Staff Picks
Can't Get Enough of Stranger Things?
- Sarah C.
- Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Collection
Are you suffering from Stranger Things binge withdrawal? Do you need more of that weird, spooky goodness in your life? Binge on these titles instead!
The Jumbies
Published in 2015
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Broken Monsters
Published in 2014
Detective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays that fuse the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings.
Suspicious Minds
Published in 2019
"A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things. It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington. But the world is changing, and Terry isn't content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code named MKULTRA. Unmarked vans, a remote lab deep in the woods, mind-altering substances administered by tight lipped researchers . . . and a mystery the young and restless Terry is determined to uncover. But behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory--and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner--lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined. To face it, she'll need the help of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious the world doesn't know she exists--a young girl with unexplainable, superhuman powers and a number instead of a name: 008. Amid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war--one where the human mind is the battlefield"-- Provided by publisher.
The Girl with All the Gifts
Published in 2014
Not every gift is a blessing. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl. Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, The girl with all the gifts is the most powerful and affecting thriller you will read this year.
Ready Player One
A Novel
Published in 2011
"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review
The Library at Mount Char
Published in 2015
After she and a dozen other children found them being raised by "Father," a cruel man with mysterious powers, Carolyn and her "siblings" begin to think he might be God. When Father disappears, they square off against each other to determine who will inherit his library, which may hold the power to all Creation. As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come she has a plaN. The only trouble is that in the war to make a new God, she's forgotten to protect the things that make her human....
It
A Novel
Published in 2016
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
Watchers
Published in 2008
Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.
La Belle Sauvage
Published in 2017
Shares the story of how Lyra Belacqua and her daemon Pantalaimon came to be living at Jordan College.
The Cabin at the End of the World
A Novel
Published in 2018
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"-- Provided by publisher.
Paper Girls. Vol. 01
Published in 2016
In the early hours after Halloween on 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time.Suburban drama and supernatural mysteries collide in this series about nostalbia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood -- page 4 of cover.