In this Southern-inspired supernatural thriller set in the 1990s, Dracula and Fried Green Tomatoes collide with Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes as a women’s book club fights to save their suburban community from a strange and attractive stranger who turns out to be a bloodsucking demon.
Patricia Campbell always envisioned a large life, but after giving up her nursing job to wedding a successful doctor and have children, Patricia’s life has never felt smaller. Her to-do list is never truly completed, her kids are ungrateful, her spouse is distant, and the days are long. Her book club, which consists of a group of Charleston mothers who are solely connected by their love of true-crime and suspenseful fiction, is the one item she has to look forward to. The FBI’s recent siege of Waco is more likely to come up in these discussions than the ups and downs of marriage and parenting.
However, when a creative and compassionate stranger moves into the area, rumors about the newcomer start to circulate at book club meetings. Although Patricia is initially drawn to him, she begins to suspect the newcomer of being involved when other neighborhood kids go missing. She starts her own inquiry, presuming he is a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. The information she finds is even scarier, and soon she and her book club are the only ones standing between the community’s unknowing residents and the monster they’ve let into their homes.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
“He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
“Think of us what you will,” she thought, “we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went the distance.”
“Being a teenager isn’t a number, ” Maryellen said. “It’s the age when you stop liking them.”
“I am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”
The Oprah Book Club selection and number one New York Times bestseller American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, which has sold over two million copies, is now available in paperback. Living in Acapulco is Lydia. She is married to a lovely journalist and has a son named Luca who is her life’s love. Despite the fact that Acapulco is starting to exhibit signs of instability due to the cartels, Lydia’s life is often not too uncomfortable. But none of their lives will be the same again after her husband’s candid biography of the newest drug lord is published.
When forced to run, Lydia and Luca end up joining the numerous individuals making the journey to America. Lydia quickly realizes that everyone is evading something. But where are they really racing to?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn’t even want them.”
“Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can’t trust a librarian, who can you trust?”
“Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication.”
“So Lydia is worried about all these things, and yet, she has a new understanding about the futility of worry. The worst will either happen or not happen, and there’s no worry that will make a difference in either direction. Don’t think.”
“He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.”
Sharon Bolton is back in ‘The Split’, an exciting new solo thriller about just a woman on the run that is tense, riveting, and has a surprise you won’t see coming.
The last boat of the summer is ready to leave the isolated Antarctic island of South Georgia, signaling safety to the local glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity often worries that her ex-husband Freddie will locate her, even in this remote location. She got a job on this remote island to avoid him, but now that he’s out after serving a murder conviction sentence, she knows he won’t stop looking for her.
However, a doctor at Cambridge who is looking into the history of Felicity and Freddie’s relationship discovers that Felicity has been on edge for a very long time. The only method he can think of to assist her is to leave for South Georgia himself in an effort to reach her first.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you…”
When Libby Day’s evidence led to the imprisonment of her fifteen-year-old brother, she was only seven years old. She has been idling ever since. Libby begins to pose questions she had never ventured to before after being contacted by a group that believes Ben is innocent. Did she recognize her brother’s voice? Although Ben was an outcast in their little town, was he murderous in nature? At the family property, are there mysteries to be discovered, or is Libby just thinking things up because she needs her brother back?
She begins to believe everybody in her family—especially Ben—had something to conceal that day. Now, twenty-four years later, it will be much more difficult to uncover the truth. Who shot the Day family to death?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.”
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty – we all have it.”
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn’t so”
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don’t even ripple.”
Shannon Moss works with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s covert section. She is given the task of finding the missing teenage daughter of a Navy SEAL and solving the murder of his family in 1997 in western Pennsylvania. Moss learns that the missing SEAL was an astronaut onboard the spacecraft U.S.S. Libra, which was thought to have been lost to the Deep Time currents, but she is unable to alert conventional law enforcement of this information. Moss, who has personal experience with the psychological anguish of time travel, thinks that the SEALs’ encounter with the future is what has caused this brutality.
Moss travels across time to investigate potential futures in search of evidence to solve the current case. Moss is driven by her desire to discover the missing girl and a frightening link from her own history. To her dismay, the future reveals that not only the destiny of a family depends on her efforts, as she sees the Terminus—the frightening and cataclysmic end of humanity—rising over time’s horizon and speeding toward the present.
The Gone World is brilliant and unnerving; but, at its core, it is a story that is profoundly human.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires.”
“The totality of human endeavour is nothing when set against the stars.”
“It used to be thought that hell was a lack of God, but hell is a lack of death.”
“Nothing blinks out, nothing ends. Everything exists, always exists. Life is but a dream, Shannon. Self is the only illusion.”
“Lambs are sacrificed but rats survive.”
A couple takes a private aircraft early in the morning in November with a destination of Geneva and flies into a storm. It just disappears from view shortly after that, and its debris is eventually found in the Alps. Matthew Werner, a financial insider at the significant offshore bank Swiss United, is one of the missing. Young widow Annabel, who discovered an encrypted laptop and a dubious client list, is left to deal with the mysteries he left behind. She realizes that Matthew’s death was not an accident and that she is now in the sights of his formidable foes as she starts a desperate search for answers.
Ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has at last reached the pinnacle. She will cease writing about wealthy families now that she is married to Grant Ellis and will actually belong to one. Although her ascent to the top of New York’s social scene is more alluring than any article could ever be, she decides to look into one more tale after the passing of her mentor. A few men who are too close to home are among the most influential men in the finance industry who are implicated in information Marina finds while investigating Swiss United. If Marina decides to publish the narrative, it might also include the solution to Annabel’s tragic search.
An ex-agent on the road from her former employers must take one more case in this riveting page-turner if she wants to clear her name and save her life. Few people were aware that she once worked for the American government. She was a specialist in her profession and one of the most closely guarded secrets of a secretive organization that doesn’t even have a name. And when they came for her without warning after deciding she was a liability.
She no longer regularly uses the same name or residence for an extended period of time. Even though they killed the only other person she could have trusted, she is still concerned about something. They want her to die quickly. She thinks it’s her only chance to remove the massive bullseye on her back when her former handler gives her a way out. But it requires accepting one final position with her former bosses. To her horror, the knowledge she gathers only makes things riskier for her.
She prepares for the hardest struggle of her life, determined to face the threat head-on, but finds herself falling for a guy who will only make it more difficult for her to survive. She must use her special powers in ways she never imagined as her options are quickly narrowed down.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You’ll make mistakes because it’s impossible to know what is or isn’t a mistake until it’s made.”
“Sometimes you cling to a mistake simply because it took so long to make.”
“I’ve never been drawn to someone the way I am to you, and I have been from the very first moment I met you. It’s like the difference between…between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.”
“Dishonest people don’t believe honest people exist.”
Walter Sparrow gets an antique book named “The Number 23” for his birthday. He begins to think that the book is based on his life. Walter begins to act like the main character, Fingerling, as his preoccupation with attempting to figure out the mysterious number 23 grows. Walter gradually learns the truth about “The number 23” with the aid of his family.
From the creator of the best-selling Wayward Pines trilogy comes a mind-bending, never-ending astonishing thriller. Jason Dessen is looking forward to a calm evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their kid, Charlie, when his reality is shattered as he makes his way home through the frigid streets of Chicago.
“Are you happy with your life?”
Before the masked kidnapper knocks Jason Dessen out, he hears those last words. Before he wakes up and discovers himself strapped on a gurney with strangers in hazmat suits all around him. Before a man Jason has never met greets him with a smile and the words “Welcome back, my friend,” Jason’s life is not what it was in the world he awoke to. He does not have a wife.
He never had a son. And Jason is a recognized genius who has accomplished something truly exceptional, not just an ordinary college physics professor. something not attainable. Is the dream of this world or another one? And even if the house he recalls is true, how on earth can Jason return to the people he loves? The answers are found on a journey that is both wondrous and scary beyond anything he could have ever imagined. On this adventure, he will be forced to face his greatest self-doubts as well as a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable antagonist.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We’re more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
“It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.”
“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
“As long as I’m with you, I know exactly who I am.”
The truth is that Aven Green was born without arms, despite how much she enjoys telling people she lost them in an alligator wrestling fight or a wildfire in Tanzania. Aven moves across the country with her parents when they accept a position managing Stagecoach Pass, a dilapidated western theme park in Arizona, knowing that she will be asked the same question repeatedly.
When she unites with Connor, a classmate who also feels alienated due to his own disability, and they learn of a room at Stagecoach Pass that contains more mysteries than Aven could have ever imagined, her new life takes an unexpected turn. To resolve a mystery, assist a buddy, and confront your deepest fears are difficult tasks. Aven is soon to realize that, even without arms, she is capable of doing it all.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I felt like I was shining, and this time I thought maybe it wasn’t just the moon. Maybe the light was in me.”
“The only person I know who can pick their nose with their toes is Aven. She sure is a special little girl.”
“Mom likes to take me grocery shopping with her. She says it’s because I need to learn how to grocery shop on my own, but I really think it’s because she likes having a child slave to command.”
“all, there was a lot I needed to do with my life. I had places to see, things to try, new friends to meet. And light to shine.”
“I think Connor would be the last person to label you like that. You shouldn’t get so offended if someone calls you disabled, Aven. You DO have extra challenges that others don’t have. It DOES take you longer to do most tasks. Your movements ARE limited. There’s a big difference between saying you’re disabled and saying you’re incapable.”
The best novel about a troubled family in crisis has been written by award-winning author William Landay. It is a gripping, character-driven mystery that also tells a riveting story about guilt, treachery, and the horrifying speed at which life can spiral out of control.
For more than twenty years, Andy Barber has served as an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county. He enjoys spending time at home with his wife Laurie and son Jacob. He is well-liked in his town. However, Andy is taken by surprise when a startling crime rocked their New England community and his fourteen-year-old son was accused of killing a classmate.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents’ children and we become our children’s parents instead.”
“The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.”
“An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion – you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.”
“Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you”
“Predisposition is not predestination.”
All that is required is a quick DNA test. With just a brief mouth swab, you can be genetically matched with the ideal companion in no time. Match Your DNA makes that commitment. The business claimed to have discovered the gene that matches each of us with our soul mate ten years ago. Since then, millions of individuals have been linked globally. However, the discovery has some drawbacks: test results have destroyed numerous relationships and challenged conventional notions of dating, romance, and love.
Five very different persons have now each received a “Matched” notification. Each of them is about to find their true love. But not everyone gets to live happily ever after because secrets exist even amongst soulmates. Additionally, some are more stunning than others… The One is a fascinating book that demonstrates how even the most straightforward findings can have complex repercussions. It was a word-of-mouth sensation in the UK.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.”
