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Enjoy our presentation of If I Disappear written by Eliza Jane Brazier and published by Berkley. When her favorite true-crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her instincts. Sera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated ranch outside Rachel's small hometown to begin her search. She's convinced her investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this unfamiliar world, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the first woman to vanish from the ranch, and she won't be the last... Rachel did try to warn her.
Please be advised, If I Disappear contains depictions or discussions of animal abuse, alcoholism, drug use and violence.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.Libby ebook: https://bit.ly/IfIDisappear_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of The Flight Attendant written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Random House. When binge-drinking flight attendant Cassandra wakes up in a Dubai hotel next to a body, she has no idea what happened, and all she can think to do is lie about it. She lies to her coworkers, and eventually to the FBI agents who question her. Could she have killed him? If not, then who did?
Please be advised, The Flight Attendant contains depictions or discussions of alcoholism, death and strong language.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.Libby ebook: http://bit.ly/FlightAttendant_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of The Night Circus written by Erin Morgenstern and published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
The Night Circus was given the Alex Award and was named the top Fantasy book of 2012.
Please be advised, The Night Circus contains depictions or discussions of violence, death and parental abuse.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.
Libby eBook - https://bit.ly/NightCircus_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of The Stranger Diaries written by Elly Griffiths and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare's colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland's most famous story, "The Stranger," left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favorite literature. To make matters worse, the police suspect the killer is someone Clare knows. Unsure whom to trust, she turns to her closest confidant, her diary, the only outlet she has for her darkest suspicions and fears about the case. Then one day she notices something odd. Writing that isn't hers, left on the page of an old diary : Hallo Clare. You don't know me. Clare becomes more certain than ever: "The Stranger" has come to terrifying life.
The Stranger Diaries was given the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Please be advised, The Stranger Diaries contains depictions or discussions of death.
This title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive and an ebook and audiobook on Hoopla .Libby ebook: https://bit.ly/StrangerDiaries_Libby
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Enjoy our presentation of Nothing to See Here, written by Kevin Wilson and published by HarperCollins. Lillian and Madison were unlikely, yet inseparable friends at their boarding school. Then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they have barely spoken since. Years later, Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison's twin step-kids are moving in, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there's a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it's the truth. Thinking of the life that has consistently disappointed her, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one demanding summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other while also staying out of the way of Madison's uptight husband. Surprised by her intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her. Could this be the start of the amazing life she'd always hoped for?
Please be advised: This title contains some strong language.
Nothing to See Here is a New York Times Bestseller
This title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive and an audiobook and ebook on Hoopla.
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Enjoy our presentation of Circe written by Madeline Miller and published by Back Bay Books.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
Please be advised, Circe contains a rape scene and episodes of torture.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.
Libby eBook - https://bit.ly/Circe_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of True Grit written by Charles Portis and published by Harry N. Abrams. Mattie Ross is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 cash. Filled with an unwavering urge to avenge her father’s blood, Mattie finds and, after some tenacious finagling, enlists one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, as her partner in pursuit.
True Grit is a New York Times Bestseller and has been adapted in to several films.
Please be advised, True Grit contains depictions or discussions of graphic violence, death, sexism, racism and alcoholism.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive and Hoopla.
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Music: Beach Bum Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Enjoy our presentation of A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail written by Bill Bryson and published by Thorndike Press. Bryson shares his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The "AT" offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with Bryson's comic genius, it also provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude and to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start there's his gloriously out-of-shape buddy from Iowa who accompanies the similarly unfit Bryson on the trail. Mile by arduous mile these latter-day pioneers survive the threat of bear attacks, the loss of key provisions, a gang of Ralph Lauren-attired yuppies, and a security guard who, for no reason, impounds Bryson's car. But Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this fragile and beautiful trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, a lament, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature.
New York Times Best Seller
Please be advised, A Walk in the Woods contains depictions or discussions of sexual references and strong language.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.Libby ebook: https://bit.ly/WalkintheWoods_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of Along Came a Spider written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown & Co. He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.
New York Times bestseller
Please be advised, Along Came a Spider contains depictions or discussions of kidnapping and death.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.Libby ebook: http://bit.ly/AlongCameaSpider_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory written by Caitlin Doughty and published by W.W. Norton & Company. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In her best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story.
Please be advised, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory contains depictions or discussions of death.
This title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive and as an audiobook on Hoopla.
