FICTION
The Crown Conspiracy by Connie Mann
The media spotlight is the last thing art thief and forger Sophie Williams needs. But when one of three long-missing royal portraits turns up in Germany at her best friend’s art gallery, the spotlight is exactly what she gets. Since the tragic deaths of Princess Johanna of Neuhansberg and her two children 40 years ago, the whereabouts of these portraits have been unknown. Then Sophie’s best friend vanishes, and a rumor about hidden treasure connected to the paintings surfaces, seemingly confirmed by a cryptic message on the back of the first canvas. Convinced that finding the other two portraits will lead to her friend, Sophie begins a twisty investigation that pits her against other ruthless treasure hunters.
In the Mad Mountains by Joe R. Lansdale
A sinister blues recording pressed on vinyl in blood conjures lethal shadows with its unearthly wails. In order to rescue Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn traverses the shifting horrors of the aptly named Dread Island. In the weird Wild West, Reverend Jebidiah Mercer rides into a possessed town to confront the unspeakable in the crawling sky. Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin uncovers the gruesome secrets of both the blue lightning bug and the Necronomicon. Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale’s twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying thread.
Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton
Sarita has been watched over by a guardian angel her entire life. She calls him Angelo, and keeps him a secret. But secrets can’t stay buried forever. When Angelo murders someone she loves, Sarita begins to see what’s really been lurking in the shadows surrounding her. And she will have to embrace the evil within if she hopes to make it out alive. Johnny Compton, critically acclaimed author of The Spite House and master of dread, takes you on a terrifying race of one woman against the hordes of hell.
The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds. For one unnamed courier of the Names Committee, the task of delivering new words preserves her place in a world that fears her. She is forced to flee her committee and seek her long-lost sister. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the shadows, her search for the truth of her past opens the door to a revolutionary future.
NONFICTION
Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Robert Skidelsky
Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother. Artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster. This book tells the story of our fractured relationship with machines from humanity’s first tools down to the present and into the future. It raises the crucial question of why some parts of the world developed a “machine civilization” and not others, and traces the interactions between capitalism and technology, and between science and religion, in the making of the modern world.
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe by Noel Malcolm
The history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice and elsewhere, they brought to light an extraordinary world of early modern sexual activity, extending from city streets to monasteries and Mediterranean galleys. Noel Malcolm’s masterly study solves this and many other problems, by doing something which no previous scholar has attempted: giving a truly pan-European account of the whole phenomenon of male-male sexual relations in the early modern period. Original, critical, lucidly written and deeply researched, this work will change the way we think about the history of homosexuality in early modern Europe.
Your New Life with Adult Children by Gary Chapman, PhD & Ross Campbell, MD
Your kids will always be your kids. The trick is figuring out how to adapt to the new phases in that parent-child relationship. No question, it can be tricky. And if you fail to navigate that transition well, the result will be stress, alienation, and maybe a broken relationship. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In Your New Life with Adult Children, Dr. Gary Chapman teams up with clinical psychiatrist Dr. Ross Campbell to provide the insights you need when your child moves into adulthood. The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children, as well as stories from adult children who relate what works best for them. Stop wondering how to connect with your adult child. Instead, learn to love them in the ways they so desperately want.
Fandom Analytics: Creating and Harnessing Consumer and Cultural Passion by Michael Lewis
The success of modern sports and entertainment is driven by organizations’ ability to create and manage fandom. This book explores fandom from a marketing perspective providing a multidisciplinary framework for understanding, measuring, and growing fandom. It provides a fandom analytics framework for creating and managing fandom and identifies the tech and demographics that are changing fandom’s structure and societal role. It goes beyond understanding the foundations of fandom by demonstrating how marketing tools may be employed to value and manage fandom assets. It is designed for scholars, students, and academics interested in sports and entertainment marketing and analytics.
CHILDREN’S
Halloween is Coming! by Cal Everett
Halloween is Coming, didn’t you hear? Halloween is Coming … Halloween is here! Embrace the spooky season of fall as leaves change, pumpkins grow, and doorbells ring from trick-or-treaters.
Ages 4-8
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