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Eisenhower Public Library Staff Picks: Horror
If you like Lucy Foley, try…
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Real Horror Wears Pink
If you like Lucy Foley, try…
If you like Ruth Ware, try...
Real Horror Wears Pink
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"The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York's oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays. No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one...
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A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
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"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...
4) Liar & spy
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Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
5) The archived
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Archived novels volume 1
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"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
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The paranormalists volume 1
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When popular, pretty classmate asks best friends Jinx and Jackson, high school sophomores, to investigate a haunting at her father's apartment, Jackson is sympathetic and convinces Jinx to trust him, despite her skepticism about Emily's true intentions.
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Sonny Bravo is a tender, smart fifteen-year-old Mexican American who has come to live at The Flowers when his mother marries the building's owner. Sonny fills his days taking care of the apartment complex, entangling himself in the lives and stories of other tenants: Cindy, an eighteen-year-old druggie who is marries and bored; Nica, a cloistered girl who cares for her infant brother; and Pink, an albino who sells used cars in front of the building....
13) Chi's sweet home
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Chi's sweet home volume 12
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Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
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When a snowstorm keeps thirteen-year-old best friends Olivia, Kate, and Georgia inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment building on Valentine's Day, they connect with their neighbors by distributing homemade fortune cookies and uncover one another's secrets along the way.
16) Melody burning
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Melody, a sixteen-year-old celebrity living in an expensive Hollywood high-rise with her manager-mother, meets a mysterious boy who is determined to keep her safe.
17) Building stories
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Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other, and an elderly landlady.
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Chi's sweet home volume 5
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Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
19) Maison Ikkoku: 1
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Maison Ikkoku (VIZ Signature) volume 1
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"Yusaku Godai didn't get accepted into college on the first try, so he's studying to retake the entrance exams. But living in a dilapidated building full of eccentric and noisy tenants is making it hard for him to achieve his goals. Now that a beautiful woman has moved in to become the new resident manager, Godai is driven to distraction!"--Provided by publisher
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Hot gimmick volume 12
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In this final volume of the series, Hatsumi needs to choose between the three hunks in her life--her childhood friend turned male model, her adopted older brother, and her on-again-off-again boyfriend.
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