“Maybe when you took it back to basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.”
“There were others out there like him, which meant that Christopher was normal, just a different type of normal.”
“I also wanted to demonstrate how greedy we are as human beings. How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”
“It’d be like suing gun manufacturers on behalf of anyone who’s ever been shot. It’s not the fault of the weapon, it’s the user.”
Le Sommet has long been a dark spot, partially concealed by woodland and shrouded by menacing peaks. The previously abandoned sanatorium has recently been transformed into a five-star minimalist hotel, ending years of troublesome rumors.
The last place Elin Warner wishes to be is a towering, remote retreat in the Swiss Alps. However, Elin has taken a break from her work as a detective, so she really has no excuse not to accept her estranged brother Isaac’s and his fiancée Laure’s invitation to commemorate their engagement at the hotel.
Elin arrives in the middle of a potentially dangerous storm and immediately feels uneasy; there’s something about the motel that worries her. Laure is missing when they wake up the next morning, so Elin needs to trust her gut if they want to find her. The more time Laure is missing, the more anxious the other guests become because the storm has cut off all access to the hotel. Elin is under pressure to locate Laure, but nobody is aware that a second woman has vanished. She is also the only one who might have foreseen the peril that they are all in.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Grief is like a series of bombs exploding, one after another. Every hour, a new detonation. Shock after shock after shock.”
“Il faut bonne mémoire après qu’on a menti’
A liar should have a good memory.”
“She’s forgotten how easy it is to lose track of someone; the sum of their parts.”
“Seeing yourself like that, shadowy, distorted, it’s like looking into the darkest parts of your soul.”
“Anger is often unpredictable, a barrier to keeping things in check.”
A murder mystery with the Long Island setting of a prestigious prep school. Everything on Gold Coast, Long Island, including the upscale downtown shops, the well-kept beaches, and Jill Newman and her friends’ perfectly pressed uniforms, looks flawless. But nothing is as it seems, as Jill discovered three years ago.
Shaila Arnold, a clever and captivating friend of Jill’s from her freshman year, was murdered by her boyfriend. Graham confessed after that gloomy night on the beach, the case was resolved, and Jill tried to go on. Jill is currently in her senior year and she plans to make it the finest one yet. She is a senior and a Player, a member of the exclusive, not-so-hidden secret society at Gold Coast Prep.
Senior Players are the most popular in the school, attend the finest events, and earn the highest grades. Jill’s year is going to be this one. She is certain of it. But Jill’s hopes for the ideal senior year begin to fade as she begins to receive texts announcing Graham’s innocence. Who killed Shaila if Graham didn’t? Jill swears to find out, but going further could endanger her relationships and her future.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes it’s hard to know which qualities really define you, and which ones have been affixed to you by others so many times that you actually begin to believe them and claim them as your own.”
“Why did the boys have the power? Why did they make the rules while we dealt with the consequences?”
“It’s easy to convince yourself of something if you just pretend it’s the truth.”
“Their conversation continued as they debated the merits of Mario’s and Luigi’s, the two competing slice spots in town.”
“How can something so violent be my home.”
A lovely garden is located close to a remote mansion. This garden is home to lush flowers and shady trees. As well as a group of priceless “butterflies,” young girls who have been abducted and beautifully tattooed to match their namesake. The Gardener, a cruel, depraved man who is obsessed with collecting and keeping his beautiful specimens, is in charge of everything.
One of the survivors is brought in for interrogation once the garden is found. One of the most nauseating cases of FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison’s careers must be pieced together. However, the unnamed girl, Maya, turns out to be a mystery in and of herself. Maya exposes ancient resentments, new saviors, and horrifying tales of a man who would do anything to hold beauty hostage as her story swings and turns, gradually illuminating life in the Butterfly Garden. But as she divulges more, the agents are left to wonder what more she might be keeping secret.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
“I think a trauma doesn’t stop just because you’ve been rescued.”
“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact.”
“Beauty loses its meaning when you’re surrounded by too much of it.”
“My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now.”
Daunis Fontaine, who is biracial, not enrolled in the tribe, and the subject of a scandal, has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis puts her goals on waiting to care for her frail mother when tragedy strikes her family. Meeting Jamie, the charming new player on her brother’s hockey team, is one positive development.
Daunis decides to go undercover after witnessing a shocking murder that draws her into a police investigation. However, the lies—and fatalities—keep coming, and eventually, the threat comes too close to home. Will she go to any lengths to safeguard her village, even if it means shattering the only world she has ever known?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Inaction is a powerful choice”
“We love imperfect people. We can love them and not condone their actions and beliefs.”
“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present. It’s even worse when you’re angry at the person. Not just for dying. But for how.”
“Kindness is something that seems small, Daunis, but it’s like tossing a pebble into a pond and the ripples reach further than you thought.”
“When our loved ones die, the love stays alive in the present.”
Missy, the youngest daughter of Mackenzie Allen Philips, is kidnapped while on a family vacation, and evidence suggesting that she may have been brutally killed is discovered in an abandoned shack in the middle of the Oregon woods. Mack receives a strange note urging him back to that cabin for a weekend four years later while he is experiencing his Great Sadness. The note seems to have come from God. On a winter afternoon, against his better judgment, he makes his way to the hut and enters his worst nightmare. The things he discovers there will alter Mack’s life forever.
