Emily Habeck

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Love Story

A lyrical and daring debut novel about marriage, motherhood, and letting go, this intergenerational love story begins with newlyweds Wren and her husband, Lewis--a man who, over the course of nine months, transforms into a great white shark.

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist's heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams.

At first, Wren internally resists her husband's fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis changes? Then, a glimpse of Lewis's developing carnivorous nature activates long-repressed memories for Wren, whose story vacillates between her childhood living on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her time with a college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds. Woven throughout this bold novel is the story of Wren's mother, Angela, who becomes pregnant with Wren at fifteen in an abusive relationship amidst her parents' crumbling marriage. In the present, all of Wren's grief eventually collides, and she is forced to make an impossible choice.

An emotional exploration of motherhood, marriage, metamorphosis, and letting go, Shark Heart is an unforgettable love story about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, animals and people--all while examining what it truly means to be human.

Shark Heart

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John Fowles

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

"A superb novel...Evil has seldom been so sinister." --Time Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry--remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize. "A bravura first novel...As a horror story, this book is a remarkable tour de force." --New Yorker

The Collector

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Shaun Hamill

A Novel

If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it." --Stephen King ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: ESQUIRE - THE NERD DAILY - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST Monsters both figurative and very literal stalk the Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: how in the late '60s, his bookish mother, Margaret, marries Lovecraft-lover Harry against her better judgment. The couple has two daughters--Sydney, born for the spotlight, and the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a natural writer and storyteller. But finances are tight, Margaret and Eunice are haunted by horrific dreams, and Harry starts acting strangely. He becomes obsessed with the construction of an elaborately crafted haunted house attraction, christened the Wandering Dark. The family tries to shield baby Noah from the house's faux horrors, but unbeknownst to them, he's being visited by a furry beast with glowing orange eyes--the same ghastly being glimpsed by both his mother and sister. However, unlike them, Noah decides to let the creature in. . . . As he approaches the conclusion of his family's tale, it becomes more and more apparent that there's only one way the story can end: with Noah making the ultimate sacrifice.

A Cosmology of Monsters

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National Geographic Kids

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

300 Outrageous Facts

A collection of fun and surprising facts about our world.

🎆 Weird but True books 6,7,8, & By the Numbers

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Ohio

The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea monster Octavius, a kraken. In Octavius's many arms, Lilly learns of friendship, loyalty, and family. When Octavius, forbidden by Lilly to harm humans, is captured by seafaring traders and sold to a circus, Lilly becomes his only hope for salvation. Desperate to find him, she strikes a bargain with a witch that carriesa shocking price.

Her journey to win Octavius's freedom is difficult. The circus master wants a Coat of Illusions; the Coat tailor wants her undead husband back from a witch; the witch wants her skin back from two bandits; the bandits just want some company, but they might kill her first. Lilly's quest tests her resolve, tries her patience, and leaves her transformed in every way.

A powerfully written debut from a young fantasy author, S.M. Wheeler'sSea Change is an exhilarating tale of adventure, resilience, and selflessness in the name of friendship.

Sea Change

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Nina Laurin

Louisiana

BLACK MIRROR meets Darcy Coates in this exploration of the dangerous, dark side of beauty in the digital age, with a gothic, haunted-house setting. When Izzy is dragged from Brooklyn to a tiny town for her parents' new job, she's not thrilled. The silver lining is the gorgeous old mansion she's moved into: the former home of an artist's muse who died tragically in a fire. But the house has its quirks: whole floors are closed off, paintings are covered up, and cell reception is nonexistent. Izzy throws herself into starting an Instagram fashion account using the gowns and jewelry she finds hidden away in the house. She looks perfect in the photos--almost unnaturally perfect--and they quickly go viral. Soon she's got a new best friend, a potential boyfriend, and is surrounded by a group of girls who want the photoshoots and fame for themselves. But there's a darkness in the house, and a darkness growing in Izzy, too. When girls start dying, it's clear that something--or someone--in the house is growing in power, with deadly intentions.

The Last Beautiful Girl

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Allie Rowbottom

A Family History

A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories. A New York Times Editors' Choice One of People Magazine's Best Books of Summer An Amazon Best Book of the Month An Indie Next Pick A Real Simple Best Book of 2018 In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege - but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments. More than 100 years after that deal was struck, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with the same incurable cancer, a disease that had also claimed her own mother's life. Determined to combat what she had come to consider the "Jell-O curse" and her looming mortality, Mary began obsessively researching her family's past, determined to understand the origins of her illness and the impact on her life of Jell-O and the traditional American values the company championed. Before she died in 2015, Mary began to send Allie boxes of her research and notes, in the hope that her daughter might write what she could not. JELL-O GIRLS is the liberation of that story. A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune, JELL-O GIRLS is a family history, a feminist history, and a story of motherhood, love and loss. In crystalline prose Rowbottom considers the roots of trauma not only in her own family, but in the American psyche as well, ultimately weaving a story that is deeply personal, as well as deeply connected to the collective female experience.

JELL-O Girls

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Illinois

Weird but true 

Charles L. Grant

California

In a Dark Dream

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Warren Ellis

Massachusetts

Tales of Human Waste

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#reference #records #worldrecords #almanac #trivia #quizzing #weird #funny

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

300 + Extraordinary Feats by Ordinary People

Compiles oddball world records submitted by visitors to RecordSetter.com, such as "Most TV Channels Watched in 30 Seconds," and "Most Spam E-mails in an Inbox."

