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Hilary Mantel made history yesterday. She was the first woman and the only Briton to win the Booker Prize twice. Ms. Mantel won her second Booker for Bring Up the Bodies. She won her first in 2009 for Wolf Hall.

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One Minneapolis One Read, a community-wide book club now in its second year, is off and running with this year's selection, Spirit Car by Diane Wilson. The Minneapolis Parks & Recs, Minneapolis Public Schools and many other businesses and community organizations have encouraged a wide reading of the book, and have supported corresponding programming to foster an ongoing dialogue.

Here at HCL we are pleased to welcome author Diane Wilson to Minneapolis Central Library on Monday, October 15 at 7 p.m. Come hear the author do a reading from her book, answer questions from the audience, and sign personal copies and those for sale at the event by Magers & Quinn. It promises to be a wonderful evening.

October is the perfect month to hunker down with a blanket and a gripping novel. As the sun begins to set earlier and the weather gets colder, readers from all walks of life look forward to the escapist delights mysteries have to offer, especially in light of the ghoulish holiday that awaits us later in the month.

But for those not prone to be too scared in the midst of dark and stormy nights, the "cozy" genre of mystery provides a lovely blend of intrigue and civility. Authors of this kind know how to tell a good story that keeps you guessing, then wrap it up with a nice cup of tea. If you're interested in dipping into a mystery that won't give you nightmares, check out the Bookspace list on Cozy Mysteries for some great suggestions.

The comics anthology Tales from the Crypt no longer exists but there's still a lot of great horror comics available. Here are just a few I recommend:

George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream adapted by Daniel Abraham: vampires on a Mississippi steamboat just prior to the Civil War

The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman: humanity struggles to survive a zombie apocalypse

American Vampire by Scott Snyder & Stephen King: vampires from the old country struggle with a new breed of American vampire during the Golden Age of Hollywood

Lock & Key by Joe Hill: something monstrous and evil is trapped in a mysterious house, and the family who lives there struggles to survive

The National Book Foundation announced its 2012 finalists this morning. The non-fiction honorees, all available through the library, are:

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro

The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid

Get on the request lists now and/or check out free samples of the most of the titles via the GalleyCat blog! Winners will be announced on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.

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Werewolves and vampires and shapeshifters, oh my! Check out new releases at ParaNormal Romance and Paranormal Romance Writers.