September 2021 Loanstars Adult Picks

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Dark Things I Adore : A Novel.

Dark Things I Adore : A Novel.

Lattari, Katie.
2021

1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small, prestigious arts camp nestled in the Maine woods. Secrets and dark ambitions rise, and the truths they tell will come back to haunt them in ways more deadly than they dreamed. 2018. Esteemed art professor Max Durant arrives at his protégé's remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. Audra knows what happened that summer in 1988. Max's secret, and the dark things that followed. And even though it won't be easy, Audra knows someone must pay.

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The Last Graduate : A Novel.

The Last Graduate : A Novel.

Novik, Naomi.
2021

At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year - and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules. Print run 100,000.

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Matrix : A Novel.

Matrix : A Novel.

Groff, Lauren.
2021

Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. Marie is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? Author of "Fates and Furies." Print run 150,000.

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The Strangers

The Strangers

Vermette, Katherena
2021