The answers Mack receives to the age-old question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unfathomable pain?” will astonish you and possibly transform you as much as it did him in a time when religion seems to become less and less relevant. You’ll want to recommend this book to everyone you know!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
“Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.”
“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”
It can be difficult to work at a retail job in a remote, dead-end location. The lengthy hours, the defenseless clients. The monstrous eldritch horror lurking beneath the structure… Jack works as the sole full-time employee at the 24-hour gas station on the outskirts of town, and he has essentially seen it all. But when he makes the decision to start an online blog to record the strange things that happen on a daily basis, he unintentionally draws the attention of a lot more conspiracy theorists than just a handful. Jack will exert every effort to remain out of the way and mind his own business despite the fact that the death toll is constantly rising and that everyone around him is experiencing the effects of a dark, ancient force in their dreams.
He is only a gas station employee, after all. It’s not like he’s getting paid enough to fight the nightmare aberrations that plague his neighborhood. Additionally, he is already working hard to control the mystifying lawn gnomes, mutant raccoons, and the endearing phantom cowboy who resides in the restroom. Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One is a love letter to the forefathers of classic horror written for a generation that grew up in the era of cell phones and WiFi. It is based on the award-winning creepypasta by GasStationJack.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“the smoke detector may or may not be an old frisbee.”
“Hey, I have a question for you.” “Yes, there’s a weed in the tea.” “No, I already knew that. I had a question about the internet.”
“If the gas station were a planet, it would be Pluto. If the gas station were a vowel, it would be Y. If the gas station were an X-Man, it would be Wolverine.”
“gas station had already cut so many corners on safety that it was practically a circle,”
“All the roads are covered in trees. But they aren’t, you know, fallen. The trees are growing in the middle of the street. Cracking right up through the pavement.”
In opulent Edwardian London, Ramses the Great has awoken once more. He became Ramses the Damned after consuming the elixir of life, destined to wander the earth forever while frantically trying to sate his unquenchable hunger. He becomes good friends with Julie Stratford, a wealthy heiress, but his cursed past drives him once more down the wrong path. Searing memories of his previous reawakening, which was ordered by his favorite Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, to torture him. And his unwavering love for her over the ages will drive him to do something that will put everyone around him in great peril.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Be Warned: I sleep as the earth sleeps beneath the night sky or the winter’s snow; and once awakened, I am servant to no man.”
“Grief, she thought. It’s a strange and a misunderstood emotion.”
“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine”
“This was that lucid and dangerous state with drinking, when everything began to shimmer; when there was meaning in the grain of the marble; when one could make the most offensive speeches.”
“When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true desires—what we would have when that which we do have so sorely disappoints us”
Devin Jones, a college student, decided to work at Joyland for the summer in the hopes of forgetting the girl who broke his heart. But he ultimately had to deal with many worse things, such as the consequences of a savage murder, the fate of a dying kid, and unsettling facts about life and death that would alter his perspective on the world forever.
A compelling tale about both love and loss, about maturing up and getting older, and about those who aren’t able to experience any of those things because they pass away before their time. It is a mystery, a horror story, and a sad coming-of-age novel all rolled into one, and it will pull even the most jaded reader to tears.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re fucking lost.”
“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
“I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world.”
“Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.”
A weird laboratory. A nefarious scientist. A hidden past. If you believe you know what happened to Eleven’s mother, get ready to have your world flipped around in this fascinating prequel to the smash program Stranger Things. It’s the summer of 1969, and the shock of war reverberates through America’s young, both at home and abroad. Terry Ives, a student at a tranquil college campus in Indiana’s heartland, couldn’t be further from the front lines of Vietnam or the explosive rallies in Washington. But the world is shifting and Terry isn’t willing to stand by and observe.
When word spreads of an important federal experiment in Hawkins, she agrees to be a test subject for the study, called MKUltra. Unmarked vans, an isolated lab in the woods, mind-altering chemicals supplied by tight-lipped researchers… and a mystery that Terry, the young and restless protagonist, is desperate to solve.
But a deeper plot lurks behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory—and the penetrating gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner. To face it, she’ll need the assistance of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious that the world is unaware she exists—a little girl with unexplained, superhuman abilities and a number instead of a name: 008.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Monsters,’ she said., ‘of course my brain has them.’ As long as they stayed in there, everything would be all right. Wouldn’t it?”
“When it’s our government involved, I think you’ll find our rights are often to be determined.”
“Knees were an unpleasant place to have the nervous sweats.”
“Men. Even the good ones make life difficult.”
“What people believed didn’t matter. The truth did.”
Mark Stone is on the phone with a friend when he is shocked by a chorus of strange screaming. A horrible accident takes his friend’s life seconds later. When this occurs multiple times in a row—screams followed by an early death—he feels forced to act.
Mark embarks on a mission to figure out what is behind the screams and possibly prevent death from calling on its next victim, despite his failure as a husband and his own wounded faith. When his estranged wife is abducted and he hears her screams from her cell phone, his hunt becomes more personal and urgent.
Iain Reid delves into the depths of the human psyche in this brilliant and dramatic literary suspense book, examining consciousness, free choice, the value of relationships, terror, and the constraints of solitude. “Your dread and unease will rise with every passing page” (Entertainment Weekly) of this edgy, disturbing debut, reminiscent of Jose Saramago’s early work, Michel Faber’s cult masterpiece Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin. I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a tense, riveting, and atmospheric novel that draws you in from the first page…and never lets you go.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”
“Just tell your story. Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. So just keep going.”
