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11/22/63 On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you King, Stephen could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time Pages: 849 to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force. FIC KIN Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.

The Scorpio Races Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt Stiefvater, Maggie to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Pages: 409 Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and FIC STI if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

The Racketeer Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Grisham, John Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Pages: 340 Maryland.

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The True On a long, grueling journey from England to Rhode Island in Confessions of 1802, a 12 year old changes from a prim and proper girl to a Charlotte Doyle swashbuckling mate of a mutinous crew and is accused of murder by the captain. Awash with shipboard activity, intense Avi feelings, and a keen sense of time and place, the story is a throwback to good old-fashioned adventure yarns on the high Pages: 232 seas.

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The Alchemist Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried Coelho, Paulo treasure, but through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the Pages: 197 value of the treasures found within himself.

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I Am the Cheese 14-year-old Adam Farmer’s whole life has been fiction. His identity altered and a new family history created. Suddenly Cormier, Robert nothing is as it once seemed; he can trust no one, maybe not even himself. It is exactly this revelation that turns Adam’s life Pages: 256 upside down. As he tries to ascertain who he really is, he encounters a past, present, and future too horrible to FIC COR contemplate.

The Hound of the Upon hearing Dr. James Mortimer's saga of the haunted Baskervilles Baskerville family and the recent death of family head Sir Charles Baskerville, apparently from the hound of the legend, Doyle, Arthur Holmes and Watson begin their investigation. When the Conan estate's heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, arrives in London from Canada strange things immediately occur and Holmes Pages: 250 dispatches Watson to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall. FIC DOY

Paper Towns Quentin or Q has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo from afar. So when she cracks open a Green, John window and climbs back into his life, dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he Pages: 305 follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has now become a FIC GRE mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues – and they're for him.

It They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who King, Stephen had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that Pages: 1093 drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. FIC KIN

Life of Pi Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the Martel, Yann age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving Page: 401 him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company. FIC MAR

Bel Canto A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice Patchett, Ann president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, Pages: 318 united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano. FIC PAT

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue." Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most 39 Clues powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues Riordan, Rick hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, Pages: 224 and young Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting F RIO clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.

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Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His planned lecture is interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five The Lost Symbol symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially Brown, Dan dangerous wisdom. When his mentor Peter Solomon —a longstanding Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Pages: 509 Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of F BRO Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth …..

Frannie O'Neil is a young and talented veterinarian living in When the Wind Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David Blows a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. Is is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled Patterson, James and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. With Pages: 416 breathtaking energy, 11 year old Max leads Frannie and Kit to uncover one of the most diabolical and inhuman plots of modern F WHE science.

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life--dressed like a ninja and Paper Towns summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge--he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at Green, John school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues--and they're for Pages: 305 him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew. Printz medalist John Green F GRE returns with the brilliant wit and searing emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers. Enigmatic Margo is dramatically captured in a unique dual-cover treatment

Lean Mean New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of her ex-husband, and along with her Thirteen boyfriend, police officer Joe Morelli, she tries to clear her name; Evanovich, Janet discovering her ex had been involved with a shady group of criminals who believe she is in possession of a lot of their money. F EVA

Storm Front For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a Butcher, Jim grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing Pages: 322 dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. F BUT

Imprints When young Victoria vanishes without a trace, her heartbroken parents turn to the last prospect they can find for hope. Autumn Rain receives Nunes, Rachel Ann impressions --feelings, or imprints-- left behind on certain objects that were treasured by their owners. Victoria's parents view Autumn's Pages: 337 unusual talent as a special gift, and hope she can shed light on their F NUN daughter's last thoughts. Private detective Keefe McConnell, whose widowed sister disappeared under similar circumstances, urges Autumn to help, but her involvement sets in motion a series of events that risk not only her own life, but the lives of those she cares about most.

