#dark #ya #magic #fantasy #supernatural #femaleauthor

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Sixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy--she screams if Nick gets near her. She's no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. The magicians want a charm that Nick's mother stole--and they want it badly enough to kill. Alan is Nick's partner in demon slaying and the only person he trusts in the world. So things get very scary and very complicated when Nick begins to suspect that everything Alan has told him about their father, their mother, their past, and what they are doing is a complete lie. . . .

The Demon's Lexicon

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#paperback #fiction #amadnesssodiscreet #asylum #crimesolving #ya #dark #pregnancy 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television’s True Detective and American Horror Story. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum—but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace’s brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends—and hope. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface.

A Madness So Discreet

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#hardcover #fiction #conviction #suspense #denisemina #detective #thriller #dark 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded rock star by her side and extremely dangerous enemies on her trail. Anna McLean loves to revel in life's unsavory details. When she's keeping up appearances as an upper-class Edinburgh housewife, there's no better escape than other people's sordid stories retold in true-crime podcasts. Until the day it all falls apart. A new podcast turns out to have a connection to Anna's own dark past--the secret history she's taken great pains to conceal. Hours later, her husband announces he's leaving her--for her own best friend. And when the best friend's husband--who happens to be former rock star Fin Cohen--shows up on Anna's front stoop, a nosy neighbor plasters their photo all over the internet. Her cover well and truly blown, Anna's only choice is to run--and take Fin along for his own protection. Reigning queen of Scottish crime fiction Denise Mina deftly weaves the classic thriller elements of a woman with a secret past, an average citizen thrust into a high-stakes international chase, and a cheating spouse, with online life--internet sleuthing, true-crime podcasts, insta-celebrities, and Twitter--to craft a modern, propulsive page-turner like nothing you've read before.

Conviction

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Texas

What the Woods Keep

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Pennsylvania

Here are 18 bonechilling tales of these bloodsucking creatures of the night, written by some of the most distinguished writers of the genre. Premier writers including Anne Rice and Bram Stroker, represent some of the finest horror writing spanning the past two centuries. Here are gothic melodramas set in Russia and Germany, as well as more modern twists on the vampire legend that take place in contemporary England and the United States.

Vampire Stories

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Georgia

A Novel

Hiring a live-in nanny to attend her family's needs while she attempts to finish writing her book, Lady Daniels begins questioning the young woman's agenda when the latter instantly connects with the family and begins acting in suspicious ways.

Woman No. 17

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Illinois

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book One

Tie–in books for the feel–bad movie of the year!

The Bad Beginning

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Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun - as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth instalment in Lemony Snicket′s serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby. With millions of readers worldwide, and the Baudelaire′s fate turning from unpleasant to unseemly, it is clear that Lemony Snicket has taken nearly all the fun out of children′s books. Ages 10+

A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: the Carnivorous Carnival

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Nevada

"Kathleen Jennings' prose dazzles, and her magic feels real enough that you might even prick your finger on it."—Kelly Link "Half mystery, half fairy tale, all exquisitely rendered and full of teeth.”—Holly Black In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers—a note that makes question her memories of their disappearance and her father’s departure. A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can live—and even thrive—under a burning sun, Flyaway introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tales of eerie dogs, vanished schools, cursed monsters, and enchanted bottles. Flyaway enchants you with the sly, beautiful darkness of Karen Russell and a world utterly its own.

Flyaway

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We Went to the Woods : A Novel by Caite Dolan-Leach (2019, Hardcover)

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    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House; 1st Edition (July 2, 2019)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0399588884
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399588884
    Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
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They went off the grid. Their secrets didn’t. For readers of The Secret History and The Immortalists comes a novel about the allure—and dangers—of disconnecting. “A sharp, spellbinding cautionary tale, one that reminds us that even those who do remember the past might also wind up repeating it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into an idyllic self-sustaining compound called the Homestead. Mack, a publicly disgraced grad-school dropout, believes it’s her calling to write their story. She immediately falls in love with all four friends, seduced by their charisma and grand plans—and deeply attracted to their secrets. But it proves difficult for Mack to uncover the truth about their nightly disappearances and complicated loyalties, especially since she is protecting her own past. Initially exhilarated by restoring the rustic dwellings, planting a garden, and learning the secrets of fermentation, the group is soon divided by intense romantic and sexual relationships, jealousies, slights and suspicions. And as winter settles in, their experiment begins to feel not only misguided, but deeply isolating and dangerous. Caite Dolan-Leach spins a poignant and deeply human tale with sharp insights into our modern anxieties, our collective failures, and the timeless desire to withdraw from the world. Praise for We Went to the Woods “We Went to the Woods is a chillingly cautionary tale for the twenty-first century, an enthralling story of failed nobility and the consequences of trying to escape from a world that will never let you go. Caite Dolan-Leach’s prose is both nimble and elegantly evocative, leading the reader through the idyllic pastures and deadly pitfalls of a rustic experiment gone wrong. As five hopeful idealists try to live off the land, the reader sees their friendships blossom, and yet we hardly dare look, knowing as the seasons turn that something even darker than winter is on its way.”—Christopher J. Yates, author of Grist Mill Road and Black Chalk

We Went to the Woods

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Mississippi

When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.

