VPL -Books Just For You -Urban Fantasy, Thrillers, and WWII FictionLike this list

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• Annihilation

  VanderMeer, Jeff

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  Winner of the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Suggested because you like Fringe. First in a trilogy.

• Billy Boyle

  a World War II Mystery

  Benn, James R.

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  The first book in a mystery series structured around less well known aspects of WWII.

• Bitter Seeds

  Tregillis, Ian

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  Britain turns to warlocks to counter super soldiers engineered by German scientists in this novel of a second world war gone strange. Suggested if you don't mind something that is darker then Fringe. First in a trilogy.

• The Chronicles of Amber

  Zelazny, Roger

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  The first five books of The Chronicles of Amber collected in two volumes. Suggested because you like The Dark Tower.

• Code Name Hélène

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel

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  A historical novel based on the real life exploits of journalist turned resistance fighter and OSS agent Nancy Wake.

• Coraline

  Gaiman, Neil

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  Suggested because you like The Nightmare Before Christmas.

• Dark Matter

  Crouch, Blake

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  Suggested because you like thrillers and the TV show Fringe. Also consider Recursion and Wayward Pines (which has been adapted as a TV series) by the same author.

• The Day of the Jackal

  Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-

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  Originally published in 1971 this is a tension filled classic thriller.

• Eye of the Needle

  Follett, Ken

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  Another tension filled classic thriller. Suggested because you like WWII fiction.

• A Night in the Lonesome October

  Zelazny, Roger

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  Fictional archetypes such as a mad doctor, a vampire, and a great detective compete in a "game" to determine the fate of the world in this story narrated by one character's canine familiar. Suggested because you like The Nightmare Before Christmas.

• Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders

  Arlen, Tessa

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  An air raid warden from London finds herself investigating a series of murders after returning to her home village.

• Red Burning Sky

  Young, Tom, 1962-

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  A historical novel based on Operation Halyard, a high risk mission to rescue hundreds of downed airman from German occupied Yugoslavia.

• Relic

  Preston, Douglas J.

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  Included as an eBook because the library does not currently have it as a print book. First in a series.

• Rivers of London

  Aaronovitch, Ben, 1964-

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  Suggested because you like Fringe. A London police officer is recruited into a department that deals with the supernatural.

• Storm Front

  Butcher, Jim, 1971-

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  First book of The Dresden Files. Suggested because you like The Dark Tower and the TV show Fringe.

• A Woman of No Importance

  the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

  Purnell, Sonia

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  A historical novel based on the exploits of real life secret agent Virgina Hall.