%%ohp-start%% %%ohp-book-start-159170-2016%% ## My Best Friend's Exorcism Status: Read > [!summary]+ > > [!figure-right-s]  > > 1988. Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act--different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries--and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil? Genres: #book-genre/thriller, #book-genre/young-adult, #book-genre/fiction, #book-genre/history, #book-genre/friendship, #book-genre/humor, #book-genre/fantasy, #book-genre/horror-comedy [Hardcover.app](https://hardcover.app/books/my-best-friends-exorcism) %%ohp-book-personal%% %%ohp-book-end-159170-2016%% %%ohp-book-start-1168736-2024%% ## Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Status: Want to Read > [!summary]+ > > [!figure-right-s]  > > There’s power in a book… > > They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. > > Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. > > Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood. > > In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR). > > Genres: #book-genre/horror, #book-genre/fantasy, #book-genre/fiction, #book-genre/suspense [Hardcover.app](https://hardcover.app/books/witchcraft-for-wayward-girls) %%ohp-book-personal%% %%ohp-book-end-1168736-2024%% %%ohp-end%%