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Acquired Taste by Clay McLeod Chapman

They're feeding on you too.

A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one.

From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns; from the claustrophobia of the Covid-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears of parenthood, addiction and political divisions and makes them uniquely his own.

Packed full of humanity, humour and above all, relentless creeping dread, Acquired Taste is a timely descent into the mind of one of modern horror's finest authors.

A Killer Wedding by Joan O'Leary

Christine can’t believe her luck. The iconic Gloria Beaufort, founder of the billion-dollar beauty empire Glo, has personally chosen her to cover her grandson’s wedding for Bespoke, the cult fashion magazine that every A-list bride dreams of being featured in. A career-making scoop and a free trip to a castle turned five-star hotel on the Emerald Isle? It feels too good to be true…

Because it is.

Gloria is found dead on the very first morning of the celebratory weekend, and her entire family wants to keep her death a secret and for the wedding to march on. When Gloria’s heirs issue a chilling warning to Christine to keep things quiet, she can’t help but wonder if one of them is guilty. There’s the son who’s hiding a damaging lawsuit; the resentful daughter-in-law; the grandson who’s had a few too many run-ins with the law; his ambitious wife who’s hiding more than one secret; and Gloria’s favorite grandchild, the picture-perfect groom. As Christine navigates a world where glamour masks grimy secrets and everyone she meets is a suspect, she realizes that among this glitzy elite, nothing is as it seems.

A Matter of Pedigree by Leslie Meier

Carole Capobianco has always counted her blessings, but it’s even more fun now that she and her husband Frank are finally making serious money, thanks to Frank’s newly patented Bye-Bye Toilet. With the kids finally on their own, Carole and Frank are empty-nesters, which will give her uninterrupted time to add to her impressive shoe collection—and lavish care on Poopsie, her beloved, very spoiled Brittany spaniel. The cherry on top is a hefty bid on a luxury co-op in a prestige building . . .

But that dream is quickly flushed when the offer is refused by venture capitalist Hosea Brown. Hearing the claim that the Capobiancos won’t fit into their wealthy, snooty community, Frank is outraged enough to roar something about killing that “old Yankee” on his way out the door. Three months later, Carole is shocked by the news that Hosea has been bludgeoned to death.

When Carole learns Hosea was one of the backers of a big new construction project for which Frank’s company has also been contracted, she’s worried. And that worry grows with every new twist in the case that’s discovered. Armed with her favorite Jimmy Choos and her beloved, if quirky, Poopsie, Carole sets out to clear Frank’s name—and just maybe save their lives . . .

The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin

A child who ran from the forest.
A woman who must return to it

Growing up with her younger siblings in the unforgiving New Zealand bush, Effie believed their parents had cut them off from civilization because they loved Nature. She never suspected that their reasons might be more menacing. After witnessing a terrifying episode of violence, she escaped the wilderness to forge a life for herself halfway across the globe.

Now, when she learns the only witness to a murder is a little girl who looks just like her, Effie is compelled to return to the scene of her troubled childhood, where the secrets of her upbringing and the terrors of her past come rushing back to the surface. In order to find out once and for all what became of her family—and possibly help this mysterious girl who could be her younger self—Effie must face her greatest fears once more.

Marrow by Samantha Shea

The day Oona was kicked out of her mother’s coven, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft that was her birthright. Years later, she's carved out an ordinary life with her husband, though she is filled with a longing she can barely name. If she could only become a mother, then—according to island lore—she will come into her magic.

But after years of being unable to carry a pregnancy to term, Oona begins to feel desperate. Without the money to seek medical treatment, she decides she must return to the rugged, windswept island where she was raised—and to her dark, enigmatic mother . . . a witch who gives childless women the chance to become mothers.

Oona returns under the cover of anonymity, hoping for an answer. But, despite a celebrity clientele and a long wait-list, there are dark forces at work on the island, and as her time there grows more harrowing, the truth threatens to come to light. How far will Oona go to access the power her mother commands?

Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parents' messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house.

After Alex’s sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother’s claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother’s book, a sinister presence in the house manifests, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio’s beautiful life to its very foundation.

A Murder in Paris by Matthew Blake

Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London. One night, she receives an urgent call from the police at the Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s famous Left Bank. Olivia’s French grandmother, Josephine Benoit, has appeared at the Lutetia in a distressed state claiming she once committed a murder in the hotel at the end of the Second World War.

Traveling to Paris, Olivia finds her grandmother confused. But Josephine insists it is a recovered memory from the past. More disturbingly, hotel records show that a woman did die in that room of the Lutetia in 1945. Could her story really be true?

As people start dying in the present day, Olivia is plunged into a race against time to uncover the truth about Josephine and what really happened all those years ago. Set among the glamorous streets of Paris, this addictive thriller asks: what if a memory could get you killed?

No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams

In one Halloween obsessed Midwestern town, everyone’s on red alert after a local politician goes missing. Little do they know it’s only the beginning.