“For years, my life has been flat. I’m not sure how else to describe it. I’ve never admitted it before. I’m not depressed, I don’t think. That’s not what I’m saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It’s been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.”
“We’re never inside someone else’s head. We can never really know someone else’s thoughts. And it’s thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.”
“I think a lot of what we learn about others isn’t what they tell us. It’s what we observe. People can tell us anything they want.”
In this chilling tale of love and betrayal, naivety and treachery, and the smothering force of parental love, Dollanganger series author V.C. Andrews has developed an intriguing new group of characters. To be just as good as her sister, Audrina Adare aspired. She was aware that her father also couldn’t love her as much as he did her sister. Her sibling was very unique and perfect, yet she passed away. She will now have to confront the perilous, scary secret that everyone is aware of. everybody but…
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
“All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain because nobody knew about it but you.”
“There were shadows in the corners and whispers on the stairs and time was irrelevant as honesty.”
“Blood ties are not supposed to be chains.”
“Shadows in the house put shadows in the mind.”
Amelia Bedelia follows every instruction given to her by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, even dressing the chicken and dusting the furniture. However, nothing ever quite works out as planned.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Oh, Amelia Bedelia, your first day of work, and I can’t be here. But I made an alist for you. You do just what the list says,”
“She was very angry. She opened her mouth. Mrs. Rogers meant to tell Amelia Bedelia she was fired. But before she could get the words out, Mr. Rogers put something in her mouth. ”
“Such a grand house. These must be rich folks. But I must get to work. Here I stand just looking. And me with a whole list of things to do. I think I’ll make a surprise for them. I’ll make lemon meringue pie. I do make good pies.”
“Now i must dress the chicken. I wonder if she wants the chicken or the chicken?”
“Mrs. Rogers learned to say unjust the furniture, sunlight the lights, and close the drapes, and things like that. ”
A young woman has whisked away to a house on top of a mountain of blood-red clay when her heart is captivated by a beguiling stranger. This is a place full of mysteries that will torment her forever.
The truth about Crimson Peak lies between desire and evil, between mystery and madness. from the renowned filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“…perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them…”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak
“None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak
“Well, I like him. There’s a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?”
She shrugged. “It’s entirely up to him.”
“What do you mean?” He smiled quizzically at her.
“Characters talk to you. Transform. Make choices,” she replied.
“Choices,” he echoed.
“Of who they become.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak
“The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon.
It watched approvingly, appreciating the complexities—and fragilities—of life.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak
“She needed sunshine and clean air, not rot and decay and breezes that smelled of clay.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak
Noem Taboada travels to High Place, a remote house in the Mexican countryside, after receiving a desperate letter from her recently married cousin pleading for help to save her from an unknown fate. She is unsure of what she will discover because Noem knows little about the area and her cousin’s husband, a charming Englishman, is a stranger.
The gorgeous debutante Noem is another unlikely hero; her elegant clothes and flawless red lipstick are more appropriate for cocktail parties than for an amateur detective. She is fearless, yet she is also strong, intelligent, and willpower: Not even in the house, which starts to haunt Noem’s dreams with sights of blood and doom. Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both scary and intriguing; not of his father, the old patriarch who seems to be charmed by Noem; and not even of her cousin.
The family’s youngest kid is her lone ally in this hostile home. He is quiet and kind, and he appears to want to help Noem, but he could possibly be concealing sinister information about his family’s past. Because the High Place’s walls conceal a wealth of information. The family was shielded from prying eyes by their opulent wealth and defunct mining company, but when Noem looks further, she discovers tales of brutality and madness. And because Noem is so enthralled by the horrifying yet alluring environment of High Place, it might eventually be difficult for her to ever leave this mysterious home.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Books, moonlight, melodrama.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
“A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
“The world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination, and endless devouring.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
“It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
“…she was trapped between competing desires, a desire for a more meaningful connection, and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
Something Wicked This Way Comes, one of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most widely read books, now has a new preface and information about its extensive cultural and genre impact.
Step inside for those who still have dreams and memories and for those who haven’t yet felt the captivating power of its dark poetry. The program is about to start. Every life touched by Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show will be destroyed when it arrives in Green Town, Illinois. A little after midnight, the carnival arrives, bringing a week early Halloween. All are drawn in by the enticing prospect of fantasies and youth reclaimed by the harsh siren voice of the calliope.
Two buddies who will soon be all too aware of the high price of wishes will learn the truth behind its smoke, mazes, and mirrors from two boys. that conjures up nightmares. The literary masterwork Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury has lasted in the mind and heart like few other books have. It is a timeless masterpiece in the American canon, one that is spooky and thrilling.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Death doesn’t exist. It never did, and it never will. But we’ve drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we’ve got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, darkness. Nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawns just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slowly. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had the strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot’s face. It’s a long way back to the sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead – And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time…”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Hundreds of unemployed men and women queue up in the early hours of the morning in a struggling American city to enter a job fair. They are drained, chilly, and in need. A lone driver in a stolen Mercedes speeds through the crowd after emerging from the fog, invisible until it’s too late. The driver runs over innocent people before reversing and accelerating again. There are eight fatalities and fifteen injuries. The murderer gets away.
