08/12/2026
🤔What do social critique, mental health, ghost towns, small towns, horror and the 90s have in common? Not that much at first glance, but creative answers are welcome!
Otherwise, all these themes come together in our latest installment of newly released book titles . . . 📚
Which one tempts you?
UNDER THE FALLS by Richard Russo, author of "Empire Falls", returns with a spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends.
THE HILL IN THE DARK GROVE by Liam Higginson is a gripping debut, steeped in Welsh folklore. A husband and wife living in the beautiful but isolated mountains of Snowdonia stumble upon a buried Neolithic ruin--awakening a mysterious, ancient presence with its own dark designs.
In RELIQUARY by Hannah Whitten, a young woman is lured to her late fiancé's remote island estate--only to uncover eerie family secrets, a haunting past, and a monstrous hunger stirring beneath the sea in this deliciously atmospheric horror debut.
BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by V.E. Schwab is a genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from the author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Now in paperback with a new short story!
THREE TENSES by Ed Park is an elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragments, both real and invented, forming a portrait of a creative life mined from forgotten memories of the 90's..
SUNRISE by Téa Obreht is an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried: 100 years, 3 lives and 1 ghost town.
EXPOSURES by Lily Williams is an honest and heartwarming graphic novel account of what it's like living with OCD, and the courage it takes to confront your deepest fears.
ON RESISTANCE by Curtis White, the "most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" (Elle Magazine) comes a hands-on, don't-lose-hope study of how writers, painters, musicians, and other cultural figures respond to fascism. AND. . . White is a local resident who will be joining us for an author event on September 24th!
