Time."
Try this next: For another metaphor-rich graphic novel set in a haunted apartment building, check out Bttm Fdrs by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Centerville Library 111 W. Spring Valley Rd. Centerville, OH 45458 (937) 433-8091
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Woodbourne Library 6060 Far Hills Avenue Centerville, OH 45459 (937) 435-3700
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