Libby eBook - https://maryland.overdrive.com/media/2310898
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Music: Beach Bum Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Enjoy our presentation of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, written by Grady Hendrix and published by Quirk Books. Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this '90s-set horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town, perfect for murderinos and fans of Stephen King.
Please be advised: This title contains gore and child abuse.
This title is a New York Times Best Seller, and a Barnes & Noble Best Fiction Book of 2020
This title is available as an ebook and auidobook on Libby by Overdrive.
Libby Ebook: https://bit.ly/SouthernBookClub_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of The House in the Cerulean Sea written by TJ Klune and published by Tor. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children and their mysterious caretaker reside.
The House in the Cerulean Sea was an Alex Award Winner in 2021. It was also one of Book Riot’s 20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies.
Please be advised, The House in the Cerulean Sea contains depictions or discussions of child abuse and hate speech.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive and an audiobook on Hoopla.
Libby eBook - http://bit.ly/CeruleanSea_ebook
Libby Audio - http://bit.ly/CeruleanSea_audio
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Enjoy our presentation of Sharp Objects written by Gillian Flynn and published by Penguin Random House. Camille Preaker was recently released from a psych hospital, and is now working as a reporter in Chicago. Her superior gives her a troubling assignment: return to her hometown to report on the unsolved murder of a young girl and the disappearance of another. Heading home means she’ll have to face her neurotic, hypochondriac mother, and a half-sister she barely knows. Haunted by her own demons, Camille must solve a psychological puzzle of her own if she wants to get the story—and survive her return home.
Please be advised, Sharp Objects contains some content involving violence, sex, explicit language, drinking, drugs, and smoking.
This title is available in ebook and audiobook form through Libby by Overdrive.
Libby ebook: http://bit.ly/SharpObjects_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of Middlesex, written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction.
Please be advised, Middlesex contains strong language, homophobia and graphic sexual content.
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Middlesex is available as an ebook and audiobook from Libby by Overdrive.
Libby Ebook: https://www.overdrive.com/media/1567897/middlesex
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Enjoy our presentation of The Widow’s House written by Carol Goodman and published by HarperCollins. Goodman’s novel blends the gothic allure of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and the crazed undertones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper with the twisty, contemporary edge of A.S.A. Harrison’s The Silent Wife - a tale of psychological suspense set in New York’s Hudson Valley.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Hoopla and as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive.
Libby eBook - http://bit.ly/WidowsHouse_Libby
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Enjoy our presentation of Finding Chika written by Mitch Albom and published by Harper. Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika's arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, "No one in Haiti can help you with." Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure.
Please be advised, Finding Chika contains depictions or discussions of death of a child.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.Libby ebook: http://bit.ly/FindingChika_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of South Pole Station, written by Ashley Shelby and published by Picador.
Cooper accepts her place in the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica, where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. The only thing the Polies have in common is the conviction that they don’t belong anywhere else. Then a fringe scientist arrives, claiming climate change is a hoax. His presence will rattle this already-imbalanced community, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.
South Pole Station is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
South Pole Station can be found as an audiobook on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11945185
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Enjoy our presentation of City of Girls written by Elizabeth Gilbert and published by Riverhead Books. City of Girls is a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.
Please be advised, City of Girls contains explicit sexual content.
This title is available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.
Libby ebook: http://bit.ly/CityofGirls_ebook
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Enjoy our presentation of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong written by James Loewen and published by New Press. This work criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Lies My Teacher Told Me was recognized with an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Please be advised, Lies My Teacher Told Me contains depictions or discussions of historical violence racism.
This title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive and an ebook and audiobook on Hoopla.Libby ebook--http://bit.ly/LiesMyTeacherToldMe
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Enjoy our presentation of Amberlough written by Lara Elena Donnelly and published by Tor Books. Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party--nicknamed the Ospies--is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril's cover is blown on a mission, however, he must become a turncoat in exchange for his life. Returning to Amberlough under the Ospies' watchful eye, Cyril enters a complex game of deception. One of his concerns is safeguarding Aristide, who refuses to let anyone--the crooked city police or the homophobic Ospies--dictate his life. Enter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, top dancer at the Bee and Aristide's runner, who could be the key to Cyril's plans--if she can be trusted. As the twinkling lights of nightclub marquees yield to the rising flames of a fascist revolution, these three will struggle to survive using whatever means--and people--necessary. Including each other.
Amberlough was nominated for Best Novel in 2017
Please be advised, Amberlough contains depictions or discussions of graphic violence, sexual content, language and torture.
This title is available as an audiobook on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12018246Please visit www.calvertlibrary.info for more information.
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