I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Join us at The Peddler's Daughter on July 18 to discuss Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark! This true crime book is based on McNamara's efforts to find the Golden State Killer. If this sounds interesting, place a hold on the book in our catalog!

Kill the Farm Boy

Get ready for May 16!  We will be reading Delilah S. Dawson's hilarious Kill the Farm Boy.  Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, a hero, the Chosen One, was born...and so begins every fairy tale ever told. This is not that fairy tale. There is a Chosen One, but he is unlike any One who has ever been Chosened. And there is a faraway kingdom, but you have never been to a magical world quite like the land of Pell. There, a plucky farm boy will find more than he's bargained for on his quest to awaken the sleeping princess in her cursed tower. First there's the Dark Lord who wishes for the boy's untimely death...and also very fine cheese. Then there's a bard without a song in her heart but with a very adorable and fuzzy tail, an assassin who fears not the night but is terrified of chickens, and a mighty fighter more frightened of her sword than of her chain-mail bikini. This journey will lead to sinister umlauts, a trash-talking goat, the Dread Necromancer Steve, and a strange and wondrous journey to the most peculiar "happily ever after" that ever once-upon-a-timed.  Click here to place this book on hold.

The Cabin at the End of the World

On April 11th, stop by the Peddler's Daughter to celebrate the return of Get Lit!  We'll be discussing Paul Tremblay's The Cabin at the End of the World in anticipation of his book signing on April 18.  This is a thrilling novel in which a seven-year-old girl and her fathers are confronted by four menacing strangers while vacationing at a remote New Hampshire cabin.  Click here to place this book on hold!

Peripheral by William Gibson

Join us Thursday, January 17 to talk about William Gibson's cyberpunk novel, The Peripheral.  One night, Flynne's brother asks her to take a job for him, beta-testing a new game.  What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder....  Click here to place this book on hold.

The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

Get into the holiday spirit with a little...murder?  Join us December 17 at 7 PM at the Peddler's Daughter! We'll be discussing Anthony Horowitz's best selling novel The Word is Murder.  When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.  Click here to place this book on hold.

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

Our November book selection is Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.  Joe Spork fixes clocks, trying to live a quiet life separate from his gangster father.  His orderly world is upended when he accidentally activates an unusual clockwork mechanism that turns out to be a doomsday machine.  Suddenly, everyone is after him and he may have to pick up his father's gun anyway.  Click here to place this book on hold.

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