The RecordSetter Book of World Records

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Alabama

One Rainy Day in May

The Familiar, Volume 1

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J. W. Ocker

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Washington

Against his better judgment, fifth grader Griffin Birch follows his best friend down the new slide in the school playground, and at the other end of this portal they discover a cruel world populated by bloodthirsty creatures on a quest to become immortal.

The Black Slide

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Jonathan Maberry

Unstoppable

A Joe Ledger anthology of zombie and monster stories by other respected horror and thriller writers including Steve Alten, Mira Grant, and Tim Lebbon among others.

Joe Ledger

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Janet Goldenberg

This book lived in a house with pets. There is writing on the inside front cover and a sticker on the back. 

Texas

A Cartoon Encyclopedia of Incredibly Strange Things

The oddest, the grossest, the most amazing information -- it's all here in this outrageous collection, packed with eye-popping, comic-book-style illustrations.

Did you know...

In Japan they hold funerals for broken dolls and other objects?

There's a kid in Sweden whose parents named him Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnckssqlbbllll6?

That Albert Einstein's brain can be found in not one but two pickling jars in a doctor's apartment in Kansas? (Don't even ask about Walt Whitman's!)

It's oh-so-weird -- and oh-so-true!

Weird but True

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Slight rip on cover as shown in pictures 

Minnesota

Horror tales, weird stories, super fun illustrations Beware of the Supernatural paperback vintage horror

Mississippi

Weird tales of unexplained paperback short stories super illustrations and weird tales

Beware of the Supernatural paperback vintage

Karen Russell

A collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe, and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the imageson his body.

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

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Whitley Strieber

New Jersey

The Next Step

"After telling the world of his remarkable contacts with apparent aliens in his mega-bestsellers Communion and Transformation, Whitley Strieber suddenly and mysteriously retired from public life in 1989. At the time he said only that he would not return until he had something fundamentally new to say about the beings he had come to call "the visitors."" "What had happened in 1989 was that he had gotten compelling proof that the visitors were real. His first impulse was to rush this information to press, but then he stopped, concerned that publication might be interpreted as some kind of signal to the visitors to initiate wider contact. He was worried what this might mean. Not all encounter experiences were good. People were afraid. Strieber himself was afraid." "What has happened to Whitley Strieber is completely without precedent. There has never been an unexplained experience so carefully documented or extensively witnessed by others. He has passed four lie detector tests. He has been examined for many diseases both physical and mental." "Not only is he entirely normal, the proof he advances in this book would convince a jury."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Breakthrough

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John Whalen

Pat Brosseau

Tomer Hanuka

Mike Hawthorne

Un-Men was a short-lived comic book series published from 2007 to 2008 under DC's Vertigo imprint. Written by John Whalen with illustrations by Mike Hawthorne, the series featured the Un-Men, a race of genetically engineered freaks created by mad scientist Anton Arcane in the pages of Swamp Thing #2. This series follows events established in the 1994 Vertigo limited series American Freak: A Tale of the Un-Men which introduced the character of Damien Kane. Kane was heralded as something of an Un-Man messiah because, unlike other generations of Un-Men, he was born with his particular condition and was not created in a laboratory.

Strange is the city of Aberrance, a haven for abnormal people, but stranger still is the plot uncoverd by Department of Energy Agent Kilcrop.

Get Your Freak On!

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Christopher Moore

Indiana

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody inPine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants toplacebos, so naturally -- well, to be accurate, artificially -- business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, thoselonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal seabeast named Steve with a, shall we say, thing for explosiveoil tanker trucks. Suddenly morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is filled with mysterious crimes, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what's wrong and what, if anything, to do about it. Strap yourselves in, ladies and gentlemen. It's Christopher Moore time.

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

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Adrian Barnes

Iowa

Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same golden dream. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. Paul, a writer, continues to sleep while his partner Tanya disintegrates before his eyes, and the new world swallows the old one whole.

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#paperback #fiction #chuckpalahniuk #comedy #weird #choke

Michigan

Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer's disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.

Choke

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Ottessa Moshfegh

Arkansas

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, E! News Online, and many more From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods. While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one. A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher.

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Emily Habeck

Shark Heart

John Fowles

The Collector

Shaun Hamill

A Cosmology of Monsters

National Geographic Kids; National Geographic Kids

🎆 Weird but True books 6,7,8, & By the Numbers

S. M. Wheeler

Sea Change

Nina Laurin

The Last Beautiful Girl

Allie Rowbottom

JELL-O Girls

Scholastic

Weird but true

Charles L. Grant

In a Dark Dream

Warren Ellis

Tales of Human Waste

Corey Henderson, Dan Rollman

The RecordSetter Book of World Records

Mark Z. Danielewski

The Familiar, Volume 1

J. W. Ocker

The Black Slide

Jonathan Maberry

Joe Ledger

Janet Goldenberg

Weird but True

Shaun Hamill

A Cosmology of Monsters

DJ Andeson

Beware of the Supernatural paperback vintage

Karen Russell

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Whitley Strieber

Breakthrough

John Whalen; Pat Brosseau; Tomer Hanuka; Mike Hawthorne

Get Your Freak On!

Christopher Moore

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Adrian Barnes

Nod

Chuck Palahniuk

Choke

Ottessa Moshfegh

Death in Her Hands