New Horror Movies

Halloween is just around the corner and I thought it would be nice to look at some of our newest horror movie titles.

First up is The Belko Experiment starring Tony Goldwyn (TV's Scandal, Ghost) and John Gallagher, Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane, Hush). Belko Industries is an American run company in Bogota, Colombia. It is normally a calm place to work, but when 80 American employees are locked into their office building, it becomes a death trap. A mysterious voice comes over the intercom and orders the workers to participate in an insidious game of kill or be killed.

Next is The Bye Bye Man starring Douglas Smith (Ouija) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix Trilogy). Three friends accidentally happen upon the origins of The Bye Bye Man legend and discover there is but one way to avoid the curse: don't think it, don't say it. Once the Bye Bye Man gets in your head, he takes control and makes you say and do horrible things to those around you. They must try to find a way to resist the possession by this malevolent entity before its too late.

Rings starring Johnny Galecki (TV's The Big Bang Theory) continues the horror franchise begun with The Ring (2002). A radical college professor finds the mysterious video rumored to kill all who view it seven days later. He enlists the help of his students to uncover the secrets behind the Samara legend. Julia, the girlfriend of one of the students, becomes worried about her boyfriend's involvement in the experiment. When she sacrifices herself to save him, she finds out that there is a "movie within a movie" that no one has ever seen before.

Finally, we have Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh starring Tony Todd (TV's The Flash) and Kelly Rowan (TV's The O.C.). When Annie Tarrant's father is brutally murdered, the young schoolteacher struggles to solve the murder herself. The New Orleans locals say it was the Candyman who murdered him, but Annie is not convinced until she summons the dreaded spectre herself. As she learns more about the monster and uncovers the secret to his power, she must race against time to stop him before he kills again.


Spooked Yet?!

Planning Ahead for Thanksgiving!

Hard to believe, but it's less than 6 weeks until Thanksgiving!  Time to dust off old recipes or why not look through some of our many cookbooks and start a new family tradition?

A Thanksgiving Holiday Cookbook by Emily Raabe

Learn how to make turkey pot pie, corn pudding, and other Thanksgiving dishes.  Recipes are geared so that the whole family can join in!

Thanksgiving Entertaining by Lou Seibert Pappas

Everything from how to prepare a traditional New England style Thanksgiving feast to a more contemporary California influenced Thanksgiving meal.

Historical Thanksgiving Cookery by Robert W. Pelton

Want to try the Thanksgiving dinners that Americans in the past have enjoyed?  This volume contains the favorite recipes from the early days of our nation - from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War.








We have these and many other cookbooks - come in and explore!

Horror Fiction Titles

With Halloween coming up fast, I thought I would feature some of our newer horror fiction for those who want to get into the mood.

Entropy in Bloom by Jeremy R. Johnson "For more than a decade, Jeremy Robert Johnson has been bubbling under the surface of both literary and genre fiction. His short stories present a brilliantly dark and audaciously weird realm where cosmic nightmares collide with all-too-human characters and apocalypses of all shapes and sizes loom ominously. In "Persistence Hunting," a lonely distance runner is seduced into a brutal life of crime with an ever-narrowing path for escape. In "When Susurrus Stirs," an unlucky pacifist must stop a horrifying parasite from turning his body into a sentient hive. Running through all of Johnson's work is a hallucinatory vision and deeply-felt empathy, earning the author a reputation as one of today's most daring and thrilling writers. Featuring the best of his previously independently-published short fiction, as well as an exclusive, never-before-published novella "The Sleep of Judges"--where a father's fight against the denizens of a drug den becomes a mind-bending suburban nightmare--Entropy in Bloom is a perfect compendium for avid fans and an ideal entry point for adventurous readers seeking the humor, heartbreak, and terror of JRJ's strange new worlds."

The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn "Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the odds usually point to a worst-case scenario. And despite Stevie Clark's youth, he knows that, too; he's seen the cop shows. He knows what each ticking moment may mean for Jude, his cousin and best friend. That, and there was that boy, Max Larsen...the one from years ago, found dead after also disappearing under mysterious circumstances. And then there were the animals: pets missing out of yards. For years, the residents of Deer Valley have murmured about these unsolved crimes...and that a killer may still be lurking around their quiet town. Now, fear is reborn--and for Stevie, who is determined to find out what really happened to Jude, the awful truth may be too horrifying to imagine."

Dark Cities by Christopher Golden "An anthology of horror stories in urban settings: back alleys, crumbling brownstones, gleaming high-rise towers, or city hall. Terrifying urban myths, malicious ghosts, cursed architecture, malignant city deities, personal demons (in business or relationships) twisted into something worse; virtually anything that inspires the contributors to imagine some bit of urban darkness."

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero "The summer of 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask...The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. It's their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world."

The Hole: a novel by Hye-yng P’yn  A man wakes up paralyzed from a car accident that killed his wife. He's taken care of solely by his mother-in-law, who begins to show erratic behavior as she digs up her daughter's prized garden.

Hispanic Heritage Month

We're in the middle of National Hispanic Heritage Month and we have been posting a different spotlight on Facebook every day.

Some of the people we have already featured include :

• Antonia Novello, MD
• Oscar de la Renta
• Selena Gomez
• Antonio Banderas
• Eva Longoria
• Jorge Ramos
• Sonia Sotomayor
• Ted Cruz
• Ellen Ochoa

Hispanic Heritage Month runs through October 15 - keep watching to see who else we feature this month.  In the meantime, why not check out one of the Hispanic authors in our collection?

• Isabel Allende (Daughter of Fortune; The House of the Spirits, etc)
• Julia Alvarez (Before We Were Free; How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent; etc)
• Jorge Luis Borges (An Introduction to English Literature; Selected Poems 1923-1967)
• Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist; The Spy; Aleph; Adultery; Manuscript found in Accra)
• Zoraida Cordova (Labyrinth Lost)
• Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; This is How You Lose Her)
• Carlos Fuentes (The Diary of Frida Kahlo; The Old Gringo; The Campaign)
• Esmeralda Santiago (Conquistadora)
• Alisa Valdes (The Feminist and the Cowboy : an Unlikely Story)