Black Sheep

Black SheepA New York Times Best Horror Book of the Year A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional familys dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a normal family, but Vesper Wrights is truly something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked backmostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldnt return. But

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page-flipping novel…[with] shades of Succession” (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes

it’s a recipe for disaster

an enchanting old house in Hope Falls

character and motivation

Raquel feels like an outsider

Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier

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This journey into the world of the octopus will reveal how the large and capable brain of these creatures occupies their whole body–not just their heads—and they can actually adjust their genetic makeup to respond to the demands of the environment

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