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The latest additions to The Library's collection
If you have a complete or in-progress work you’d like added to The Library or an indie-published book to include in the Buy Indie section, follow this guide, and we’ll help spread the word.
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In the stacks
Speculative
Horror
Terror at Lake Eucha | Jean Marie Bauhaus | Horror (NT) (C) (F)
Something lingers in the woods of Lake Eucha... something that refuses to be forgotten. A year following her brother's disappearance, Melanie Fisher is determined to get answers. Her quest takes her to the site of an abandoned amusement park, where she finds a lost video camera containing evidence that her brother was losing his mind. She begins to question her own sanity when memories surface of childhood visits to the lakeside amusement park that occurred long after the park was destroyed by fire. An online search tells her she's not the only one with such impossible memories. Common sense—and her concerned boyfriend—tell her to leave it to the authorities. But Melanie's own instincts tell her that giving in to the madness and opening herself up to the forces drawing her back to Lake Eucha may be the only way to get the answers she seeks, along with any hope of saving her brother.
The Hag | Jean Marie Bauhaus | Supernatural/Psychological Thriller (NT) (C) (F)
Michael Latimer is living the good life. He's head of his university's English department, he has a great marriage to a beautiful wife, an assistant who makes him look good at work… What more could he ask for? But when one night he finds himself immobile in his own bed as terrifying visions taunt and torture him, his life begins to crumble--along with his sanity. Rational man that he is, Michael gladly seizes on a diagnosis of sleep paralysis--a sensible, scientific-sounding name for the ghastly night visits that plague him. But as he continues to grapple with his condition, his research takes him down paranormal rabbit holes that make him question everything he knows about the nature of the world, and evil… and Kathy, his wife.
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Buy Indie
Contemporary
Sparks, Spark and Shadow | Trisha Thacker | Contemporary; Fantasy; Young Adult (N)
What if the fae came to your world and tried to help, and then were overshadowed by something much worse? Fateh finds his loyalties divided when he finds himself on both sides of the fence.
Short Fiction Collection
The Faceless Man | Daniel Sherrier | Super Hero (S)
“We must become something more than we were,” Fantastic Man had told them. But he’s gone now—the world’s first super-powered crimefighter is missing in action, leaving only a few to carry on. Miranda strives to live up to the ideal of Ultra Woman despite reminders of her own shortcomings. Ken dons the blank mask of Mr. Amazing while wondering if there’s a better way. And Alyssa tries to put her brief stint as the Silver Stranger behind her. Their adventures continue in The Faceless Man, a collection of stories and vignettes that journey from the depths of the human mind to the surface of the moon. Olympus City produces an endless variety of extraordinary phenomena wrapped within fallible humanity, pushing these three friends to their limits—pushing them to become something more.
Speculative
Science Fiction
Detective Missy Muffet | By Gail E. Moss | Science Fiction/Young Adult (NT)
Little Miss Muffet is an all grown up, hard-boiled Police Detective, that's got a bone to pick with the Spider. Follow her as she hunts for a kidnapped girl, and the mad scientist who made the Spider, but might ruin her.
Horror
WILSON | Gail E. Moss | Horror/Thriller (NA)
In This Castaway meets The Island of Dr. Moreau thriller, a genetics company’s party yacht sinks, leaving a survivor to swim to an eerie island where she’s dragged ashore by an elusive man in a wet tuxedo. Time is running out for one of them to win the battle for the third person on the island, the company’s little girl!
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Science Fiction
The False Infinite | Joseph W. Knowles | Science Fiction (NA) (C) (F)
The power plays and intrigues of geopolitics take to the stars. From the halls of earthly justice to faraway planets, readers will meet characters who are power-hungry and idealistic. Will a scientific mission get caught up in the whirlwind of politics? What is justice and who is subject to it? Ponder these questions and more in "The False Infinite."
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Keep ‘em coming.