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Josh Malerman (Bird Box) brings a realistic and scary imagining about every child’s nightmare-  a very real and very scary monster in the closet. After the usual routine 'Good nights' from her parents, a voice oozes from the closet… “Can I go inside your heart,” says the Other Mommy to 8 year old Bela.

Amanda Peters is a Canadian writer of Mi’kmaq and settler descent, who lives in Nova Scotia. The Berry Pickers (2023), her first novel, was inspired by stories of her father's family, who, like so many other First Nations' people, faced hardships and challenges as they struggled to survive within a larger post-colonial culture.

If you have ever loved fairy tales, cozy magical stories or wished you could walk through a wardrobe door to a new realm, you will want to read The Lost Story (2024) by Meg Shaffer.

Oh look, another fantasy, but with some romance! Girl, Serpent, Thorn (2020) by Melissa Bashardoust is a dramatic, original fairytale of a princess cursed with a poisonous touch, and locked away in a royal palace. There's a lot to this once you get passed the initial exposition, and it's well worth it.

Written by Justin W, Tech Center

Signe Pike’s third installment of the The Lost Queen Series, The Shadowed Land (2024), is a wonderfully researched story based on the real people from the time of King Arthur.

Magdalena Herrera has a secret. 

Yorick, a struggling bookseller in Paris, receives a mysterious invitation to a Titanic Survivors Club, although he never even set sail on the ship. The motley assortment of members turns out to be those who dodged fate by not boarding the Titanic, the first meeting turns to talk of books and soon The Titanic Survivors Book Club (2024) is formed with Yorick at the helm.

An Orc, once mercenary, decides to settle down and use her spoils to open a coffee shop, a drink the town of Thune hasn't yet tasted.  Legends and Lattes (2022) by Travis Baldree is low-stakes, high-fantasy, wholesome adventure that'll have you feeling like drinking coffee alongside it!

Written by Jason W, Tech Center

The Witchstone (2024) by Henry Neff is a crazy, funny and fabulous horror read that leaves you cheering for...everyone? Laszlo, an eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s laziest Curse Keeper, oversees the miserable Drakeford Curse from his office under Midtown.

Author Stacy Sivinski debuts with a sweet and cozy fantasy with witchy vibes, set in 1870s Chicago. In The Crescent Moon Tearoom (2024) we meet the Quigley triplets, orphaned clairvoyants living a gentle, spice-scented life in their fortune telling tearoom. But it is all about to get turned upside down.

Get ready for an adventure with Amy, Rosie, and Steve as they band together to—you guessed it—solve murders. In this witty mystery, Richard Osman takes this crew across the world, one step ahead of a killer or two. We Solve Murders (2024) starts with bodyguard Amy guarding famous author Rosie who has recently received a death threat.

I really enjoyed listening to Whale Fall (2024) by Elizabeth O’Connor, and at just 4 hours, you can finish it one afternoon or on a weekend road trip!