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Sep 29

Explore the world of the undead at your library!

Posted to Book Notes on September 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM by Genesis Gaule

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Zombie Felties

Wed, Oct 13 @ 6:00 pm

Ages 12-18 // Stitch the undead into life at this creepy-cool craft event inspired by Zombie Felties! You'll create your own spooky squad—from zombie puppies to vampire bunnies—in less than an hour per creature. All supplies provided!


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by Olivia Dade 

DADE 

When Edie Brandstrup attempts to save her sweet, seemingly harmless human neighbor from the first major zombie breach in two decades, she’s stunned to be saved by him, and his ridiculously large sword instead. As it turns out, he's actually a super-old, super-surly vampire. But for all her neighbor's newly revealed cynicism and lethality, Gaston "Max" Boucher (yes, Gaston) is unexpectedly protective. He wants her to stay in his safety bunker until the breach is resolved. Edie can’t risk more innocent people getting killed, though, and Max won’t let her save them alone. 


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Seth Grahame-Smith 

Audiobook GRAHAME-SMITH 

Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature’s most enduring novel. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers, and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. It’s the perfect read for literature lovers, zombie fans, and anyone who loves a reanimated Austen. 


Secret of the Summer School Zombies

by Scott Nickel 

Junior Graphic Novel NICKEL 

Trevor thought nothing could be worse than spending the entire summer in school. Then his teachers turn into homework-crazed creatures! Now Trevor and his friend Filbert must find a way to stop the zombies. Or they'll be trapped inside the classroom of doom forever! 


The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade!

by Max Brallier 

Junior BRALLIER Last Kids v.2

The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies, but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose? 


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Jan 27

What’s New at the Campbell Library?

Posted to Book Notes on January 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM by Genesis Gaule

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What’s New at the Campbell Library?  

New Year, New Books - Stop in and check out some of the new titles we have recently added to our collection! 


A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer

by Maxie Dara 

Mystery DARA S.C.Y.T.H.E. v.1

It’s not like it used to be. Modern-day grim reapers wear business casual, not black cloaks, and they don’t carry scythes, they work for S.C.Y.T.H.E. where the Department of Natural Causes is the least exciting gig. And that’s how Kathy Valence likes it: boring and predictable. Then, she goes to pick up a new client and finds his soul is missing. When she finally tracks down Conner Ortiz, he angrily insists he was murdered, and he refuses to move on until Kathy finds out why and by whom. 


Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

by J. Ryan Stradal 

STRADAL

Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband, Ned, is having an identity crisis; her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day; and her mother, Florence, is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in Mariel’s family for decades, but it also caused a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed. Ned is also an heir, to a chain of home-style diners, and he knows his family's chain could provide a better future than his wife's fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear. Can they find a way to rebuild their lives, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation? 


The Story of the Forest

by Linda Grant 

GRANT 

It’s 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks, an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. Intending to save her from further corruption, and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family’s life, Mina and her eldest brother, Jossel, board a ship to England. 


Cher: The Memoir (Part 1)

by Cher 

MEMOIR - Perform - - CHER 2024

After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist. As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century. 


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Sep 25

Book Notes 9/25/2023

Posted to Book Notes on September 25, 2023 at 9:43 AM by Genesis Gaule

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9/25/2023

Kids in grades K-5: Join us Thursday, September 28 @ 4 pm for Tinkertown! Learn about the upcoming solar eclipse as we test out materials that will keep us safe from UV radiation.


Personality Disorders

A short history of narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, and other types
by Allan V. Horwitz

Call Number: 616.85 HORWITZ

The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consistently caused controversy among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists. In this book, Allan V. Horwitz traces the evolution of defining these disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them into traditional medical conceptions of disorder.


The Block Party

by Jamie Day

Call Number: Mystery DAY

The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold—discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing—and no one—is ever as it seems.


Camera Girl

The coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Call Number: 921 KENNEDY

The book brings to cinematic life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream career as a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her late college years and her early adulthood as a working woman.


The September House

by Carissa Orlando

Call Number: ORLANDO

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.  Margaret is not most people.


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