The Darkest Corners

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#fiction #juvenilefiction #horror #dark #fantasy #adventure 

Iowa

"On a distant island where day and night exist on fourteen-year cycles, and the islanders migrate south each sunset, three children get left behind and must find a way off the island before the Night finds them"--

Nightfall

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Virginia

THE USA TODAY AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BESTSELLER

"If you enjoyed The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, read Darling Rose Gold."--Washington Post

"Sensationally good - two complex characters power the story like a nuclear reaction..."--Lee Child
 
A most anticipated book of 2020 by Newsweek ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ Shondaland ∙ PopSugar ∙ Woman's Day ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BookRiot ∙ She Reads
 
Mothers never forget. Daughters never forgive.
 
For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold.

Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar.

After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes.

Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. She says she's forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty Watts always settles a score.

Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling...

And she's waited such a long time for her mother to come home.

 "Dazzling, dark and utterly delicious"--J. P. Delaney, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before

"One of the most captivating and disturbing thrillers I've read this year. An astonishing debut"--Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife

Darling Rose Gold

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From the acclaimed team behind The Imaginary comes another powerful, poignant, and darkly fantastical story about friendship, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl.

Ember and Ness are best friends, completely inseparable. Ember can't imagine what life would be without Ness. Until Ness dies, in a most sudden and unexpected way. Ember feels completely empty. How can this even be real?

Then Ember finds a way into the afterworld-a place where the recently dead reside. She knows there must be a way to bring Ness back, so she decides to find it. Because that's what friends do: rescue each other. But the afterworld holds its own dangers. How far will Ember go to make things the way they were again?

Paired with enchanting illustrations from Emily Gravett, A. F. Harrold's powerfully woven tale explores the lengths we go to for the people we love.

The Afterwards

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kentucky

In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.

Practical Demonkeeping

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A Kidnapping. A Suicide. An Unspeakable Decision... The young lives of James and Dylan Paxton are torn apart when their brother mysteriously disappears on a quiet street in 1954. In the wake of the crime, their family shatters. Abandoned by their parents, the young brothers are thrust into a world where they don't belong. Now, James and Dylan must find a way to survive. Tormented as social outcasts and haunted by the past, James strikes out at the world, while Dylan seeks safety in his brother s shadow. When they discover a terrible family secret, they face the most difficult decision of their lives. And one man s suicide could save them all. This is a story of the enduring scars left by a family s self-destruction and the unshakable bond of two brothers as they struggle to find their own identities and their place in the world.

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Buried Treasure 

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#hardcover #fiction #anxiety #contemporary #dark #depression #hardhitting #mentalhealth 

After a failed suicide attempt, Ellery tries to return the gun she bought to the store and runs into Colter Sawyer, a boy from her school, who does everything he can to prevent her from trying to take her life again.

Teach Me to Forget

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Michigan

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South Carolina

A Raisa Jordan Thriller

Raisa "Rae" Jordan, an agent for the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, isn't in Israel for more than a day before her predecessor is killed in a Tel Aviv square. Assigned to investigate the assassination of one of her own, she must also protect Judge Ben Taylor and his teenage daughter. They may be the sniper's next target and are most certainly being threatened by a desperate cadre of terrorists with their sights set on the Secretary of State's upcoming visit. But is an attack on the Secretary of State all that they have planned or is that just the beginning?

There are no protocols for this kind of a situation, and following the rules is exactly the kind of thing that could get the Taylors killed. To subvert an attack that could crush the fledgling peace in the Middle East, Jordan must trust her instincts and bring together a contentious team of agents from Israel, the U.S., and the Palestinian territories to uncover a conspiracy years in the making.

With millions of lives hanging in the balance, Dark Waters, Chris Goff's explosive new thriller, is a series debut that mirrors global headlines and will have you frantically turning pages.

Dark Waters

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Sarah Rees Brennan

The Demon's Lexicon

Mindy McGinnis

A Madness So Discreet

Denise Mina

Conviction

Katya de Becerra

What the Woods Keep

Peter Cushing (Introduction by); Richard N. Dalby (Illustrator)

Vampire Stories

Edan Lepucki

Woman No. 17

Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

The Bad Beginning

Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist (Illustrator); Michael Kupperman (Illustrator)

A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: the Carnivorous Carnival

Kathleen Jennings

Flyaway

Caite Dolan-Leach

We Went to the Woods

Kara Thomas

The Darkest Corners

Jake Halpern; Peter Kujawinski

Nightfall

Stephanie Wrobel

Darling Rose Gold

A. F. Harrold; Emily Gravett (Illustrator)

The Afterwards

Christopher Moore

Practical Demonkeeping

Jake Halpern; Peter Kujawinski

Nightfall

Jack B. Downs

Buried Treasure

Erica M. Chapman

Teach Me to Forget

Jake Halpern; Peter Kujawinski

Nightfall

Denise Mina

Conviction

Chris Goff

Dark Waters

Jonathan Kellerman; Jesse Kellerman

A Measure of Darkness

Stephanie Wrobel

Darling Rose Gold

Denise Mina

Conviction