It’s been close to twenty years since forensic pathologist Dolores Hawthorne left her hometown of Little Horton, Wisconsin. The town is famous for its Halloween celebrations, but also its history of violent deaths linked to the holiday. To Dolores, it’s the place she fled, family, bad memories, and all. Until the FBI calls to tell her that her father--the former mayor turned US Senator--is missing under mysterious circumstances.

Some people count to ten to wake up from a nightmare. Dolores always counts the bones of her head instead: sphenoid, frontal, lacrimal. But no matter how many times she counts them, it doesn’t change the fact that her father is missing, that his final words of warning to her were to trust no one, and that now, the rest of her family is giving Dolores a chilling welcome. With Halloween fast approaching, Dolores must face the past she left behind before it’s too late.

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favorite criminal.

But when Elizabeth meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, she finds the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. And when Nick disappears without a trace, his cagey business partner becomes the gang’s next stop. It seems the duo have something valuable—something worth killing for.

Joyce’s daughter, Joanna, jumps into the fray to help the gang as they seek answers: Has someone kidnapped Nick? And what’s this uncrackable code they keep hearing about? Plunged back into action once more, can the four friends solve the puzzle and a murder in time?

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Ethics

BF319.5.F4 S76 2015 Thanks for the feedback : the science and art of receiving feedback well (even when it is off base, unfair, poorly delivered, and frankly, you're not in the mood) / Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen

BF575.H56 M26 2019 Everything is f*cked : a book about hope / Mark Manson

BF637.E53 S47 2024 Tiny pep talks : bite-size encouragement for life's annoying, stressful, and flat-out lousy moments / Paula Skaggs and Josh Linden

BF723.A4 A43 2019 A little spot of anger / written & illustrated by Diane Alber

BJ1533.G4 A594 2024 Infectious generosity : the ultimate idea worth spreading / Chris Anderson

BJ1533.K5 A538 2019 A little spot of kindness / written & illustrated by Diane Alber

BL432 .W555 2021 Miracles of our own making : a history of paganism / Liz Williams

BL783 .F79 2023 Mythos : stories from Ancient Greece / as retold by Stephen Fry

BS195 .E64 2007 The Holy Bible : English Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments

BS655 .B73 2024 God's little astronomer / written by Tina Cho

D: World History

DS125.3.S485 A3 2024 We could have been friends, my father and I : a Palestinian memoir / Raja Shehadeh

E & F: American History & Western Hemisphere

E179 .D525 2024 The memory palace : true short stories of the past / Nate DiMeo

E441 .A5758 2023 An American story / Kwame Alexander ; art by Dare Coulter

E98.P5 J33 2022 Restoring the kinship worldview : indigenous voices introduce 28 precepts for rebalancing life on planet Earth / Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez, PhD

F1234.V17 S25 2023 Jovita wore pants : the story of a Mexican freedom fighter / by Aida Salazar ; art by Molly Mendoza

F1788 .D58 1976 The Cuban revolution : a critical perspective / by Sam Dolgoff

F264.C4 E59 2001 Charlotte, North Carolina / Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

GN476.73 .K563 2024 The serviceberry : abundance and reciprocity in the natural world / Robin Wall Kimmerer

GT4985 .C5475 2003 Stories behind the great traditions of Christmas / Ace Collins

GT4987.43 .H39 2024 Victorian Christmas : traditional recipes, decorations, activities, and carols / Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

GV1201.8 .A85 2024 Cosplay and the dressing of identity / Vivian Asimos

H: Social Sciences: Business, Economics, Sociology

HC110.P6 E344 2023 The injustice of place : uncovering the legacy of poverty in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy J. Nelson

HD6519.M45 H66 1993 Southern labor and Black civil rights : organizing Memphis workers / Michael K. Honey

HD9459.W67 C76 2004 Catch! : a fishmonger's guide to greatness / by Cyndi Crother and the crew of the World Famous Pike Place Fish print & online

HF5549.5.I6 P37 2024 Interviewology : the new science of interviewing / Anna Papalia

HG3711.U6 O53 2024 Dignity not debt : an abolitionist approach to economic justice / Chrystin Ondersma

HM1106 .H3674 2019 A tribe called bliss : break through superficial friendships, create real connections, reach your highest potential / Lori Harder

HM1126 .B49 2016 Talking stick : peacemaking as a spiritual path / Stephan V. Beyer

HN25 .C48 2017 How will you measure your life? / Clayton M. Christensen

HQ792.U5 H23 2024 The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness / Jonathan Haidt

When the levees broke: a requiem in four acts / HBO Documentary Films ; directed by Spike Lee ; producers, Sam Pollard, Spike Lee ; 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks online

Teach us all: segregation for a new generation / presented by the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes ; written and directed by Sonia Lowman online

The mask you live in / the Representation Project presents, in association with Regina K. Scully, a Jennifer Siebel Newsom film online

K: Law

KF2910.D3 B44 2024 Ethics and law in dental hygiene / Kristin Minihan-Anderson

L: Education

LB2341 .M366 2016 Becoming a student-ready college : a new culture of leadership for student success / Tia Brown McNair, Susan Albertine, Michelle Asha Cooper, Nicole McDonald, Thomas Major, Jr. print and online