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Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate--zero--is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She can't--or won't-answer any questions. She won't even tell them...
2) Little Lucy
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Language
English
Description
When Lucy the beagle goes to a lake with Bobby and his family, she does not want to go in the water and, instead, has an adventure on her own.
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Will this be the best week of their lives... or the last? Julia, David, and Erika grew up together spending summers at their idyllic Vermont lake homes for as long as they can remember. Now adults--with their own sullen teens, endless mortgages, and low-voltage sex lives--the three friends have amassed secrets over the years. This summer, David is eager to show off his newly renovated home--which now blocks his friends' cherished lake views--and...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
179 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"When Harper Reed Prescott returns to her family's eerie Victorian house on Lake Twilight to sell it, old rumors of murder and disappearance resurface, along with chilling memories, unsettling whispers and the terrifying suspicion that someone is watching her"-- Provided by publisher.
The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie's search for the truth about her mother-and herself-plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter"-- Provided by publisher.
8) Greenteeth
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Her name is Jenny Greenteeth, and she is hungry and ready to pounce. . . . She has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake by an angry mob, something makes Jenny decide she's worth saving instead of eating. Soon she learns that the witch's once-peaceful village has suddenly turned against her-- and that it has something to do with the malevolent...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 161 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate glimpse into the life of a teenager whose coming of age will herald a new age for her world. Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, this is the first in the She Who Knows trilogy"-- Provided by publisher.
When there is a call, there is often a response. Najeeba knows. She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Description
Francie, seventeen, leaves summer school and auditions in New York City for Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota when her great-aunts call and ask for her help investigating a mystery that centers on a road no one wants built, and on the legendary treasure said to be under enchantment.
Author
Publisher
Forever
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When young bride-to-be Zoey Hillcrest chooses the newly refurbished Inn at Mirror Lake for her destination wedding, life in the small Rocky Mountain town will never be the same for Genevieve Prentice and her sister Helen McDaniel. A chance run-inafter Zoey's arrival turns the sisters' worlds upside down as they discover a family secret and a niece they never existed. What follows is nothing short of a trope-fest: broken engagements, family betrayal,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
321 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since there wasn't enough proof to convict Alva's father for the murder of her mother, she's been forced to live in his house in Ormscaula, Scotland, being raised by the man she holds responsible for her motherlessness. His family has been called guardians of the loch for generations, and now it falls to her to monitor the water levels, despite not knowing what she's watching for -- or what may be watching her back.
13) The saw mouth
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Publication Date
[2026]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Follows a trans teen who survives a near-apocalypse, only to be hunted by a mysterious monster whose very existence is entwined with their own"-- Provided by publisher.
"When Cedar was a child, fragmented, tortured souls woke up in the world's most complex machines, destroying them and pushing technology back decades. A fall. The Fall, some said, and they called it Autumn. Ten years later, following a family tragedy, Cedar moves to the nowhere town...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
341, 11 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Butternut Lake is an idyllic place--but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet... Sometimes life changes in an instant. Quinn LaPointe grew up on beautiful Butternut Lake, safe, secure, sure of her future. But after a high school tragedy, she left for college and never looked back. Becoming a successful writer in Chicago, she worked to keep out the dark memories of an accident that upended her life. But now,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she's not tending the store, she's hunting cryptids--creatures whose existence is rumored but never proven to be real....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a nail-biting supernatural horror about a haunted lakeside property and twisted family secrets. When Samantha Payne's grandfather dies, she figures she won't even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn't seen him in fourteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. Her grandfather always insisted her father...
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 33 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Eric the duck is nervous to swim in the lake for fear a monster might live there, but he bravely follows his friends and discovers something spectacular indeed lives beneath the surface"-- Provided by publisher.
18) Our lake
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two grieving brothers visit the lake their father took them to for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Publication Date
[2006], ©1996
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A Native American girl's feelings are hurt when schoolmates make fun of the children who live at the lake, but then her grampa tells her a Seneca folktale that reminds her how much she appreciates her home and her place in the world.
20) Underlake
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two women explore a mysterious underwater town in search of a missing daughter"-- Provided by publisher.
"Thirteen years ago, Otta escaped the small town of Steels, intent upon becoming a marine biologist. Now she's returned, having failed to achieve her dream, and carrying the guilt of a friend's death during a deep-sea dive. She thinks she may never dive again, but then a stranger appears at her door. This stranger, May, says that her daughter...








