Staff Favorites - 2022 (Adult Fiction - List Two of Two)Like this list

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• Moon Witch, Spider King

  a Novel

  James, Marlon, 1970-

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  Part adventure tale, part chronicle of an indomitable woman who bows to no man, it is a fascinating novel that explores power, personality, and the places where they overlap.

• Back to the Garden

  a Novel

  King, Laurie R.

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  The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California -- and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities within their walls.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fairy Tale

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. (...) when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bone Orchard Mythos. The Passageway

  Lemire, Jeff

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  From the creative team of Gideon Falls and Primordial comes the first book in a bold and ambitious new shared horror universe! When a geologist is sent to a remote lighthouse to investigate strange phenomenon, he finds a seemingly endless pit in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nettle & Bone

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself (...) On her quest, Marra is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sea of Tranquility

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ledge

  McEwan, Stacey

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  In a place known as the Ledge, a civilization is trapped by a vast chasm and sheer mountain face. Rations are small, living is tough and there is no way for anyone to escape without befalling a deathly drop. What's more, every season the people must…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nona the Ninth

  Muir, Tamsyn,

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  The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Enclaves

  a Novel

  Novik, Naomi,

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  The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maid

  a Novel

  Prose, Nita,

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  Molly's orderly life is turned on its head the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself very dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's odd…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hidden Pictures

  Rekulak, Jason,

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  Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell looking after their five-year-old son, Teddy. When Teddy begins to draw disturbing pictures that Mallory…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liberation Day

  Stories

  Saunders, George, 1958-

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  Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

• The Resting Place

  Sten, Camilla, 1992-

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  Inheriting a house tucked away in the Swedish woods from her cruel grandmother, Eleanor, seeking the truth about her grandmother's murder and the killer, soon regrets disturbing what rests in this place with a dark past.

• Sundial

  Ward, Catriona

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  All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. Far from her childhood home, Sundial, hidden deep in the wild Mojave Desert. But beneath the veneer, Rob is terrified for her oldest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

  Wiseman, Ellen Marie,

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  Six years after her twin sister's death, 16-year-old Sage discovers a shocking secret, her sister didn't die, she was committed to Willowbrook State School until she recently went missing, and, determined to find her, Sage walks through its doors,…Read moreRead more of this annotation