• Death searches for you. Relentless. Unforgiving. - Leigh Montalto
• Deserted Road. Car stalls. Glass breaks. - Leigh Montalto
• Nick shivers. The spirits are close. - Leigh Montalto
• Incessant knocking. From inside the house. - Leigh Montalto
• He got into the car drunk - Pattie Knight
• Parachute tangled during one-mile jump - Ken Barker
• The Ouija board spelled “IMU … Goodbye” - Evan Cass
• Another shooter at a local school - Art Wiese
• The poison smells delicious, right dearie? - Dylan Calhoun
• In the dark, glowing eyes appear - Garret Parks
• Bill arrives, reach into empty pocket - Jonah Dombrowski
• Falling high, falling fast: no parachute! - Guy Gehrman
• Alone in darkness. Are those voices? - Peter Clark
• “It’s breech!” screamed the elephant’s midwife - Dawn Bohm
• Masked faces walking all around me - Anna Koehl
• Wake paralyzed itching crushed black widow - Kim Burnham
• Oh my gosh, it got out! - Christopher Jensen
• Oh my gosh, you’re having triplets! - Delaney Lawlis
• Sleeping alone, someone pulls the blanket - Daphne Rose Gavin
• Taxes due. You have no money. - Laura Rusch
• She never saw the car coming - Stephanie Kohlie
• There are two types of tumors - Theresa Schulta
• Wait until your father gets home! - Theresa Schulta
• Decayed leaves stain Fall’s walk. HIROSHIMA – Tracey Ludvik
• Drunken push, dead eyes, ask why - Tracey Ludvik
• Leaves falling like yellow snow. Winter! - Tracey Ludvik
• With his last breath, “Behind You!” – Cole Martinez
• Fleshless bones, rats and maggots, burp! - Susan Ninneman
• Eyeballs pop, blood drops, lick chops - Susan Ninneman
• Stop! Come back! I’m still alive! - Julie Mayrose
• Dropped phone. Oh no, cracked screen. - Sydney Pisarski
• Dad, mom knows we watched ‘Psycho’ - Tony Liddle
• “Attention: the Earth Project has failed” - Isabel Dahlke
• Dirty fingernails, panicked breath, blinding darkness - Mercadees Schara
• Bloodcurdling scream, corpselike blur, dreadful nightmare - Whitney Guenther
• Hot breath, weight on chest, snarling - Hannah Morse
• In the shadows it lies. Waiting. - Laura Hillman
• Safe under the covers; maybe not - Sam Larsen
• Chilling graveyard, eerie fog, bloodcurdling screams - Nick Weinkauf
• Knife hidden; he rings the doorbell - Shawn Bunkelman
• Knives were removed – so was he. - McKenzie Durr
• Dead body, bloody fingers, Shia Lebouf - Justin Michalewicz
• Ominous shadows, sinister looks, eerie shrill … Macey Wirkus
• It’s gone, the life you love - Jarret Miles-Kroening
• Decapitation, murder, exorcism, screams, dead, behind. - Hugo Calderon
• He cackles from the shadows, “Soon.” - Marissa Slack
• Disappearances, monstrous howls, trapped in darkness - Scott E. Lepak
• Fastidious sadistic, constrained victim, glinting scalpel - Miranda Myszka
• Dark woods, creepy noises, howling death - Jorid Folster
• Burning flesh, deafening screams, butchering psychopath - Nataley Myszka
• Spine-chilling world, horrendous murder, bloodcurdling bath - Noah Fernbach
• Eerie graveyard, loud screams, bloody terror - Isabel Slagoski
• Child trapped down in eerie basement - Tyler Soczka
• Sinister bloodcurdling corpse in the shadows - Jesse Albert
• Screaming bloody murder and sadistic terror - Rachel Roskopf
• The sinister laughing of sadistic murders - Hanna Lang
• Ominous clouds, loud screams, bloody corpses - Dawson Berry
• Eight legs, unable to get out - Michael Wood
• Creaking hallways, bloody walls, deathly victim - Lindsey Schneeberger
• The bloodsucking sinister victim of death - Brock Mueller
• Sinister terror, trapped death, bloody corpse - Brianna Hoppenworth
• “Mommy, where did your face go?” - Allie Gall
• Quiet whispers, loud footsteps, empty house. - Samantha Schreiber
• Trips in the darkness, sticky hands. - Mckayla Drenner
• Children of Tigoku, weeping bloody tears. - Jared Garske
• Baby monitor, crying child, home alone - Kamryn Butt
• Wood creaking, blood streaking, midnight reaping. - Wesley Gust
• Basement screams, coming from your basement - Nicholas Koller
• Slowly dangling, bloody kids, “Who’s next?” - Brooke Jisko
• Dark shadow, gleaming axe, missing person. - Rose Paul
• Possessed demon, unhuman laughter, bloody mess. - Bethany Borchardt
• Bloody victim trapped in shadowy tomb. - Seth Schilling
• Bloodcurdling screams from below our feet. - Mason Guralski
• “The earth will explode in five…” - Rachel Heiden
• What’s in the corner, sadistic sloth. - Tyler Sommer
• Dark room, closing in, panic cries. - Hannah Brewster
• Revived figure, “There is no God.” - Taiyah Tarter
• The purge, chaos, violence, only death. - Tyler Engel
• Screaming girls, bloody hands, sharp knife. - Erica Lemmer
• Creaking floors, sadistic man, no survivors. - Kelsey Strobel
• Macabre basement, dark silence, metal scraping. - Lyndi Mullen
• Bloody knife, victim shadows, death trap. - Tyler Matysik
• Dark room, sinister figure, bloody footsteps. - Brett Schutte
• Gory foreign weapon, unearthly deathlike shrieks. - Alec Hafferman

