Friday, April 10, 2020

Quarantine Edition Part 4:

The Night Crossing by: Robert Masello
Fiction: Mystery, Paranormal, E-book
Bram Stoker saves the life of a drowning women and gets sucked into a world of mysteries with cursed objects, magic, mummies and unbelievable horrors.

Noir by: Christopher Moore
Fiction: Mystery, Humor, 339 pages
Just your classic noir book about a down on his luck bartender, a dame named after cheese, and aliens crass landing in Area 51.

Firefly Original Graphic Novel: The Sting by: Delilah S. Dawson , Joss Whedon art by: Pius Bak
Fiction: Graphic Novel, Pop Culture, 128 pages
The crew gets stuck on a planet.  The ladies decide to visit a local spa and end up being forced to pull a heist with Saffron.

Maids of Misfortune by: M. Louisa Locke
Fiction: Mystery, Historic, E-book
Annie, a young widow, owns a boarding house in Victorian San Francisco.  She also gives people financial advice as a clairvoyant named Madam Sibyl.  When one of her clients ends up dead, apparently by suicide, having wrote her into his will, but with all his money missing, she is sure it was murder. So she decides that she will find out who killed him, and where the money went.

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by: Caitlin Doughty
Non-Fiction: History, Science, 248 pages
On different ideas on death and how deal with dead bodies from around the world.  Some are historic practices that are dying out or changing and some are the newest ways of dealing with bodies.

If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) by: Betty White
Non-Fiction: Memoir, 258 pages
Stories from the Betty White's life, written while she was working on "Hot in Cleveland".

The Magician's Daughter: The Sun and Moon Book 1 by: Lilly James
Fiction: Fantasy, E-book
Elsa is the only member of her family with no magic abilities, even her little sister has started being able to do magic. Meanwhile her grandmother arrives to share life changing news.

Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story by: Debbie Tung
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Graphic Novel, 177 pages
A collection of comics on the life of an introvert.

Junkyard Druid by: M.D. Massey
Fiction: Mystery, Paranormal, Fantasy, E-book
Colin McCool is the last in a long line of champions, who protect humans from all sorts of supernatural beings.  Because of this he has been cursed by one of the supernatural being that his family has fought with.  This curse causes him to be possessed by a being that will kill everyone around when he gets too angry/fighting. Because of his he can no longer be a champion, and he killed the love of his life, the first time he was cursed.  Now he works in a junkyard, and is working on college.  But, the Queen of the Austin Fae has blackmailed him into helping her. 

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