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Western Stories - Beyond the Genre

11/8/2021

 
If you like themes of the American West in your fiction, here are some ideas for you beyond the Western genre shelf.
  • Ridgerunner, Gil Adamson, print 
  • Huck Out West, Robert Coover, print | large print | audio 
  • West, Carys Davies, print 
  • Truly Like Lightning, David Duchovny, print | ebook
  • So Brave, Young, and Handsome, Leif Enger, large print | audio | ebook
  • The High Divide, Lin Enger, print | large print | ebook
  • Book of the Little Axe, Lauren Francis-Sharma, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Flicker of Old Dreams, Nancy Henderson, print 
  • Via Negativa, Daniel Hornsby, print 
  • All the Cowboys Ain't Gone, John J. Jacobson, print 
  • News of the World, Paulette Giles, large print | audio |  ebook  | eaudio
  • Whiskey When We're Dry, John Larison, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, Tom Lin, print | ebook
  • Wolves of Eden, Kevin McCarthy, print | ebook
  • Hard Country, Michael McGarrity, print 
  • Down Range, Taylor Moore, print 
  • The Son, Philipp Meyer, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Outlawed, Anna North, print | ebook
  • Prairie Fever, Michael Parker, print 
  • Texas Ranger, James Patterson, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage, print | eaudio
  • Cherokee America, Margaret Verble, print | eaudio
  • All Things Left Wild, James Wade, print 
  • How Much of these Hills is Gold, C. Pam Zhang, print | ebook | eaudio
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You might also enjoy this list of Modern Westerns.

Scary Stories for Youth - Very, Very Scary Chapter Books

9/20/2021

 
  • Shutter, Courtney Alameda, print
  • Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Darkdeep, Ally Condie & Brendan Reichs, print
  • Winterwood, Shea Ernshaw, print | ebook
  • Hex Hall, Rachel Hawkins, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson, print | ebook
  • Horrid, Katrina Leno, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Rot & Ruin, Jonathan Maberry, print
  • Campfire, Shawn Sarles, print
  • The Screaming Staircase, Jonathan Stroud, print | ebook | eaudio
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Scary Stories for Youth - Scary Short Story Collections

9/20/2021

 
  • Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe, Josh Allen, print
  • Ghosts, Ghouls and Other Nightmares, Gene Kemp, print
  • One-Minute Scary Stories, Shari Lewis, print
  • The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, Patricia C. McKissack, print
  • Hush-a-Bye, Jody Lee Mott, print
  • Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World, Arielle North Olson, print | ebook
  • Hide and Don’t Seek: and Other Very Scary Stories, Anica Mrose Rissi, print
  • Beware!, R.L. Stine, print
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Alvin Schwartz, print | ebook
  • Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales, Nancy Van Laan, print
  • Scary Stories for Sleep-overs, R.C. Welch, print
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Scary Stories for Youth - Middle-of-the-Road Scary

9/20/2021

 
  • Small Spaces, Katherine Arden, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Night Gardener, Jonathan Auxier print | ebook | eaudio
  • That One Spooky Night, Dan Bar-el, print
  • The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs, print | ebook
  • Doll Bones, Holly Black, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury, print | eaudio
  • The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding, Alexandra Bracken, print
  • The Weirn Books: Be Wary of the Silent Woods, Svetlana Chmakova, print
  • The Boggart, Susan Cooper, print | eaudio
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, Cynthia DeFelice, print
  • Watch Hollow, Gregory Funaro, print | eaudio
  • Ghost Knight, Cornelia Funke, print | audio | eaudio 
  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • Coraline: the Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell, print
  • The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, print | audio | ebook | eaudio | eaudio
  • The Graveyard Book: the Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell, vol 1 print | vol 2 print 
  • The Crossroads, Chris Grabenstein, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook
  • The Girl in the Locked Room, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Apocalypse Taco, Nathan Hale, print | ebook
  • Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon, print
  • Can You Survive an Alien Invasion?, B.A. Hoena, print
  • The Last Halloween, Abby Howard, print
  • The List of Unspeakable Fears, J. Kasper Kramer, coming soon
  • Whispering Pines, Heidi Lang, print
  • The Stitchers (Fright Watch series), Lorien Lawrence, print
  • Billy Bones, Christopher Lincoln, print
  • Thirteens, Kate Alice Marshall, print
  • Spirit Hunters, Ellen Oh, print | ebook
  • The Nest, Kenneth Oppel, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • City of Ghosts, Victoria Schwab, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Can You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?, Anthony Wacholtz, print
  • Nightbooks, J.A. White, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • The Ghosts of Mercy Manor, Betty Ren Wright, print
  • The Monstrumologist, Rick Yancey, print
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Scary Stories for Youth - Fun & Scary

