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Of Monsters and Mainframes
Barbara Truelove
Spaceships arenāt programmed to seek revengeābut for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception.
Demeter just wants to do her shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dyingāand not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans.
To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evilāDracula.
The queer love child of pulp horror and āclassic āsci-fi, Of Monsters and āMainframes āis a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of societyās monstersāand explores the many types of friendship that make us human.
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The Hitchhikerās Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
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Sisters in the Wind
Angeline Boulley
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeperās Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed comes a daring new mystery about a foster teen claiming her heritage on her own terms.
Ever since Lucy Smithās father died five years ago, āhomeā has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything waiting for her as a āward of the state.ā But when the sharp-eyed and kind Mr. Jameson with an interest in her case comes looking for her, Lucy wonders if hiding from her past will ever truly keep her safe.
Five years in the foster system has taught her to be cautious and smart. But she wants to believe Mr. Jameson and his āfriend-not-friend,ā a tall and fierce-looking woman who say they want to look after her.
They also tell Lucy the truth her father hid from her: She is Ojibwe; she has ā had ā a sister, and more siblings; a grandmother whoād look after her and a home where she would be loved.
But Lucy is being followed. The past has destroyed any chance of normal she has had, and now the secrets sheās hiding will swallow her whole and take away the future she always dreamed of.
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The Wayfinder: A Novel
Adam Johnson
A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.The Wayfinder is an epic, sweeping novel set in the Polynesian islands of the South Pacific during the height of the Tuāi Tonga Empire. At its heart is KÅrero, a young girl chosen to save her people from the brink of starvation. Her quest takes her from her remote island home on a daring seafaring journey across a vast ocean empire built on power, consumption, and bloodshed.With the grandeur of Wolf Hall, Shogun, and War and Peace, The Wayfinder immerses readers in a world untouched by Western influence, evoking the lost art of oral storytelling. Far from a conventional swashbuckling adventure, it conjures a world of outrigger canoes and celestial navigation, weaving a narrative that is as much about survival and self-discovery as it is about the sweeping history of the Tongan people.In this monumental literary work, Adam Johnson explores themes of indigeneity, ecological balance, and the resilience of humanity in the face of scarcity, marking the novel as a profound meditation on both individual and cultural legacy.
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You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Andrew Joseph White
Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia.
Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. Itās an offer that none refuse.
Crane is grateful. Among his hiveās followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that wonāt destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnantāand the hive demands the childās birth, no matter the costāCraneās desperation to make it stop will drive the community that saved him into a devastating spiral that can only end in blood.
You Werenāt Meant to Be Human is a deeply personal horror; a visceral statement about the lives of marginalized people in a hostile world, echoing the works of Stephen Graham Jones and Eric LaRocca.
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House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another storyāof creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you wonāt know whyā¦Iām thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. Itās always there. Always. Jake once said, āSometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you canāt fake a thought.ā And hereās what Iām thinking: I donāt want to be here. In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, Iām Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first pageā¦and never lets you go.
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This isn't Disney's little mermaid! A collection of horror, dark fiction, and gothic romances featuring mermaids.
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Creepy crawling vines, sentient mushrooms, or a killer forest; no matter what shape they take, plants and fungi play a main part in these horror novels.
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Outcasts, rebels, and misfits unite in magical worlds. Here, strangers become chosen family, facing every challenge together and proving that home is found, not given.
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