What would it be like if the deceased suddenly reappeared just as they were when they died.  A long dead child returns to aging parents.  A parent returns to their now grown children.  A family that was murdered and the killer was never found.  What would people do?  How would they react?  This is what happens in the book "The Returned".  People who have died appear alive all over the world.  Many questions are raised such as; how did this happen, who are they really, where did they come from and what do they want?  People react in various ways.  Some people accept them as who they appear to be and are happy to have their loved ones back with them.  Some people accept them but do not believe they are actually the people they knew.  Others do not accept them and are angry and fearful.  As more and more "returned" come back the problem of what to do with them arises.  This is a fascinating book.  I could hardly put it down.  Even the author's note was interesting.  This book is the basis for the new TV series "Resurrection".

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet sitting by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean), the unremembered past comes flooding back.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a groundbreaking work told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human. Gaiman masterfully shows the power that stories possess to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.

It’s been ten years since Alanna of Trebond made it possible for both males and females to train as knights. Despite this, no other girl has been brave enough to try. Not, at least, until Keladry “Kel” of Mindelan decides that she is up to the challenge and steps forward.

Knighthood training may have been tough for Alanna, but things are far worse for Kel. In addition to the traditional hazing and grueling schedule that all knights-in-training must deal with, Kel must also face the challenges that come with everyone knowing her true identity. Unlike her predecessor, Kel does not disguise herself as a boy. Everyone knows that Kel is a girl, and not everybody is happy with that fact. Many still think that girls should not be knights, and some of them are willing to act on that belief. Unfortunately for Kel, this includes her training master, Lord Wyldon.

Lord Wyldon is a traditionalist and is absolutely against girls becoming knights. To stop Kel from becoming a knight, he makes her life a living nightmare by putting her through an intensely grueling probationary period that no other knight-in-training has ever had to endure. Further set apart from her fellow trainees, Kel's path to knighthood is now that much harder. But she is determined to try. To say the least, Kel is not to be underestimated, as everyone is about to discover....

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother?

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

Meg's father has been missing for over a year. Some believe him dead. Others prefer to think of him as a cruel man who abandoned his lovely wife and children. Meg's mother continues to hang on to hope that her husband will someday return, but after more than a year without hearing even one word from him, even that hope is beginning to fray. As for Meg herself...well she doesn't really know what to think. Not, at least, until one dark and stormy night, when a mysterious stranger arrives at her doorstep with the most unbelievable news: 

Meg's father is alive, but only just. Ever since disappearing more than a year ago, he has been an evil ruler's prisoner...on another planet.

Now the time has come for Meg to rescue him. With the help of her friend, Calvin, and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, Meg must travel across space and time to save her father. But are these three children really strong enough to outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?

When Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, must flee through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous Aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Alyss trusts this author to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere will find her and bring her home. But he gets the story all wrong. He even spells her name incorrectly!

Fortunately, Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan knows all too well the awful truth of Alyss' story and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may eventually battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.

The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions surrounding mad tea parties, grinning Cheshire cats, and a curious little blond girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.

Why not try reading something REALLY scary for Halloween this year?

From a top secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose…

Bestselling author Dean Koontz presents his most terrifying, dramatic and moving novel: The explosive story of a man and a woman, caught in a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation…

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.

When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future–and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature.

Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon, Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.