BOOK SUGGESTIONS
ROUND 2
THIN SPACE
• EVER SINCE THE CAR ACCIDENT THAT KILLED HIS IDENTICAL TWIN
BROTHER, MARSHALL WINDSOR HAS BEEN CONSUMED WITH GUILT AND
CRIPPLED BY THE SECRETS OF THAT FATEFUL NIGHT. HE HAS ONLY ONE
CHANCE TO MAKE AMENDS AND SET THINGS RIGHT. HE MUST FIND A
THIN SPACE—A MYTHICAL POINT WHERE THE BARRIER BETWEEN THIS
WORLD AND THE NEXT IS THIN ENOUGH FOR A PERSON TO STEP
THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE.
BUT WHEN A NEW GIRL MOVES INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, INTO THE
EXACT SAME HOUSE MARSH IS SURE HOLDS A THIN SPACE, SHE MAY BE
THE KEY—OR THE UNRAVELING OF ALL HIS SECRETS.
AS THEY GET CLOSER TO FINDING A THIN SPACE—AND CLOSER TO EACH
OTHER—MARCH MUST DECIDE ONCE AND FOR ALL HOW FAR HE’S
WILLING TO GO TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE LIVING…AND THE DEAD.
MADE FOR YOU
• EVA TILLING WAKES UP IN THE HOSPITAL TO DISCOVER SHE POSSESSES A
STRANGE NEW SKILL—THE ABILITY TO FORESEE PEOPLE'S DEATHS WHEN
THEY TOUCH HER. WHILE SHE IS RECOVERING FROM HER HIT-AND-RUN
ACCIDENT, NATE, AN OLD FLAME, REAPPEARS, AND THE TWO MUST
TRAVERSE THEIR ROCKY PAST AS THEY FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE EVA'S
POWER TO KEEP THEIR FRIENDS—AND EACH OTHER—FROM FALLING INTO
THE HANDS OF A KILLER.
THE FALL
• MADELINE USHER HAS BEEN BURIED ALIVE. THE DOOMED HEROINE COMES
TO THE FORE IN THIS EERIE REIMAGINING OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S CLASSIC
SHORT STORY "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER."
• MADELINE AWAKES IN A COFFIN. AND SHE WAS PUT THERE BY HER OWN
TWIN BROTHER. BUT HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? IN SHORT, NONCHRONOLOGICAL CHAPTERS, BETHANY GRIFFIN MASTERFULLY SPINS A
HAUNTING AND POWERFUL TALE OF THIS TRAGIC HEROINE AND THE
CURSE ON THE USHER FAMILY. THE HOUSE ITSELF IS ALIVE, AND IT WILL
NEVER LET MADELINE ESCAPE, DRIVING HER TO MADNESS JUST AS IT HAS
ALL OF HER ANCESTORS. BUT SHE WON'T LET IT HAVE HER BROTHER,
RODERICK. SHE'LL DO EVERYTHING IN HER POWER TO SAVE HIM—AND TRY
TO SAVE HERSELF—EVEN IF IT MEANS BRINGING THE HOUSE DOWN
AROUND THEM.
SKELLIG
• MICHAEL WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING INTO A NEW HOUSE.
BUT NOW HIS BABY SISTER IS ILL, HIS PARENTS ARE FRANTIC, AND DOCTOR
DEATH HAS COME TO CALL. MICHAEL FEELS HELPLESS. THEN HE STEPS INTO
THE CRUMBLING GARAGE AND ENCOUNTERS A STRANGE BEING WHO
CHANGES HIS WORLD FOREVER.
THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA
LAVENDER
• FOOLISH LOVE APPEARS TO BE THE ROUX FAMILY BIRTHRIGHT, AN
OMINOUS FORECAST FOR ITS MOST RECENT PROGENY, AVA LAVENDER.
AVA — IN ALL OTHER WAYS A NORMAL GIRL — IS BORN WITH THE
WINGS OF A BIRD.
• IN A QUEST TO UNDERSTAND HER PECULIAR DISPOSITION AND A
GROWING DESIRE TO FIT IN WITH HER PEERS, SIXTEEN-YEAR OLD AVA
VENTURES INTO THE WIDER WORLD, ILL-PREPARED FOR WHAT SHE MIGHT
DISCOVER AND NAIVE TO THE TWISTED MOTIVES OF OTHERS. OTHERS LIKE
THE PIOUS NATHANIEL SORROWS, WHO MISTAKES AVA FOR AN ANGEL
AND WHOSE OBSESSION WITH HER GROWS UNTIL THE NIGHT OF THE
SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION. THAT NIGHT, THE SKIES OPEN UP, RAIN
AND FEATHERS FILL THE AIR, AND AVA’S QUEST AND HER FAMILY’S SAGA
BUILD TO A DEVASTATING BUILDUP.
WAKE
• FOR SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD JANIE, GETTING SUCKED INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S
DREAMS IS GETTING OLD. ESPECIALLY THE FALLING DREAMS, THE NAKEDBUT-NOBODY- NOTICES DREAMS, AND THE SEX-CRAZED DREAMS. JANIE'S
SEEN ENOUGH FANTASY BOOTY TO LAST HER A LIFETIME.
SHE CAN'T TELL ANYBODY ABOUT WHAT SHE DOES -- THEY'D NEVER
BELIEVE HER, OR WORSE, THEY'D THINK SHE'S A FREAK. SO JANIE LIVES ON
THE FRINGE, CURSED WITH AN ABILITY SHE DOESN'T WANT AND CAN'T
CONTROL.
THEN SHE FALLS INTO A GRUESOME NIGHTMARE, ONE THAT CHILLS HER TO
THE BONE. FOR THE FIRST TIME, JANIE IS MORE THAN A WITNESS TO
SOMEONE ELSE'S TWISTED PSYCHE. SHE IS A PARTICIPANT....