New this week
The latest additions to The Library's collection
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In the stacks
Contemporary
Finding a Best Friend | J.T. Swan | Coming-of-age, mental health | (N) (I) (F)
I plan to post a new chapter every week.
Haunted by his past and insecurities, Jake forms an unlikely friendship with Brooke, a woman battling her own demons. As their bond deepens amid a backdrop of danger and uncertainty, they must confront their deepest fears and discover the strength within themselves to heal.
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Literary
I Hear You Watching | Zachary Dillon | Psychological Suspense (N)
A disturbing, deeply interior novel based on the author's experience with hearing voices and paranoia. Alex hears a voice out his window. He believes it's his neighbors spying on him. Harassing him. Are they skilled hackers? Government agents targeting him for a secret experiment? Are the police in on it? His friends? The girl he met online? He'll turn his apartment upside-down to find their bugs, search his own body for microchips, confront his neighbors face-to-face… Will he hurt the only person who can help him? Little does Alex know, the true culprit is much closer to home.
denouement | Noah Rymer | Literary | (NA)
"denouement" chronicles three young women drifting through the labyrinthine confines of suburbia late one night, a psychogeographic tale with flashes of weird fiction, acid house, Greco-Roman mythological allusion and more—like if Flannery O’Connor sought an asphalt-and-concrete-encrusted North to be Christ-haunted or if Celine wrote Journey To The End Of The Night deep within the bowels of a sinister rave.
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Advance Review Copy (ARC)
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Haggard House | Elisabeth Rhoads | Historical, Psychological Suspense (N) (C) (F)
Haggard House is a psychological thriller set in the mid-19th century. Imagine The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Tara Westover’s Educated.
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Thriller & Mystery
Sweet Things Dying | R.R. Scott | Historical (N) (I) (F)→($)
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1887—Adam Cole, a private investigator living in London’s East End, is drawn into the mystery of Heather Bloom, a popular local coffeehouse girl and Cole’s former lover. Heather has suddenly vanished, leaving behind a series of clues which do not add up. Cole is met with several challenges, including an unfinished letter sent by Heather moments before she disappeared along with push-back from Heather’s stern father, a local reverend who has an unsettled history with Cole. At the same time, he must deal with the mad pleas of his own father who is an inmate at Broadmoor Asylum, locked away for the murder of Cole’s older brother – a childhood memory that haunts him throughout his investigation. Over several days and nights, Cole uncovers secrets about Heather’s family and neighbours that lead him through the shadowy alleys of East London and to the sea-sprayed streets of Whitby. As Cole pieces together one shocking suspicion after another, he’s left with a terrible realisation about the Bloom family, along with guilty feelings about his own failed relationship with Heather – and if that weren’t enough, he is dealt one final, horrific blow regarding the childhood murder of his own brother.