Horror Book Club

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William Jeanes Board Room. Hurry baaack...to Horror Book Club! A book club for beginners and seasoned thrill-seekers alike! Read the suggested title OR a book that fits the monthly theme. October: Haunted House Suggested Title: This Cursed House by Del Sandeen “If she didn't inspect things too closely, she didn't see the peeling corners or the cracks.” In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts, thinking it is her chance to start over. But Jemma discovers that the Duchon family isn’t what it seems. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma. Their tenuous hold on reality extends to all the members of their eccentric clan, from haughty grandmother Honorine to beautiful yet inscrutable cousin Fosette. And soon the shocking truth comes The Duchons are under a curse. And they think Jemma has the power to break it. As Jemma wrestles with the gift she’s run from all her life, she unravels deeper and more disturbing secrets about the mysterious Duchons. Secrets that stretch back over a century. Secrets that bind her to their fate if she fails. We will be meeting in-person AND on Zoom!

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