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Just like that the weather is cooler and the daylight hours are shorter and shorter. Fall is here! While we can argue that all seasons are perfect for reading. (right?) Fall reading means a nice hot cuppa and a cozy snuggle or enjoying a good book outdoors on a sunny and pleasant fall afternoon. Best of both worlds, if you ask us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here are some Fiction suggestions with a “Fall Vibe” for your reading pleasure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other\u2014and the longer Casey watches\u2014it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom\u2019s marriage is not as perfect and placid as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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A frantic attempt to save a young man\u2019s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the caf\u00e9 and settle her grandmother\u2019s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father\u2019s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can\u2019t stop talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she’s not alone. For more than a decade she’s been meeting with five other actual final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette’s worst fears are realized–someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.<\/span><\/p>\n But the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n But then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared\u2014profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted.<\/p>\n Maybe it was her fault. She shared too much, too fast. But isn’t that always what women think\u2014that they’re the ones to blame? Soon she learns there were others. Girls who thought they were in love. Girls who later went missing. She had been looking for a connection, but now she’s looking for answers. Chasing a digital trail into his dark past\u2014and hers\u2014she finds herself on a dangerous hunt. And she’s not sure whether she’s the predator\u2014or the prey.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother\u2019s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben\u2019s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it\u2019s starting to look like it\u2019s Ben\u2019s future that\u2019s in question.<\/span><\/p>\n The socialite \u2013 The nice guy \u2013 The alcoholic \u2013 The girl on the verge \u2013 The concierge<\/span><\/p>\n Everyone\u2019s a neighbor. Everyone\u2019s a suspect. And everyone knows something they\u2019re not telling.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n As acting editor-in-chief of the Newport\u00a0Messenger<\/i>, Emma had hoped to leave her days as a society reporter behind her. But at the last moment, she must fill in and attend the Harvest Festival. With nearly every eligible daughter of Newport high society in attendance, Emma can almost hear romantic dreams shattering like glass slippers when the prince fails to appear. The next morning, he is found dead in the side garden at Crossways, making it clear a murderer crashed the party.<\/p>\n The prince has been stabbed in the same manner as another man, recently found on nearby Bailey’s Beach\u2014who strongly resembles Emma’s half-brother Brady’s father, presumed dead for nearly thirty years after a yachting mishap. As Emma investigates a connection between the two victims, she is joined on the hunt by Mamie Fish herself. But they must hurry\u2014before the killer slips away like the fading summer . . .<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Midsummer\u2019s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands \u2013 the marshy landscape of the south coast.<\/p>\n Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.<\/p>\n Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor\u2019s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself — all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter’s story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission.<\/p>\n As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire.<\/p>\n Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida’s storytelling but remains suspicious of the author’s sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Meanwhile, to raise money for the local clinic, Emily and Katie host a murder mystery dinner on Halloween night. All goes well until the supposed corpse turns up actually dead\u2014with Katie standing over him, a bloody knife in her hand.<\/span><\/p>\n Luke Richards, local sheriff and Emily\u2019s true love, is forced to regard Katie as a suspect, but Emily refuses to accept the situation. Her loyalty to Katie crashes against her duty to Luke and to the truth as she fights to save Katie from a murder charge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state\u2014called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo\u2014a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n\n
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