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20 & 30-Something Mock Tales Title Swap - January 14, 2019RSS

Armada

By Ernest Cline
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, April 8, 2019. 7:30 PM.
Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack Lightman questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion.

Broken Monsters

By Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Detective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays that fuse the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings.

Carrie

By Stephen King

An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.

Dark Places

By Gillian Flynn

After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, 7-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate. 

Darker Shade of Magic

By Victoria Schwab
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Serving as an ambassador of his own world while carrying messages to parallel-universe Londons with respective magical abilities and conflict, Kell hides his secret smuggling activities only to be set up with a forbidden object from a dark dimension.

Death of a Salesman

By Arthur Miller
Recommended By Josephine Amoia, Children's Librarian

“The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness… A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre (From the Publisher).”


Genre Plays
Dietland

By Sarai Walker

Biding her time alone until she can have weight-loss surgery, Plum joins an underground community of empowered women and agrees to a series of challenges, including work with a group that stages anti-misogyny terrorist acts.

Dread Nation

By Justina Ireland

When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.

Failure is an Option

By H. Jon Benjamin

Chronicles humorous stories of failure from the early days, romantic life, family, and career of the author.

Final Girls

By Riley Sager
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Emerging as the lone survivor of a serial killer’s massacre a decade earlier, Quincy Carpenter struggles to ignore traumatic memories and move on as one of a group of other survivors who look to her for answers when one of them is found dead in a suspicious suicide.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By Michelle McNamara
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

An account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeDiary.com website and featuring an afterword by her husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, traces the rapes and murders of dozens of victims and the author's determined efforts to help identify the killer and bring him to justice.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

By Iain Reid

A man and his girlfriend, on their way to a secluded farm, take an unexpected detour that leaves the woman stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape from the twisted manifestations that are haunting her.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

By Mindy Kaling
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

“Kaling shares her observations, fears, and opinions about a wide-ranging list of the topics she thinks about the most. From her favorite types of guys to life in the "The Office" writers' room, her book is full of personal stories and laugh-out-loud philosophies (From the Publisher).”

Jar of Hearts

By Jennifer Hillier
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Fourteen years after Angela's disappearance, her remains are discovered near her friend Georgina's childhood home, so when the latter is arrested, Detective Kaiser, who was friends with both girls in high school, must unravel the truth.

Jurassic Park

By Michael Crichton
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 9, 2018. 7:30 PM

The Great American Read Title Selection: JURASSIC PARK by Michael Crichton

A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for eons.

Just Kids

By Patti Smith
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of her youth among the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe - the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.

Last Black Unicorn

By Tiffany Haddish

The comedian and actress presents autobiographical essays that reflect on her disadvantaged youth as a foster child in South Central Los Angeles; her discovery of her talent for comedy; and her struggles with gender, race, and class boundaries in the entertainment industry.

Man in the High Castle

By Philip K. Dick
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 12, 2017. 7:30 PM.

Philip K. Dick’s alternate history classic, the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the east and the Japanese in the west.

Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One

By Patrick Rothfuss
Series Kingkiller Chronicles

A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world.

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

By Stephen King

A collection of twenty-three short works includes vampire thrillers, ingenious imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, a teleplay from "Tales of the Darkside," and a nonfiction Little League story.

Noir

By Christopher Moore

On the streets of post-World War II San Francisco, a smitten barkeeper and unofficial fixer-for-hire investigates his paramour's disappearance amid a series of weird events involving an unidentified flying object and a mysterious plane crash.

One More Thing

By B.J. Novak

A debut collection by a writer for the television series "The Office" includes the title story, in which a boy's lucrative sweepstakes win proves more harm than good for his family.

Ready Player One

By Ernest Cline
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, June 9, 2014. 7 PM.

Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

Rebecca

By Daphne Du Maurier
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted.

Sadie

By Courtney Summers

Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.

Sharp Objects

By Gillian Flynn
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings. 

Shining Girls

By Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

By Jenny Han

Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent.

Why Not Me?

By Mindy Kaling
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The star of The Mindy Project presents a collection of personal essays, observations, fears, and advice on everything from prisoner fan mail to celebrity interactions.

Winters

By Lisa Gabriele
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Moving into the opulent estate of her new fiancé, Max Winter, after a whirlwind romance, a young woman navigates the ire of his manipulative teen daughter and her future husband's cutthroat political ambitions.

You Suck

By Christopher Moore
Series Vampire Love Stories

Waking up after a fantastic night only to discover that his girlfriend is a vampire and has transformed him into one, Thomas C. Flood adapts to his new powers while dealing with a dangerous faction of bloodsuckers trying to kill off all other vampires.