Horicon Free Public Library

Horicon Free Public Library The Horicon Free Public Library is a community and family oriented library dedicated to community growth.

Closed Monday, September 7th, for Labor Day.
09/05/2026

Closed Monday, September 7th, for Labor Day.

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM by Tessa YangDr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best...
09/03/2026

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!

THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM by Tessa Yang

Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. So she spends her days hidden away at an underfunded aquarium with her specimens and a draft of the jellyfish guide she and Aldo had been working on together. His voice is alive in the notes in the margins, and it’s enough. Almost.

Until she receives a call from Nadia, one of the few other humans she’s loved but whom she hasn’t heard from in years, asking for her help. Nadia tells her a grand tale of a giant jellyfish terrorizing her tiny island off the coast of Maine and sends a grainy video of the creature. Frankly, the footage looks fake, but Jo drops everything to fly across the country to see Nadia again, and to find this supposed sea beast. She couldn’t save Aldo, but perhaps she can help Nadia.

But when Jo arrives on Shattering Point, Nadia is nowhere to be found, and the islanders she meets each have something different to say about the creature they’ve dubbed Clementine . . . a jellyfish who changes all who see it.

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!CHILDREN OF THE WILD by Kevin PowersEwer’s Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restle...
09/02/2026

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!

CHILDREN OF THE WILD by Kevin Powers

Ewer’s Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge to modernize his family’s farm and bring them properly into the twentieth century.

Samantha Hatton, the minister’s daughter and Roy’s best friend since childhood, knows that both Roy and the town expect them to marry. But Samantha, a daring and ambitious young woman, hungers for more.

Above them on the mountain, tending to a lost herd of cattle, is silent Ennis Duke, the mysterious wild boy whose arrival in the valley will upend Ewer’s Rock’s understanding of itself and its place in the world.

Within a year, the lives of these three young people will be dramatically transformed. America has joined the Great War, and Roy and Ennis feel duty-bound to join the fight. In the crucible of conflict, thousands of miles from the familiarity of home, the two men forge a fierce bond. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Samantha’s love and courage endure unthinkable sacrifice in a corner of the world fractured by violence.

With the spare and exquisite prose and the profound insight that made The Yellow Birds a landmark work of American fiction, Kevin Powers illuminates the savage, complex, and timeless bonds of loyalty, honor, and heroism. Children of the Wild captures what it means to be human in times of loss—and how, even in darkness, the light of friendship and love endures.

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!TENDERNESS by Rowan BeairdOn a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and f...
09/01/2026

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!

TENDERNESS by Rowan Beaird

On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O’Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon. Why would someone like Shay, an Ivy League graduate with a wealthy, doting fiancée, join Synanon? And has she really escaped their grasp?

Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay’s brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, Tenderness is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding day approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay’s story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!THE INTRIGUE by Silvia Moreno-GarciaHandsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lone...
08/29/2026

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!

THE INTRIGUE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won’t last forever, and he’s desperate to get his hands on a real fortune.

He thinks he’s found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn’t expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household.

When Inés discovers Ulises’s true intentions, she wants in on the scheme. They’ll convince her aunt that Ulises is a great catch, Perla will marry him, and her money will vanish. Easy, fast, and clean. But Perla is not the desperate, silly spinster Ulises imagines. She harbors secrets. And although Ulises does not believe in true romance, Inés is more alluring than he bargained for. Suddenly, a simple plan may become perilously complicated.

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO by Matt DinnimanThe aliens have come, and they’ve transform...
08/28/2026

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!

CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO by Matt Dinniman

The aliens have come, and they’ve transformed Earth into a multilevel, video game–like dungeon. It’s the newest season of the galaxy’s most watched game show, Dungeon Crawler World. Now on the third floor, Carl and Donut have to fight harder than ever. They’ve already proven that a Coast Guard vet and once-and-forever feline royalty are an almost unstoppable team. Their ratings are off the charts. Viewers can’t get enough. But the dungeon gets more dangerous each day, and now there’s a whole new problem to deal with: Quests.

They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered women rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Can Carl and Donut solve the mystery in time?

And can Carl finally find some pants?

New to our ADULT DVD collection!PROJECT HAIL MARYScience teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship lig...
08/24/2026

New to our ADULT DVD collection!

PROJECT HAIL MARY

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientifi c knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

New to our ADULT DVD collection!NORMALFor Sheriff Ulysses (Bob Odenkirk), a new job in the quaint Midwestern town of Nor...
08/24/2026

New to our ADULT DVD collection!

NORMAL

For Sheriff Ulysses (Bob Odenkirk), a new job in the quaint Midwestern town of Normal was meant to be a welcome respite from his marital woes and recent injuries in the line of duty. When a botched bank robbery interrupts the peace, a sordid secret is exposed, and Ulysses discovers that the town is anything but its namesake. A double-barreled sh***un blast of pure mayhem.

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS by Georgia McVeighThe story of two people, both as magnetic as t...
08/22/2026

New to our ADULT FICTION collection!

SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS by Georgia McVeigh

The story of two people, both as magnetic as they are dangerous, who get caught in an electric game of cat and mouse

The question is, Who is the predator and who is the prey?

Meet Iris: a dark soul with a propensity for obsession, still reeling from a recent loss, who relies on a local grief group to keep her grounded and out of trouble. And now meet Jack: a cagey widower who shows up at a meeting one night and jolts both of them back to life.

From the moment Jack first takes a shabby plastic chair in the circle, he is positively dashing. And Iris can’t help but feel that fate has brought them together.

But their chance encounter sends them racing through a series of hairpin twists where nothing is as it seems and no one plays by the rules. As Iris is drawn deeper into Jack’s world, she begins to realize that her own deceptions may be no match—or maybe they're the perfect match?—for all the dirty secrets Jack has been hiding.

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