9/20/2021

 
  • A Very Scary Ghost Story, Joanne Barkan, print
  • Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories, Max Brallier, print | ebook
  • Shadow in the Woods and Other Scary Stories, Max Brallier, print | ebook
  • A Small Zombie Problem, K.G. Campbell, print
  • Witches of Brooklyn, Sophie Escabasse, print | ebook
  • Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Christian McKay Heidicker, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio 
  • Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Christian McKay Heidicker, print
  • Bunnicula (series), Deborah & James Howe, print | audiobook | ebook | eaudio
  • Beetle & the Hollowbones, Aliza Layne, print | ebook
  • The Spooky Box, Mark Gonyea, print
  • Edgar & Ellen (series), Charles Ogden, print
  • Creepy Carrots!, Aaron Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Creepy Pair of Underwear!, Aaron Reynolds, print | ebook
  • The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, Aaron Reynolds, print
  • The Dark, Lemony Snicket, print
  • Scaredy Squirrel (series), Melanie Watt, print | ebook
  • Dust & Grim, Chuck Wendig, coming in October
  • Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Mo Willems, print
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Scary Stories for Youth - Not So Scary

9/20/2021

 
  • I’m Not Scared!, Jonathan Allen, print
  • Ghost Cat, Kevan Atteberry, print
  • Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour, Eve Bunting, print
  • Boo Who?, Ben Clanton, print
  • Little Ghoul Goes to School, Jeff Czekaj, print
  • The Pomegranate Witch, Denise Doyen, print
  • Gustavo, the Shy Ghost, Flavia Z. Drago, print
  • There's No Such Thing As Ghosts, Emmanuelle Eeckhout, print
  • Go Away, Big Green Monster!, Ed Emberley, print
  • Zee is Not Scared, Michel Gay, print
  • Scaredy Kate, Jacob Grant, print
  • The Scary Places Map Book, B.G. Hennessy, print
  • Duck and Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo!, Tad Hills, print
  • The Fun Book of Scary Stuff, Emily Jenkins, print
  • Ghosts in the House, Kazuno Kohara, print
  • Let’s Scare Bear, Yuko Katakawa, print
  • The Hungry Ghosts, Julius Lester, print
  • The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, Alice Lowe, print
  • Night Animals, Gianna Marino, print | ebook
  • The Too-Scary Story, Bethanie Deeney Murguia, print
  • Tell Me a Scary Story -- But Not Too Scary!, Carl Reiner, print
  • I Want to Be in a Scary Story, Sean Taylor, print
  • We're Going on a Ghost Hunt, Marcia K. Vaughan, print
  • Stormy Night, Salina Yoon, print ​
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We Remember September 11 - Adults

8/16/2021

 
Nonfiction focused on history, facts of the day, or specific aspects of the events, causes, and locations of 9/11:
  • Out of the Blue, Richard Bernstein, print
  • Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
  • The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett M. Graff, print | ebook | eaudio
  • American Ground, William Langewiesche, print
  • The Cell, John Miller, et al., print
  • New York September 11, print
  • The 9/11 Commission Report, print
  • Why America Slept, Gerald Posner, print
  • Once More to the Sky, Scott Raab & Joe Woolhead (Coming in August)
  • Touching History, Lynn Spencer, print
  • What We Saw, Joe Klein, print
  • The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Fall and Rise, Mitchell Zuckoff, print
Nonfiction focused on personal stories, people's actions on 9/11, and impact on day-to-day life:
  • Because We Are Americans, print
  • The Day the World Came to Town, Jim DeFede, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • 102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Thunder Dog, Michael Hingson, large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Love, Greg & Lauren, Greg Manning, print
  • 9/11: Inside the Pentagon, dvd
  • Ordinary Heroes, Joseph Pfeifer (Coming in September)
  • Last Man Down, Richard Picciotto, print
  • The Red Bandanna, Tom Rinaldi, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Middletown, America, Gail Sheehy, print
  • Report from Ground Zero, Dennis Smith, print
Nonfiction focused on the Afghan War, soldiers, and veterans:
  • The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Mark Bowden, print | ebook
  • Shooting Ghosts, Thomas J. Brennan & Finbarr O’Reilly, print
  • Un-American, Erik Edstrom, print
  • American Cipher, Matt Farwell, print
  • Shoot Like a Girl, Mary Jennings Hegar, print
  • Hell and Back Again, dvd
  • War, Sebastian Junger, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian, print
  • My Share of the Task, Stanley A. McChrystal, print | ebook
  • No Easy Day, Mark Owen, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Restrepo, dvd
  • The Outpost, Jake Tapper, print | eaudio
  • The Wrong War, Bing (Francis J.) West, print | ebook
  • The Afghanistan Papers, Craig Whitlock, print
Fiction, Graphic Novel, and Drama:
  • Windows on the World, Robert Mailer Anderson, et al., print
  • Come From Away, cd
  • Flight 93, dvd
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, print | audio | ebook
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, blu
  • Redeployment, Phil Klay, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Looming Tower (series), dvd
  • The Usual Rules, Joyce Maynard, print
  • The Good Life, Jay McInerney, print
  • The Stringer, Ted Rall, print
  • 12 Strong, dvd | blu  
  • The Submission, Amy Waldman, print | eaudio
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, dvd
Download this list (PDF).
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We Remember September 11 - Kids & Teens

