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Sworn to Silence

Linda Castillo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A killer is preying on sacred ground....

In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community....

 
 
Life Expectancy: A Novel

Dean R Koontz · Bantam
Pages: 335
Format: Hardcover

With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary...
 
 
Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 864
Format: Paperback

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize - winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest...
 
 
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

Stephen King · Doubleday
Pages: 1152
Format: Hardcover

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied...
 
 
The Johnstown Flood

David McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families...
 
 
Killing Floor

Lee Child · Berkley Trade
Pages: 407
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A terrifying thriller that's unforgettable.

"I was eating eggs and drinking coffee. I was in a booth, at a window, reading somebody's abandoned newspaper. Outside, the rain had stopped but the glass was still pebbled with bright drops. I saw the police cruisers pull...

 
 
Cutting for Stone: A novel

Abraham Verghese · Knopf
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital...
 
 
The Wright Brothers

David G McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestseller

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North...
 
 
The husband's secret

Liane Moriarty · Berkley
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES.

One of the Best Books of the Year - Entertainment Weekly
One of the Top Ten Books of the Year - People magazine

At the heart of The Husband's Secret is a letter that's not meant...

 
 
Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again."

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that...

 
 
The Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition

John Steinbeck · Viking
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievement

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma...

 
 
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories

George Eliot · Barnes & Noble Classics
Pages: 320
Format: Book

"Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, " by George Eliot, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"""series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
 
 
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child.

No Middle Name begins with "Too Much...
 
 
The World According to Garp

John Irving · Dutton Adult
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover

The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love."

While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left...
 
 
The Magus

Fowles, John · Dell
Pages: 668
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal.

Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship...
 
 
At Home in Mitford

Jan Karon · Penguin Books
Pages: 446
Format: Paperback

The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's beloved series set in America's favorite small town: Mitford.

It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable....