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by Stephen King - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas. President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this tour de force, Stephen King takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

by Kim Edwards - Fiction

When Lucy Jarrett receives a message that her mother has been in an accident, she returns home from Japan, where she lives with her boyfriend. Upon returning home, she is lured back into her past by resurfaced childhood memories, family secrets, and a former boyfriend who was her first love. 

by David Baldacci - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

John Puller is a combat vet and new the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. He is called out on a case in a remote, rural area far from any military outpost and finds that he is truly one man against an overwhelming force.

by Cynthia Ozick - Fiction, Historical Fiction

FOREIGN BODIES retells the story of Henry James’s classic THE AMBASSADORS but as a photographic negative --- that is, the plot is the same, but the meaning entirely reversed.  

by Matthew Gallaway - Fiction

 

An unlikely quartet of troubled strangers is bound together across centuries and continents by the strange and spectacular history of Richard Wagner’s masterpiece opera, 

Erin Brockovich with CJ Lyons - Fiction, Thriller

Ten years ago, pregnant teenager Angela Joy Palladino fled her hometown of Scotia, West Virginia, and became an environmental activist. Now, desperate for money, she takes on a project that will force her to return to Scotia and confront everything she thought she had left behind.

by Jim Harrison - Fiction, Mystery

On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins to investigate a hedonistic cult. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his 16-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized.

by Richard Doetsch - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

A district attorney wakes up with no memory of the previous night to find that he has made the front page of the newspaper --- as a murder victim. 

by Lisa Scottoline - Fiction, Mystery

When Anne Murphy, a redheaded smart, gorgeous, and young rookie at a Philadelphia law firm returns from a weekend away, her own photo is plastered all over the newspapers' front page proclaiming her murder. Anne sets out to find her killer, playing dead in order to stay alive. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, defend the lawsuit, and fight her urge to sleep with the enemy.

by Charles Frazier - Fiction, Suspense

Set in a small town in North Carolina in the early 1960s, NIGHTWOODS tells of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins. Before the children, Luce was content with her quiet life amidst the Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the community around her. But the coming of her disturbed niece and nephew changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful and dangerous ways.