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 Book of the Month
Hold Me Closer Necromancer by Lish McBride
Sam Lacroix has some serious issues. He's a young college dropout, a burger flipper, and a neighbor to an elderly lady with more of a night life than he's ever had. Sam's only bright spot is playing potato hockey in the fast food parking lot. When a renegade tater obliterates a car's tail light, everything takes a turn for the weird.
The car belongs to Douglas, dark and chilling, who senses forces beyond Sam's ordinary powers of sarcasm and apathy. The most prominent of those powers is raising the dead. Douglas doesn't like competition. He too is a necromancer. Sam's must learn his abilities quickly, or else someone else will have to reanimate his corpse for him.
Made up of equal parts horror and humor, the dialogue buzzes with fast-paced wisecracks and pop cultural references from Sam and his buddies. "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's spatula," warns his best friend Ramon. Sam has a snappy answer for every situation, even when that situation involves a zombiefied panda bear.
McBride's debut novel is a refreshing take on the paranormal genre. More fun than a rousing game of "Guess What I Put in the Fryer," Hold Me Closer, Necromancer has got the goods and is worthy of any teen who like their frights to come with laughs.
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Teacher Toolbox 
Book Group in a Bag is the perfect way to reserve multiple copies of a single book for a class lesson, afterschool activity, or book club. From popular titles to award-winning classics, we have novels for every age group. Not only have we added more titles in the past year, there are also more searching options to identify the right book for you and your students. Click here to see the selection.
Each bag checks out for 6 weeks and includes 10 copies of the title requested. You can browse for titles by genre or age level. The Book Group Reservation Calendar will allow you to see what has been reserved and what is still available. Found one that you would like to get? You can request your bag a full year in advance!
This service is available to all CRRL cardholders, so be sure act fast and reserve your Book Group in a Bag early!
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Food for Fines
Help us celebrate Teen Read Week and help our community! During the week of October 16-22 for every canned good that you bring to your local library branch (nothing expired, nothing dented) we'll deduct a dollar from your overdue fines, up to a maximum amount of $10.00! 1 canned item = $1.00 applied to one patron account. Donations may not be used to pay for lost or damaged library materials. All donations benefit local area food banks. No donationswill be accepted before October 2 or after October 16.
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