All Around the Traumatized by abuse suffered after she was kidnapped at age four Town and held for two years, a twenty-one-year-old college senior who has Clark, Mary Higgins developed multiple personalities finds herself accused of murdering her college professor. Pages: 341

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Holes As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they Sachar, Louis attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his Pages: 233 first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

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Seattle is a city paralyzed by fear. A serial killer is loose on its

streets. And as each new victim surfaces-chest slashed, eyes taped UnderCurrents open-the tide of panic rises. Driven by guilt and frustration, too exhausted to consider stopping, Detective Lou Boldt thinks he's Pearson, Ridley finally gotten the break he needs to end the Cross Killer's twisted spree. But each new clue contradicts another. And each new corpse Pages: 435 mocks Boldt's efforts. To fathom the silent tale told by the latest corpse washed up in Puget Sound, Boldt has to go beyond every F PEA state-of-the-art method at his disposal. But as he gets closer to the truth, he travels deeper into the tortured mind of a relentless killer...into the depths of his own fear...and into a whirlpool of madness more frightening than his worst nightmares.

Eve, a runaway, finds a new job at a coffee shop on the outskirts of

Tuscon. When she's approached by two wealthy teens who claim she Ghost Flower bears an uncanny resemblance to their missing cousin Aurora, her life takes a turn for the dark and mysterious. Drawn into a scheme to win Jaffe, Michelle Aurora's inheritance, Eve finds herself impersonating the girl, who disappeared three years ago on the night her best friend Elizabeth Pages: 358 died. But when Liza's ghost begins to haunt Eve, doing harm to the people close to her under the guise of "protecting" her, Eve finds F JAF herself in a nightmare maze of lies and deception that leads her to question even her own identity. She realizes her only chance is to uncover the truth about what happened the night Liza died, and to find Liza's killer - before she's next.

The Lost Scrolls Harry must find a sacred scroll that holds the key to saving his friends Heimerdinger, Chris who are in the grasp of an evil sorcerer.

Pages: 279 Harry and Meagan face the awesome challenges of courage and survival in the hostile world of Jerusalem in 70 A.D F HEI

Point Blank

Coulter, Catherine FBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most explosive case of their careers, pitting them against an unstable villain-with a Pages: 420 very long memory. F COU

Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man The Whole Truth Creel retains to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an Baldacci, David even grander plan in mind. Shaw, a man with no first name and a truly unique past, has a Pages: 513 different agenda. Reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi- national intelligence agency, he travels the globe to keep it safe and F BAL at peace. Willing to do anything to get back to the top of her profession, Katie James is a journalist who has just gotten the break of a lifetime: the chance to interview the sole survivor of a massacre

Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious The Bourne Betrayal shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his Ludlum’s, Robert hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear Pages: 486 armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn't F LUD realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne's every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America

A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. Darkfall Dark Fall focuses on two main characters. The first is a man from Jamaica named Baba Lavelle. Lavelle has come to New York City to get Koontz, Dean revenge on a Mafia family who was responsible for the death of his brother. Lavelle is a bocor, which means that he specializes in voodoo Pages: 371 involving the black arts. Four corpses have been found and they are all high ranking officials in F KOO the Mafia family. This is where the second character of the story comes in. Jack Dawson is a cop who has been working the case. All

four bodies appear to have been bitten to death, and they were all behind locked doors and most of the time under security. Jack and his partner Rebecca cannot figure out what is killing these men, or how it is being done.

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and

shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i- toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield The Diviners girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, Bray, Libby and the Occult--also known as "The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies."

Pages: 578 When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her F BRA uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer--if he doesn't catch her first.

Term Limits In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking Flynn, Vince ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach— Pages: not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are F FLY elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O’Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country’s

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The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak The Hunchback show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his Assignments appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania’s efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on the streets of London to fend for himself. Slade, Arthur When he encounters Octavia Milkweed, another Association agent, the Pages: 278 two uncover a plot by the Clockword Guild behind the murders of important men. Furthermore, a mad scientist is turning orphan children F SLA into automatons to further the goals of the Guild. Modo and Octavia journey deep into the tunnels under London and discover a terrifying plot against the British government. It’s up to them to save their country.

