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Dean Koontz, author of Going Home in the Dark

As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams --- and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But they begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him. For Rebecca, Bobby and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems.

Week of September 22, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of September 22nd include INTERMEZZO, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family --- but especially love --- from Sally Rooney; GOING HOME IN THE DARK by Dean Koontz, a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets that threaten to be unearthed when hometown horrors come back to haunt; H. W. Brands' AMERICA FIRST, which recounts the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures --- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh; SHE-WOLVES, in which award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the propulsive story of how women infiltrated Wall Street from the swinging '60s to 9/11; and the paperback original FAMOUS by Blake Crouch, a darkly comedic psychological suspense novel about a man who goes to terrifying extremes to adopt his celebrity doppelgänger's life.