]]> Chad Dally / Library Services Sat, 31 Oct 2015 13:01:49 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=1769&BlogID=112&BlogPostID=14809 Our staff at the Marathon County Public Library has launched a new service aimed at helping our patrons find their next favorite books.
The library recently set up a new page within our website called Personalized Reading Suggestions, through which we’ll rack our brains and a vast pool of online reading resources, to recommend three books based on just a few clues provided by you, the patron.
Our staff is surrounded by books all day and each of us has our own favorite genres that run the gamut, so chances are someone here shares your reading tastes. Plus, we love these kinds of challenges that usually starts a little something like this…
“I just finished The Hunger Games and Matched trilogies. Do have anything else like that?”
“I like Lee Child’s stuff, who are some other authors like him?”
Or even…
“I need something good to read, what can you recommend?”
Here’s how the Personalized Reading Suggestions works:

• Go to the Personalized Reading Suggestions page at www.mcpl.us/prs
• Tell us your name and email address, whether you prefer fiction or non-fiction and the format you prefer to read it in (such as books, audiobooks, or e-books)
• Give us the titles or authors of the last few books you read that you really liked, and why you liked them
• If you want, write a few specifics that will help us find the right books to match your taste. For example, maybe you prefer suspense and mystery novels but don’t care for excessive sex or violence. Or perhaps you’d rather read stories straight from the source in autobiographies, rather than someone else’s take in a biography. The more details we have, the better chance we have of finding good matches.
• Click submit and we promise to come back with three suggestions within four days, because (as we all know) sometimes you just don’t want to wait long before diving into a new book!

]]> Chad Dally / Library Services Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:32:35 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=1769&BlogID=112&BlogPostID=14477 Downton Abbey is here, and so is our 2015 Downton Abbey reading list! All of these titles are available in the V-cat catalog.  Contact us with any questions, or for help locating these titles.

“I want to read more about Highclere castle, the real castle where they film Downton Abbey.” Try:

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle 
by Fiona Carnarvon

“Anna and Bates are my two favorite characters! I want to read about life downstairs!” Try:

Upstairs & Downstairs: An Illustrated Guide to the Real World of Downton Abbey by Sarah Warwick
 
“Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid’s Memoir That Inspired “Upstairs, Downstairs” and Downton Abbey” by Margaret Powell

“I want to read something romantic that reminds me of Downton.” Try:

The House at Riverton: A Novel by Kate Morton

Cinders & Sapphires by Leila Rasheed

Summerset Abbey by T. J. Brown
 
“Sybil was my favorite character!” Try:

A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller

“I’d like to read about American heiresses.” Try:

The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
 
“I heard that Julian Fellowes (Downton’s creator) wrote a book.”  Yes, he did!

Snobs by Julian Fellowes

“My friend recommended a book that has Downton in the title, but I think it is set in more modern times.”  We've got it!

While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax

“Masterpiece Theatre is amazing. I want to read more about these PBS shows.” Try:

Making Masterpiece: 25 years behind the scenes at Masterpiece and Mystery on PBS by Rebecca Eaton


 

]]> Kathleen Kosiec / Library Services Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:34:08 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=1769&BlogID=112&BlogPostID=13372 Elmore Leonard, dubbed the "Dickens of Detroit," died Aug. 20 at his suburban Detroit home from complications due to a stroke. He was 87.
Leonard was known for his ferocious work ethic that produced such best-sellers as Get Shorty, Freaky Deaky and Be Cool. His distinct mix of crime and comedy led to adaptations of many of his novels and stories into films, including Get Shorty, 3:10 to Yuma, Hombre and Rum Punch, the latter adapted by director Quentin Tarantino for his film Jackie Brown.
In its rememberence the Detroit News wrote "In Leonard’s colorful world of dumb but entertaining crooks and bemused cops, there was always more than a whiff of postwar seediness and amorality."
Leonard also is known for his ten rules of writing, which he adapted into a 2007 book.

]]> Chad Dally / Library Services Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:42:49 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=1769&BlogID=112&BlogPostID=10875 From picture books to easy readers to older children's fiction, the staff at MCPL-Wausau list their favorite children's books!

]]> Marissa in Children's Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:17:15 GMT http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=1769&BlogID=112&BlogPostID=3892 Dewey is the heartwarming story of an ordinary cat who finds himself freezing cold, starving, and homeless in an extraordinary place on a bitterly cold January day—in the book drop of the Spencer Public Library.  Fortunately for him, and for the town of Spencer Iowa, he is rescued by library director, Vicki Myron, who needs some rescuing herself.  Dewey in turn rescues the library staff, and all the patrons of the library. He seems to have an uncanny sense of who needs his rescuing the most, jumps on their lap and gains their attention.  Bequeathed Dewey Readmore Books, his home and playground are the public library.  He became famous world-wide; people from all over came to see Dewey, the Library cat. 

Even if you are not a cat lover you will enjoy this true story.  It will warm your heart and renew your faith in the importance of giving and receiving love. See more information and  pictures of Dewey at the Spencer Public Library’s website.

(Request this book from the MCPL Library Catalog here.)

]]> Sharyn Heili, Librarian Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:40:49 GMT