The Space between This story was supposed to be about Evie how she hasn't made a friend Trees in years, how she tends to stretch the truth (especially about her so-

called relationship with college drop-out Jonah Luks), and how she finally Williams, Katie comes into her own once she learns to just be herself but it isn't. Pages: 280 Because when her classmate Elizabeth "Zabet" McCabe's murdered body is found in the woods, everything changes and Evie's life is never the F WIL same again.

The Tale of the Body Thief

For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the Rice, Anne dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. Pages: 448 So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever... F RIC

Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer from England, travels to the Eastern Dracula European country of Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Stoker, Bram Dracula, conclude a property deal. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to help him with all the legal details. Harker, Pages: 461 although first impressed by Dracula's charm and politeness, soon begins to worry about the Count's uncanny ability to communicate with F STO wolves, and also by the lack of servants (or anyone else) in the Count's huge castle. Soon after, Harker realizes that he's a prisoner in the castle…

Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a The Bonesetters tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, Daughter LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . . Tan, Amy In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures Pages: 400 a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong F TAN LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.

Escape from Fire Mountain

Paulsen, Gary Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to Pages: 67 become one of the fire's victims F PAU

Ever wonder who was the first kid to keep a wallet on a big chunky chain,

or wear way-too-big pants on purpose? What about the mythical first guy who wore his baseball cap backwards? These are the Innovators, the people on the very cusp of cool. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Braque's job So Yesterday is finding them for the retail market. But when a big-money client disappears, Hunter must use all his cool- Westerfeld, Scott hunting talents to find her. Along the way he's drawn into a web of brand- Pages: 256 name intrigue-a missing cargo of the coolest shoes he's ever seen, ads for products that don't exist, and a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall F WES of consumerism as we know it.

Amy Harris's life changed forever when They took over. Her parents— vanished. The government—obsolete. Societal structure—nonexistent. No one knows where They came from, but these vicious creatures have In the After been rapidly devouring mankind since They appeared. With fierce Lunetta, Demitria survivor instincts, Amy manages to stay alive—and even rescues "Baby," a toddler who was left behind. After years of hiding, they are Pages: 455 miraculously rescued and taken to New Hope. On the surface, it appears F LUN to be a safe haven for survivors. But there are dark and twisted secrets lurking beneath that could have Amy and Baby paying with not only their freedom . . . but also their lives.

Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon the Dark Library and discover secret books of This Dark Endeavor alchemy and ancient remedies. Father forbids them from ever entering Oppel, Kenneth the room again, but when Konrad falls gravely ill, Victor is drawn back to the Dark Library where he uncovers an ancient formula for the Elixir of Pages: 320 Life. Victor, along with his beautiful cousin Elizabeth and friend Henry, immediately set out to find a man who was once known for his F OPP alchemical works to help them create the formula. Determined to save Konrad, the three friends scale the highest trees

in Strumwald, dive into the deepest lakes, and even make an unthinkable sacrifice in their quest for the elixir’s ingredients. And as if their task was not complicated enough, a new realm of danger—that of illicit love—threatens to end the ordeal in tragedy.

Until the letters of the newspaper article she was reading rearranged themselves into an article foretelling her best friend Jodi's death, Lizzy Mortimer had always thought of Crabapple as a relatiVely normal The Death Catchers coastal town. But the truth is anything but normal-Lizzy is the descendant of Morgan Le Fay, the legendary Lady of the Lake, and is Kogler, Jennifer Anne gifted with the ability to see and prevent unjust deaths. Now Lizzy is caught in the middle of centuries-old feud between Morgan le Fay and Pages: 352 her sister, Vivienne le Mort, who hopes to accelerate the end of the F KOG world by finding and killing King Arthur's last descendant, humanity's destined champion. So when an obituary for Lizzie's secret crush and the likely Arthurian heir, Drake Westfall, appears before her eyes, Lizzy must race to outwit fate and save her friends before mankind is destroyed forever.