8/16/2021

 
Children's:
  • Nine, Ten: a September 11 Story, Nora Raleigh Baskin, print | audio | ebook | eaudio 
  • America Is Under Attack, Don Brown, print
  • Cows for America, Carmen Agra Deedy, print
  • The Breadwinner Trilogy, Deborah Ellis, print | ebook
  • Saved by the Boats: the Heroic Sea Evacuation of September 11, Julie Gassman, print
  • Ground Zero, Alan Gratz, print | ebook
  • Fireboat: the Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, Maira Kalman, print
  • Messages to Ground Zero, Shelley Harwayne, print
  • A Nation Challenged, ed. Nancy Lee, et al., print
  • What Were the Twin Towers?, Jim O’Connor, print | ebook
  • Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes, print | ebook
  • This Very Tree: a Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth, Sean Rubin, print
  • I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, Lauren Tarshis, print | ebook
  • Nasreen’s Secret School, Jeanette Winter, print
Teen:
  • In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers, Don Brown, print
  • Hope and Other Punchlines, Julie Buxbaum, print
  • An Emotion of Great Delight, Tahereh Mafi, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Memory of Things, Gae Polisner, print
Adult books that may be appropriate for children and teens:
  • American Heroes, print
  • Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
  • New York September 11, print
  • 9-11: A Tribute, print
Download this list (PDF).
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Celebrate Pride: Children's Books

6/7/2021

 
Picture Books & Board Books
  • Sam!, Dani Gabriel, print
  • Ho'onani: Hula Warrior, Heather Gayle & Mika Song, print | ebook
  • Jacob's New Dress, Sarah Hoffman, print
  • From Archie to Zack, Vincent X. Kirsch, print 
  • Over the Shop, JonArno Lawson & Qin Leng, print
  • Julián at the Wedding, Jessica Love, print
  • One of a Kind Like Me / Único como yo, Laurin Mayeno, print
  • Our Subway Baby, Peter Mercurio, print
  • Heather Has Two Mommies, Lesléa Newman, print
  • A Tale of Two Daddies, Vanita Oelschlager, print
  • My Maddy, Gayle E. Pitman, print
  • This Day in June, Gayle E. Pitman, print
  • Pride Colors, Robin Stevenson, print | ebook

Children’s Fiction, Nonfiction, and Graphic Novels
  • A High Five for Glenn Burke, Phil Bildner, print
  • Flight of the Puffin, Ann Braden, print
  • King and the Dragonflies, Kacen Callender, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Nate Expectations, Tim Federle, print
  • Rick, Alex Gino, print | ebook | eaudio
  • One Half from the East, Nadia Hashimi, print | ebook
  • Beetle & the Hollowbones, Aliza Layne, print | ebook
  • Too Bright to See, Kyle Lukoff, print
  • The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Sewing the Rainbow: The Story of Gilbert Baker and the Rainbow Flag, Gayle E. Pitman, print
  • Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, Rob Sanders, print
  • Stonewall: a Building, an Uprising, a Revolution, Rob Sanders, print | ebook
  • Ana on the Edge, A.J. Sass, print | ebook
  • The List of Things that Will Not Change, Rebecca Stead, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
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Celebrate Pride: Young Adult Books

6/7/2021

 
  • Kate in Waiting, Becky Albertalli, print | ebook
  • Cinderella is Dead, Kalynn Bayron, print | ebook
  • A Queer History of the United States for Young People, Michael Bronski, print | ebook
  • Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender, print | ebook | eaudio
  • This Book Is Gay, Juno Dawson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • I Wish You All the Best, Mason Deaver, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The New Queer Conscience, Adam Eli, print | ebook
  • Seeing Gender, Iris Gottlieb, print 
  • You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Let's Talk About Love, Claire Kann, print 
  • Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, Susan Kuklin, print | ebook
  • I'll Be the One, Lyla Lee,bprint | ebook
  • Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Stay Gold, Tobly McSmith, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Miss Meteor, Tehlor Kay Mejia & Anna-Marie McLemore, print
  • Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World, Sarah Prager, print
  • Late to the Party, Kelly Quindlen, print 
  • Camp, L.C. Rosen, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Can't Take That Away, Steven Salvatore, print | ebook
  • Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Mario Tamaki & Rosemary Vallero-O'Connell, print | ebook
  • Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash, print
  • The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, print | ebook
  • Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon, print | ebook
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    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

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