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Fall is here and that means leaves are changing color, the temperature is cooling down, and pumpkins are everywhere. Whether fall reading means you are looking for a charming book to enjoy, or a moody, atmospheric book to give you chills, we've got you covered. Enjoy these suggestions? Looking for a new book to read? Book Match is a book recommendation program offered through AC Library. Check out the website at the top of the list to go to the Book Match page.

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  • Fill out a survey with information about your reading tastes, and one of our matchmakers will send you a personalized reading list within two weeks. You can select a specific matchmaker, or you can fill out a general survey and one of the…
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  • Two young dragon caregivers are slowly learning how to care for their dragons, and reiterates the strong friendships and relationships built throughout the other books. A sweet ending to the Tea Dragon graphic novels (3 books in all).
    Graphic Novel, 2021Portland, OR : Oni-Lion Fogre Publishing Group, LLC, 2021
  • A look through the fall season, told poem by poem in this wonderful picture book.
    Picture Book, 2016New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
  • "The Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes face a pumpkin snatcher and a haunted farm in the fourth cozy mystery of the Edgar Award-nominated middle grade series."
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2023]
  • "Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she's about to discover that witches aren't just the stuff of movies, books, and spooky stories. When some eighth-grade bullies try to ruin her Halloween, something really strange happens. It…
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York, New York : Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2019]
  • Legends & Lattes

    a Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

    Baldree, Travis, 1977-
    Viv (orc mercenary) is finishing one last job and then retiring to a small town to follow her dream: opening a coffee shop. Except no one in Thune knows what coffee is, and rivals from her past (and present) threaten her new business. A delightful…
    Book, 2022New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2022
  • "Embracing a sweet escape from her usual routine at The Cookie Jar, Hannah gets asked for her help in baking pastries at the local inn for a flashy fishing competition with big prizes and even bigger names. But the fun stops when she spots a runaway…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2022
  • "Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut. Then she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the local library-- which comes complete with its own ghost."
    Book, 2017New York : Crooked Lane, 2017
  • Pumpkin Spice Peril

    Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series, Book 12

    McKinlay, Jenn,
    "Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake bakers--Melanie Cooper is engaged to the delectable Joe DeLaura, Angie Harper and her husband Tate are savoring married life, and the bakery is bustling with happy customers. Until one of their…
    eBook, 2020New York : Penguin Publishing Group, 2020
  • "Shiloh Bellamy saved her father's farm and is finally scraping by as a sustainable and organic farmer in Michigan. Since moving back, she has reconnected with old friends, including her best friend Kristy Brewer and Kristy's husband, Caine. Caine…
    eBook, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2022]
  • When the school bus breaks down on a mist-shrouded road on the way home from a field trip, Ollie and her friends must outwit the Smiling Man to save their classmates and themselves.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018]
  • "Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three…
    Book, 2002New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2002
  • "After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's…
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020]
  • "As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters--her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, [2023]
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    and Other Stories From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

    Irving, Washington, 1783-1859,
    "Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, eerie midnight shrieks and howls, but most of all they talk of the Headless Horseman. A huge, shadowy soldier…
    Book, 2006New York : Signet Classics, [2006]