Bill Hodges, an ex-cop who is still troubled by the unsolved crime, muses of suicide months later. Hodges awakens from his miserable and empty retirement when he receives a crazy letter from “the perk” accusing him of being responsible for the deaths. He is determined to stop the attack and fears an even more evil one.
Brady Hartfield resides in the home where he was born with his alcoholic mother. He cherished the sensation of death beneath Mercedes’s wheels, and he longs for that rush once more. Only Bill Hodges, together with a few oddball and mismatched pals, can catch the murderer before he commits another crime. They also have no time to waste because Brady’s upcoming mission, if it succeeds, would result in thousands of deaths or injuries.
With his horrifying and unforgettable glimpse into the mind of this driven, deranged killer, the master of suspense presents Mr. Mercedes as a battle between good and evil.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
“Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”
A terrible crime. An unclear investigation. King has written one of his most frightening and compulsively readable stories at a time when his brand has never been stronger.
The dismembered body of an eleven-year-old kid is discovered in a town park. Fingerprints and eyewitness account definitely identify one of Flint City’s most well-liked residents. Terry Maitland is a spouse, father of two kids, Little League coach, English teacher, and English teacher. Maitland previously coached Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son made the arrest. Maitland has a plausible explanation, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to the fingerprints, witnesses, and other available proof. Their argument looks unbeatable. King’s compelling narrative picks up speed as the investigation deepens and frightening revelations start to surface, creating intense tension and nearly intolerable suspense. Although Terry Maitland appears like a kind guy, is there another side to him? You’ll be shocked by the response in the way that only Stephen King can.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you can’t let go of the past, the mistakes you’ve made will eat you alive.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider
“Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end. We did fall through, but we helped each other out. We’re still helping each other.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider
“People had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider
“People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider
“Dreams are the way we touch the unseen world,”
― Stephen King, The Outsider
A man-eating terror classic that inspired a Steven Spielberg film and terrified millions of beachgoers into staying out of the water. Relive the thrill of utter helplessness—or experience it for the first time!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”
“There’s nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That’s their instinct. But this fish doesn’t run from anything. He doesn’t fear.”
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…”
“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.”
“The great fish moved silently through the night water.”
For many years, Area X was cut off from the outside world. The final remains of human civilization have been reclaimed by nature. The first expedition reported a pure, Edenic landscape; the second resulted in mass suicide, and the third ended in a hail of gunfire as its participants turned on one another. The eleventh expedition’s participants responded as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, every single one of them had passed away from cancer. We join the twelfth expedition in Annihilation, the first book in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy.
Four women make up the group: our narrator, a biologist; an anthropologist; a surveyor; and the psychologist who serves as de facto leader. Their goals are to map the area, keep a journal of all they see about one another and their surroundings, and, most importantly, stay out of Area X itself. They expect the unexpected when they arrive, and Area X does not disappoint. However, the shocks they brought with them and the mysteries the voyage members are holding from one another are what ultimately changes everything.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
“That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
“Silence creates its own violence.”
“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”
Ali, age 13, discovers a strange picture in the attic just before summer officially starts. She is aware that it contains her mother Claire and her aunt Dulcie’s two children. But who is the third individual, the one who has been erased from the scene?
While on vacation in Maine with Dulcie and Emma, 4, in the home where Ali’s mother’s family used to spend the summer, Ali assumes she’ll learn the truth. Thoughts of leisure are quickly dashed when the girls encounter Sissy, an ugly and spiteful youngster who has a negative impression of Emma.
The strangest part is that Sissy constantly brings up Teresa, a young girl who drowned in odd circumstances when Claire and Dulcie were children and whose body was never discovered. Ali initially believes Sissy is merely making up a ghost story to terrify her, but she quickly learns the real cause behind Sissy’s irrational anger. In this brand-new spooky story that is destined to send chills down her readers’ spines, Mary Downing Hahn is at her most menacing.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS”
“To everyone who enjoys ghost stories”
“Sissy tilted her chair back so far I was sure she’d fall on her head any second. Not that I cared. Maybe she’d leave if she hurt herself.”
“The bones came out, the bones came out, the bones came out.”
“Sometimes nothing is the scariest thing of all,”
Intruders discreetly murder Luke Ellis’s parents in the middle of the night in a home on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis before putting him in a black SUV. Less than two minutes are needed for the procedure. Luke will awaken at The Institute in a room that is virtually identical to his own, save for the absence of a window. Other children with exceptional abilities—telekinesis and telepathy—who arrived at this location similarly to Luke can be found behind other doors outside of his door, including Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. Everybody is in the front half. Luke discovers that some people advanced to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” as Kalisha puts it. You don’t check out; you just check-in.
The director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are brutally committed to drawing out of these kids the power of their extraordinary abilities in this most evil of institutions. This place has no morals. You receive tokens for the vending machines if you comply. If you don’t, the penalty is severe. Luke grows more and more frantic to leave and obtain assistance as each fresh victim vanishes into Back Half. However, nobody has ever managed to leave the Institute.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Great events turn on small hinges.”
“He wanted to tell Luke that he loved him. But there were no words, and maybe no need of them. Or telepathy. Sometimes a hug was telepathy.”
“this life we think we’re living isn’t real. It’s just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark, all the shadows disappear.”
“Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.”
“It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.”
