This February there’s something for everyone jumping from the shelves to the big screen! Whether you’re a movie lover or a binge watcher there’s an adaptation coming for you. These our the picks that we’re looking forward to!
The Black Phone: Stories
by Joe Hill
“The Black Phone” is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hill’s first story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts–the inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).
Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie
Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries. The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life.
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
by Terry Pratchett
It’s time for the rats to tell their side of the Pied Piper story. Think rats can’t talk? These rats can, and not only that, they also read, disarm mousetraps, and concoct schemes with a genius cat known as the Amazing Maurice.
Mothering Sunday: A Romance
by Graham Swift
On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair–but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted.
A world-famous pop star, frustrated with her love life, marries a random fan holding a MARRY ME sign at one of her concerts.
Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth
by Christopher Golden
Nathan Drake, treasure hunter and risk taker, has been called to New York City by the man who taught him everything. It appears that a fourth labyrinth was built in another land and another culture–and within it lies a key to unmatched wealth and power.
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by Jessica Bruder
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that Social Security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road to form a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.”
