Quirk Books Summer Reads

Genres: Fantasy; Horror; Police Procedurals

Synopsis

This sampler rounds up some of the best fiction that Quirk Books has to offer...
 
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in the #1 New York Times best selling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.
 
The Last Policeman - What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die? Detective Hank Palace has asked this question ever since an asteroid hovered into view on a collision course with planet Earth. The Last Policeman offers a story we’ve never read before: a police procedural set on the brink of an apocalypse.
 
Bedbugs - An understated horror story filled with loving references to Rosemary's Baby and other classic tales of urban paranoia, Bedbugs will keep your skin crawling into the wee hours of the night.
 
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - This New York Times best seller features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action.
 
Night of the Living Trekkies - This sci-fi/zombie/comedy/adventure tale follows a group of rag-tag Trekkies getting together for the fifth annual GulfCon--but soon find themselves defending their hotel and convention center against hordes of flesh-eating undead.
 
Taft 2012 - He is the perfect presidential candidate. There’s just one problem: He is William Howard Taft . . . and he was already U.S. president a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing alive and well and considering a running mate in 2012?

Release date: June 26, 2012

Publisher: Quirk Books

Print pages: 389