Three shots were fired in Dallas on November 22, 1963, killing President Kennedy and altering the course of history. What if you could reverse the change? A man goes back in time to thwart the JFK assassination in Stephen King’s new, heart-stoppingly dramatic novel, which is a thousand-page masterpiece. Following the phenomenal success of Under the Dome, King transports readers to another instance—a period in actual history—when everything goes awry: the JFK assassination. Additionally, he provides an introduction to a figure with the ability to alter the course of history.
Jake Epping, a 35-year-old English teacher at Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, also works as a GED instructor for adults. One of the students gives him an essay, a grisly, terrifying account of the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father returned home and murdered his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry survived with a broken leg, as was evident from his awkward gait. The owner of the neighborhood diner, Jake’s friend Al, reveals a secret shortly after that: his cellar is a doorway to 1958. In an insane—and absurdly possible—mission to try to stop the Kennedy assassination, he enlists Jake. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, a life that defies all the laws of time and is filled with Elvis and JFK, big American cars and sock hops, a disturbed loner named Lee Harvey Oswald, and a stunning high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who ends up being Jake’s love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I’ll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it’s yours.”
“I’m one of those people who doesn’t really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”
“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
A shadowy laboratory, a malicious scientist, and a hidden past. In this gripping prequel to the popular television series Stranger Things, if you believe you know the real story behind Eleven’s mother, get ready to have your world turned inside out. The horror of war is still fresh in the minds of American youth both at home and abroad in the summer of 1969. Terry Ives is a student at a peaceful college in the middle of Indiana, far from the front lines of the Vietnam War and the explosive demonstrations in Washington.
But Terry isn’t willing to stand by and observe as the world changes. She agrees to be a test subject for the MKUltra project after hearing about an important government experiment in the little town of Hawkins. Unmarked vans, a secret laboratory tucked away in the woods, drugs that affect perception given by covert researchers, and a mystery Terry, a young and restless Terry, is anxious to solve.
But a conspiracy bigger than she could have ever imagined lies behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory—and the penetrating gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner. She’ll need the assistance of her fellow test subjects, including one so strange that no one is aware of her existence: a young woman with enigmatic superhuman abilities and a number instead of a name: 008. Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have started a fresh sort of war—one in which the human mind serves as the front line—amid the escalating tensions of the new decade.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Monsters,’ she said., ‘of course my brain has them.’ As long as they stayed in there, everything would be all right. Wouldn’t it?”
“When it’s our government involved, I think you’ll find our rights are often to be determined.”
“Knees were an unpleasant place to have the nervous sweats.”
“We can put a man on the moon, but they still haven’t figured out how to get out of ’Nam.”
“What people believed didn’t matter. The truth did.”
There is a horrible force outside that should not be seen. One look at that is all it takes to inspire terrible violence. Nobody is aware of its nature or origin. A few dispersed survivors are still alive five years after it started, including Malorie and her two young children. She had fantasized about escaping to a location where they might be secure while residing in an abandoned house next to the river. It’s time to leave now that the boy and girl are four, but the trip will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat while blindfolded, with nothing but her wits and the kids’ trained hearing as a guide.
They are doomed to one poor decision. They are constantly being followed, but is it a person, an animal, or a monster? Bird Box, which weaves together the past and present, is a glimpse of a world in disarray that will have you turning the pages quickly.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can’t lift their heads to gaze upon them?”
“In a world where you can’t open your eyes, isn’t a blindfold all you could ever hope for?”
“We left because some people choose to wait for news and others make their own.”
“You are saving their lives for a life not living.”
Chyna Shepard, 26, can’t sleep on her first night in her best friend’s family’s Napa Valley home as she stares out a starry window into midnight. The gut instinct works well. Edgler Foreman Vess, a vicious sociopath, has invaded the home with the intention of killing everyone there. Vess, a self-described “homicidal adventurer,” claims that his primary goals in life are to sate all of his cravings as they come, to lose himself in sensation, to live without regret or boundaries, and to live with “intensity.” In his lethal orbit, Chyna is imprisoned.
Chyna is a survivor who has become tougher after a lifetime of fighting for safety and self-respect. She will now be put to the ultimate test. Her initial goal is only to survive, but by coincidence, she discovers the identity of the nearby innocent Vess’s next target, a person only she can save. Chyna mobilizes all of her inner resources to save a girl in jeopardy as the frightening threat posed by Edgler Foreman Vess grows ever more imminent, driven by a recently discovered yearning for significance beyond simple self-preservation.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
“Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.”
“Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.”
“Even if God exists, does He know that you do?”
“Sometimes, just trying was a triumph.”
He’s weird. Actually, Odd Thomas. Brilliant fry-cook at Pico Mundo Grill; lover of Stormy Llewellyn, a stunning woman; and perhaps the only one with a chance of halting one of the darkest crimes in the brutal history of murder…
Odd and Stormy’s desert village is now home to something sinister. It manifests as a shadowy figure with a morbid appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world’s worst murderers, and odd shadows that follow him around like hyenas. Odd is anxious. He has knowledge and insight into the living, the dead, and the imminently deceased. Things that require action from him. He is now scared for Pico Mundo, Stormy, and himself. Because he is aware that the town would be destroyed on Wednesday, August 15, by a ferocious, bloody cyclone of violence and murder…
Best Quotes from this Book:
“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”
“Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”
“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.”
“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one’s cow has exploded.”
“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you’ll do next.”
