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Max Brooks, author of Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Offering a glorious back-to-nature experience with all the comforts of high-speed internet, solar smart houses, and the assurance of being mere hours from Seattle by highway, Greenloop was indeed a paradise --- until Mount Rainier erupted, leaving its residents truly cut off from the world, and utterly unprepared for the consequences. With no weapons and their food supplies dwindling, Greenloop’s residents slowly realized that they were in a fight for survival. And as the ash swirled and finally settled, they found themselves facing a specter none of them could have predicted --- or even thought possible. Max Brooks brings to light the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own investigations into the massacre that followed and the legendary beasts behind it.

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Week of February 8, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of February 8th include 28 SUMMERS, Elin Hilderbrand's novel that explores the agony and romance of a one-weekend-per-year affair and the dramatic ways this relationship complicates and enriches her characters' lives, and the lives of the people they love; MASKED PREY, the 30th installment in John Sandford's Prey series, in which Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians; HIT LIST, which finds Stuart Woods' protagonist, Stone Barrington, facing down a vengeful miscreant who has put a hit out on him --- leading to an international cat-and-mouse hunt that has Stone questioning if he has become the predator or the prey; OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore, a remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of order; and WASHINGTON'S END, the astonishing true story of George Washington’s forgotten last years, as told by popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn.

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