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Broadneck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (F)
1 available
FICTION (F)
1 available
Broadneck Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FICTION (F)
1 available
MYSTERY FICTION (F)
1 available
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (F)
1 available
FICTION (F)
1 available
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Glen Burnie Library - Adult Audiobook
CD FICTION (F)
1 available
CD FICTION (F)
1 available
On Shelf
Brooklyn Park Library - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY MYSTERY FICTION (F)
1 available
PLAYAWAY MYSTERY FICTION (F)
1 available
Linthicum Library - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY MYSTERY FICTION (F)
1 available
PLAYAWAY MYSTERY FICTION (F)
1 available
Description
"On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
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Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (B)
1 available
FICTION (B)
1 available
Deale Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (B)
1 available
FICTION (B)
1 available
Discoveries: the Library at the Mall - Adult Fiction
FICTION (B)
1 available
FICTION (B)
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between...
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Checked Out
5 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
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Deale Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
1 available
FICTION (M)
1 available
Linthicum Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
1 available
FICTION (M)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
3 available
FICTION (M)
3 available
Checked Out
22 copies, 92 people are on the wait list.
Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
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Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (S)
1 available
FICTION (S)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (S)
1 available
FICTION (S)
1 available
Description
"Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling...
6) Nightbitch
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Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (Y)
3 available
FICTION (Y)
3 available
Deale Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (Y)
2 available
FICTION (Y)
2 available
Maryland City at Russett Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (Y)
1 available
FICTION (Y)
1 available
Description
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck; her canines look sharper than she remembers. Her husband dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. She struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret, and discovers...
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Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
3 available
FICTION (H)
3 available
Deale Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
1 available
FICTION (H)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
1 available
FICTION (H)
1 available
Checked Out
11 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In...
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Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (G)
1 available
FICTION (G)
1 available
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (G)
1 available
FICTION (G)
1 available
Linthicum Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (G)
1 available
FICTION (G)
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves...
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"Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion: The newbie. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she's sure she'll never find. Zoey: The pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she's broken--or maybe everyone else is. Val: The queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives; a heart made of secrets and...
10) Bunny
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Checked Out
2 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny, " and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
11) Cackle
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Broadneck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
1 available
FICTION (H)
1 available
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
1 available
FICTION (H)
1 available
Severna Park Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
2 available
FICTION (H)
2 available
Description
"From the author of The Return, a darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants, from a witch who might be too good to be true. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She's stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town...
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Deale Library - Teen Graphic Novels
Y FICTION (T)
1 available
Y FICTION (T)
1 available
Edgewater Library - Teen Graphic Novels
Y FICTION (T)
1 available
Y FICTION (T)
1 available
Description
An IndieBound Bestseller
"Squad is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who's ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters."—Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
"Squad is a story fitted with the sharpest teeth that chomps down on the patriarchy, and I adored it with my entire vicious
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Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (G)
2 available
FICTION (G)
2 available
Riviera Beach Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (G)
2 available
FICTION (G)
2 available
Description
"Camille Gardener is a grieving--and angry--mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women--the collective--Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled...
14) Juniper & Thorn
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Brooklyn Park Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (R)
1 available
FICTION (R)
1 available
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (R)
1 available
FICTION (R)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (R)
1 available
FICTION (R)
1 available
Description
"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
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Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
On Shelf
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Audiobook
CD FICTION (K)
1 available
CD FICTION (K)
1 available
Severn Library - Adult Audiobook
CD FICTION (K)
1 available
CD FICTION (K)
1 available
Description
It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre ... She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths - students like herself who lack empathy and can't comprehend...
16) They never learn
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On Shelf
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (F)
1 available
FICTION (F)
1 available
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (F)
1 available
FICTION (F)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (F)
2 available
FICTION (F)
2 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Audiobook
CD FICTION (F)
1 available
CD FICTION (F)
1 available
Description
"Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she's avoided drawing attention to herself - but as she's preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates...
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Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (A)
1 available
FICTION (A)
1 available
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (A)
1 available
FICTION (A)
1 available
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (A)
1 available
FICTION (A)
1 available
Description
When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
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Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (A)
1 available
FICTION (A)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (A)
1 available
FICTION (A)
1 available
Maryland City at Russett Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (A)
1 available
FICTION (A)
1 available
Description
When the final four women in competition for an aloof, if somewhat sleazy, bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they mentally prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and of course, the salacious drama that viewers nationwide tune in to eagerly devour. Each woman came on "The Catch" for her own reasons--brand sponsorships, followers, and yes, even love--and they've all...
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"A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope. Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home. But Chelsea's husband has turned their house into a prison; he has been abusing...
20) Mexican gothic
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Broadneck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
1 available
FICTION (M)
1 available
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
1 available
FICTION (M)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
1 available
FICTION (M)
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemi knows little about the region. Noemi is also an unlikely rescuer: She's a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...