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Moran Prairie Library Book Club selection for Thursday, December 6th, at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Bazell, Josh |
| Wild Thing |
| Dr. Peter Brown, a former hit-man now part of the witness protection program, is sent to Portland, Oregon to join a reclusive billionaire on a quest to find a mysterious sea monster…all while eluding drug dealers and mobsters. |
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 | Beagle, Peter S. |
| Sleight of Hand |
| An extraordinary collection of contemporary fantasy– where mortals and mythical creatures combine to explore heroism, life changing decisions, and the power of family ties. |
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 | Davidson, Andrew |
| The Gargoyle |
| A hedonistic porn star suffers horrific burns in a car crash and, feeling like a monster inside and out, plots to end his tortuous life…until he is visited by a fellow patient, a sculptor of gargoyles, who claims they shared a past life. |
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 | Kafka, Franz |
| The Metamorphosis and Other Stories |
| A discourse on human emotions – guilt, anxiety, isolation, insecurity – as told through the story of a young traveling salesman who transforms into a giant insect, ultimately becoming disgraced and alienated in his own home. |
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 | Keret, Etgar |
| Suddenly, a Knock on the Door |
| Ranging from comic to quaint this collection of short stores meanders from one impossible and strange human condition to the other – where a woman discovers a zipper on her boyfriend’s tongue and silent children co-exist with talking animals. |
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 | Lennon, J. Robert |
| Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes |
| A collection of 100 funny, bizarre, disturbing and uncanny tales that reveal the everyday world is a strange and eerie place. |
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 | Masters, Alexander |
| Simon: the Genius in My Basement |
| A tortured biography of a Cambridge University math prodigy who becomes fixated on The Monster – a spectacular and mysterious set of vast and complex numbers – and obsessively spends his time riding buses throughout England. |
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 | Sedaris, David |
| Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules |
| Containing the works of both classic and contemporary literary greats, Sedaris has gathered his favorite stories into a compilation of unsettling themes – illness, insanity, untimely death, and betrayal – with grotesque twists and dark humor. |
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 | Sheck, Laurie |
| A Monster’s Notes |
| Based on the premise that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is still alive in the 21st century, abandoned by his creator and now living with Mary - a sensitive creature who spends his time pondering her tragic life and taking notes on the contradictions of human existence. |
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 | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Frankenstein |
| A scientist is obsessed with the secret of life and attempts to create a perfect creature, instead producing a hideous being he rejects - yearning for acceptance the creature kills all that Frankenstein loves. Explores the issues of tampering with nature, the need for acceptance, and the responsibilities we have toward one another. |
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 | Shusterman, Neal |
| Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales |
| A delightful collection of creepy stories reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, with prevailing twists and normalcy turned upside down – where a teenage referee discovers fate lies with the outcome of a children’s soccer game, and a character receives his own skull from the future as a gift. Each story includes an introduction from the author. |
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 | Zinoman, Jason |
| Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror |
| The 1970s revolutionized the horror film genre, transforming it into an art form with gritty realism and spawning such classics as The Exorcist and Halloween, where the dark side of suburbia and terror of the unknown took the genre into the mainstream of the American film industry. |
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