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Dean Koontz, author of The Bad Weather Friend

Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée and his favorite chair. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. Stranger yet is what’s inside the crate. He’s a seven-foot-tall self-described “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. He’ll find Benny’s enemies and deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn’t such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation. In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure.

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Week of July 15, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of July 15th include THE EXCHANGE, a stunning legal thriller from John Grisham that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of THE FIRM; UNNATURAL DEATH, the 27th thrilling installment in Patricia Cornwell's Dr. Kay Scarpetta series, in which the chief medical examiner finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement; BOLDLY GO, an inspiring, revelatory and exhilarating collection of essays from living legend William Shatner, who reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration; and WOMEN WE BURIED, WOMEN WE BURNED, a riveting memoir of survival, self-discovery and forgiveness from award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder, who has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives and now tells her own story.

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