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Dead Leaves: 9 Tales From the Witching Season — Kealan Patrick Burke

TITLE: Dead Leaves: 9 Tales From the Witching Season AUTHOR: Kealan Patrick Burke RELEASED: September 18th, 2018 GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke comes the second in his series of seasonal collections. Featuring seven reprints, a brand new story “The Toll”, an introduction, and rounded out by the author’s recommended reading and viewing lists, DEAD LEAVES makes for the perfect autumnal read. Does anyone else have an author (or a few) whose work you’ve...

Blanca & Roja — Anna-Marie McLemore

TITLE: Blanca & Roja AUTHOR: Anna-Marie McLemore RELEASED: October 9th, 2018; Feiwel & Friends GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they’re also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a...

Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories — Evans Light

TITLE: Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories EDITOR: Evans Light RELEASED: September 3rd, 2018; Corpus Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS:Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their first taste of terror, the discovery and overcoming of fears. For those who find they love a good scare, that first taste can grow into a voracious appetite. That might be why you’re looking at this book right now. If so, you’ve come to the right place. Doorbells at...

The Toy Thief — D. W. Gillespie

TITLE: The Toy Thief AUTHOR: D. W. Gillespie RELEASES: October 6th, 2018; Flame Tree Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Jack didn’t know what to call the nameless, skeletal creature that slunk into her house in the dead of night, stealing the very things she loved the most. So she named him The Toy Thief… There’s something in Jack’s past that she doesn’t want to face, an evil presence that forever changed the trajectory of her family. It all began when The...

What if it's Us — Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

TITLE: What if it’s Us AUTHOR: Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera RELEASES: October 9th, 2018; HarperTeen GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend’s things. But...

Priest of Bones (War for the Rose Throne, #1) — Peter McLean

TITLE: Priest of Bones AUTHOR: Peter McLean SERIES: War for the Rose Throne, #1 RELEASES: October 2nd, 2018; Ace Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety finally heads home with Lieutenant Bloody Anne at his side. When he arrives in the Stink, Tomas finds that his empire of crime has been stolen from him while at war. With his gang of Pious Men, Tomas will do whatever it takes to reclaim his businesses. But when he finds...

Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4) — Sarah J. Maas

TITLE: Queen of Shadows AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas SERIES: Throne of Glass, #4 RELEASED: September 1st, 2015; Bloomsbury GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past… She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared...

(Don't) Call Me Crazy — anthology edited by Kelly Jensen

TITLE: (Don’t) Call Me Crazy EDITOR: Kelly Jensen RELEASES: October 2nd, 2018; Algonquin Young Readers GENRE: Nonfiction AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when such a label gets attached to your everyday experiences? In order to understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people. (Don’t)...

The House by the Cemetery — John Everson

TITLE: The House by the Cemetery AUTHOR: John Everson RELEASES: October 6th, 2018; Flame Tree Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch. But rumors won’t stop carpenter Mike Kostner from rehabbing the place as a haunted house attraction. Soon he’ll learn that fresh wood and nails can’t keep decades of rumors down. There are noises in the walls, and fresh blood on the floor: secrets...