John Wayne Cleaver is risky, and he is aware of this. He has worked hard his entire life to fall short of his potential. Despite his obsession with serial killers, he is not genuinely interested in becoming one. He, therefore, adheres to strict standards he has established for himself in order to protect himself and the people around him, living his everyday life as though it were a form of personal religion that could deliver him from eternal punishment.
John is accustomed to seeing dead bodies. Actually, he enjoys them. They do not ask for or anticipate the empathy he is unable to provide. Perhaps this is what gives him the objectivity to see that the body the police have just discovered behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat is different and to understand what that difference signifies.
Now, for the very first time, John must deal with a threat that is external to himself, one that he is powerless to stop, one that threatens everyone and everything he would adore if he could only. The first book of a trilogy by Dan Wells will keep you up at night and then haunt your dreams.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right – John Cleaver”
“I’m a good person,” I said, “because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.”
“Fear is about things that you can’t control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don’t get scared of yourself because you always know what you’re going to do.”
“I used to have a list of people I was going to kill one day. It was against my rules now, but sometimes I really missed that list.”
“I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.”
STOP. You shouldn’t have used your bare hands to touch this flier. Don’t put it down, please. Too late now. They keep an eye on you. David Wong is my name. John is my best friend. Those are made-up names. You should consider changing yours. The information on these pages, including that on the sauce, Korrok, the invasion, and the future, may not be information you want to be aware of. It’s too late, though. You gave the book a touch. In the game you are. You have under-eye bags. Knowledge is the only defense. You must finish reading this book. everything, even the bratwurst portion. Why? Just have faith in me. The crucial fact is that the substance, called Soy Sauce, allows users to peer through a window into a different reality. I never got the chance to refuse on behalf of John. You continue to. I truly apologize for including you in this. But it is important that you remember one thing when you read about these dreadful things and the extremely dark era the world is about to enter: None of this was my fault.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”
“And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.”
“Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.”
“When a man plans, a woman laughs.”
“You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.”
This fantastically spooky horror book, published by James Patterson’s brand-new children’s imprint, with a plot motivated by the Jack the Ripper murders and a shocking, terrifying ending. Audrey Rose Wadsworth, age 17, was born a lord’s daughter and had a life of wealth and pleasure ahead of her. She does, however, conduct a clandestine secret life in between the social teas and silk dress fittings.
Audrey frequently eludes her strict father’s orders and defies social norms to visit her uncle’s lab to learn about the horrific field of forensic medicine. When Audrey is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer while working on a spate of brutally murdered corpses, she is forced to confront her safe haven. This breathtaking, #1 New York Times bestselling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco will be tough to forget due to the story’s stunning turns and turns, which are complemented by actual, ominous vintage images.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn’t believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery.”
“Fear is a hungry beast. The more you feed it, the more it grows.”
“Wield your assets like a blade, Cousin. No man has invented a corset for our brains. Let them think they rule the world. It’s a queen who sits on that throne. Never forget that.”
“There’s nothing better than a little danger dashed with some romance.”
“I was determined to be both pretty and fierce, as Mother had said I could be. Just because I was interested in a man’s job didn’t mean I had to give up being girly. Who defined those roles anyhow?”
This town is filled with spirals, it seems. The small Japanese coastal village of Kurouzu-cho, which is shrouded in fog, is cursed. Teenager Kirie Goshima’s withdrawn boyfriend Shuichi Saito claims that their town is not haunted by an individual or being but rather by a pattern called uzumaki, the spiral, which is the hypnotic hidden shape of the universe. This peculiar horror manga masterpiece is now available in a single volume. Embark on a terrifying downward spiral!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Spirals…. this town is contaminated with spirals.”
Monday It appears that only Claudia is aware that Charles is missing. More like sisters than pals, Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable. Claudia is concerned when Monday doesn’t show up for the first day of school. Claudia recognizes a problem when she doesn’t show up for the second day or the second week. She wouldn’t be left alone on Monday to deal with tests and bullies. Not with her grades on the line and the rumors from last year. More than ever, Claudia needed her best friend—and only friend. Monday’s sister April is even less helpful, and Monday’s mother won’t give Claudia a straight answer. Claudia learns that no one can recall when they last saw Monday as she continues to investigate the disappearance of her friend. How is it possible for a teenage girl to simply go without anyone noticing?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute.
Rumors eat up dreams without condiments.
Rumors do not have expiration dates.
Rumors can be deadly.
Rumors can get you killed.”
“Well, sometimes the people we love the most can hurt us the most.”
“Like the color pink, someone always sees the story different. Some see rose and magenta, and other see coral and salmon. When at the end of the day, it’s just regular old pink.”
“This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her . . . one year later.”
“But when help isn’t invited, it ain’t nothing but an unwanted houseguest.”
A junior high school class is sent to a barren island where, as part of a brutal authoritarian program, they are issued with weapons and forced to murder one another until just one survives. This is the basis for Koushun Takami’s infamous high-octane thriller. Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the twenty-first century and a strong allegory of what it meant to be youthful and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog society. It was first criticized as violent exploitation when it was published in Japan, where it went on to become an instant hit. Battle Royale, a current Japanese pulp classic that was adapted into the contentious blockbuster film of the same name, is now available in English for the first time.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”
“By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.”
“It’s not a bad thing to be loved.”
“Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they’re a part of you now.”
“To memorize something, it’s best to write it down.”