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Oct. 2: A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab 2018 “Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking love story. Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release [literature and film], The Shape of Water is unlike anything you’ve ever read or seen.” - Amazon Nov. 6: The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus / Guillermo del Toro Dec. 4: Dark Maer by Blake Crouch 2016 “Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind- bendingly strange and profound- ly human—a relentlessly surpris- ing science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.” -Amazon 2016 “Schwab creates an in- genious set of nesting alternate Londons in this imaginative, well -crafted fantasy. Confident prose and marvelous touches - a chameleon coat, a scarlet riv- er of magic, a piratical antihero- ine - bring exuberant life to an exhilarating adventure among the worlds.” - Publishers Weekly Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00. Oct 2018 - April 2019: Hamilton-Wenham Public Library 978-468-5577 * hwlibrary.org March 5: The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks 2016 "This tale of unexpected alliances has everything: winning characters, a sumptuous setting, and sharp observations about power and history. Hidden depths abound in The Nameless City." - Scott Westerfeld 2006 “The Thorn of Camorr is said to be an unbeatable swordsman, a master thief, a ghost that walks through walls. Half the city believes him to be a legendary champion of the poor. The other half believe him to be a foolish myth. Nobody has it quite right.” -Scottlynch.us (Skip January) Feb. 5: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Sco Lynch April 2: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman “In a landmark epic of fantasy & storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convinc- ing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors.” - publisher

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Page 1: Join us on the first A Darker Shade of Magic · A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab 2018 “Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine

Oct. 2: A Darker Shade of Magic

by Victoria Schwab

2018 “Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking love story. Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release [literature and film], The Shape of Water is unlike anything you’ve ever read or seen.” - Amazon

Nov. 6: The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus / Guillermo del Toro

Dec. 4: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

2016 “Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profound-ly human—a relentlessly surpris-ing science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.” -Amazon

2016 “Schwab creates an in-genious set of nesting alternate Londons in this imaginative, well-crafted fantasy. Confident prose and marvelous touches - a chameleon coat, a scarlet riv-er of magic, a piratical antihero-ine - bring exuberant life to an exhilarating adventure among the worlds.”

- Publishers Weekly

Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00.

Oct 2018 - April 2019:

Hamilton-Wenham Public Library 978-468-5577 * hwlibrary.org

March 5: The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks

2016 "This tale of unexpected

alliances has everything:

winning characters, a

sumptuous setting, and sharp

observations about power and

history. Hidden depths

abound in The Nameless City." - Scott Westerfeld

2006 “The Thorn of Camorr is

said to be an unbeatable

swordsman, a master thief, a

ghost that walks through walls.

Half the city believes him to be

a legendary champion of the

poor. The other half believe him

to be a foolish myth. Nobody

has it quite right.” -Scottlynch.us

(Skip January) Feb. 5: The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch

April 2: The Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman

“In a landmark epic of fantasy &

storytelling, Philip Pullman invites

readers into a world as convinc-

ing and thoroughly realized as

Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall.

Here lives an orphaned ward

named Lyra Belacqua, whose

carefree life among the scholars

at Oxford's Jordan College is

shattered by the arrival of two

powerful visitors.” - publisher