In the Woods By: Tana French 0143113496 Published by: Penguin (Non-Classics) Genre: Pages: 464 Author’s Website: http://tanafrench.com/ Author’s Twitter: Synopsis {from the author’s site} As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children, gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled shoes, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.…
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Freakshow by Bryan Smith
The Freakshow By: Bryan Smith 0843958278 Published by: Leisure Books Genre: Pages: 324 Author’s Website: http://thehorrorofbryansmith.blogspot.com/ Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bryansmith Recommendable for people who: like bizarro, splatterpunk, horror Synopsis {from the back cover}: The Flaherty Brothers Traveling Carnivale and Freakshow has rolled into Pleasant Hills, Tennessee, and the quiet little town will never be the same. In fact, much of the town won’t survive. At first glance, the freakshow looks like so many others–lurid, rundown, decrepit. But this freakshow is definitely one of a kind… The townspeople can’t resist the…
Read Morethe Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Help By: Kathryn Stockett 0399155341 Published by: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Genre: fiction Pages: 464 Author’s Website: http://www.kathrynstockett.com/ Author’s Twitter: n/a Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kathryn-Stockett-THE-HELP/73669783277?ref=ts MOVIE TIE-IN: In production by Dreamworks AWARDS: 2010 Indies Choice Book of the Year – Adult Debut 2010 Southern Independent Booksellers Association’s Book of the Year for Fiction BookClub pick: January 2011 the Synopsis {from the author’s website}: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it…
Read MoreBare Bones by Kathy Reichs
Bare Bones : A Novel By: Kathy Reichs 0743233468 Published by: Scribner Genre: Pages: 320 Author’s Website: http://www.kathyreichs.com/ Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/kathyreichs Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KathyReichs Recommendable for people who: enjoy mystery, crime drama, suspense, and the tv show BONES. 🙂 Synopsis {from the authors site}: She works with the dead, but she works for the living. “Down time” is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan’s vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a…
Read MoreBeyond the Body Farm by Dr Bill Bass
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science By: Bill Bass 0060875291 Published by: William Morrow Genre: Pages: 304 Author’s Website: http://www.jeffersonbass.com/ Author’s Twitter: n/a Recommendable for people who: are interested in True Crime, “csi type” NON-FICTION, educational, forensics Synopsis {from the authors website}: In Beyond the Body Farm, readers will follow Bass as he explores the depths of an East Tennessee lake with a twenty-first-century sonar system, in a quest for an airplane that disappeared with two people…
Read MoreThe Limit by Kristen Landon
Book Received: Jan 11 2011 Book Reviewed: Jan 18 2011 The Limit By: Kristen Landon 1442402717 Published by: Aladdin Genre: Pages: 304 Author’s Website: http://www.kristenlandon.com/ Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristen-Landon/44925881848 Recommendable for: Young readers ages 10-15 who enjoy suspense Synopsis: An eighth grade girl was taken today . . . With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn’t let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the…
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter By: Seth Grahame-Smith 0446563080 Published by: Grand Central Publishing Genre: Pages: 336 Author’s Website: n/a Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/sethgs Recommendable for people who: Like Vampire stories, Historical Fiction, Lincoln Brief synopsis: Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy…" she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually…
Read MoreThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover) By: Neil Gaiman (Author) Dave Mckean (Illustrator) Published by: HarperCollins Genre: YA Fiction Pages: 312 Author’s Website: http://www.neilgaiman.com/ Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/neilhimself Recommendable for people who: enjoy fiction, YA, ghost tales Watch Gaiman Read this entire book! http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx Winner of the 2009 Newbery Medal, Hugo Award, and the Carnegie Medal Synopsis: {from Gaiman’s website} Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he’s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned…
Read MoreHorns: A Novel by Joe Hill
Book Read: March 25, 2010 Horns: A Novel By: Joe Hill 0061147958 Published by: William Morrow Genre: Pages: 384 Author’s Website: http://joehillfiction.com Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/joe_hill Recommendable for people who: People who like fantasy/thriller… Good vs. Evil fiction Synopsis: {from Joe Hills website} At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental…
Read MoreThe Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing
The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing By: Allen C. Kupfer 0765310120 Published by: Forge Books Genre: Historical Fiction, Vampire Pages: 208 Author’s Website: Author’s Twitter: Recommendable for people who: I dunno, people who read everything on vampires maybe. Van Helsing buffs. Synopsis: Professor Abraham Van Helsing was the fictional creation of Bram Stoker for his dark work of fantasyDracula …or was he? Fragments of a recently discovered journal suggest otherwise. For the first time, in his own words, the legendary vampire hunter tells his own story – his…
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