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Thriller/Adventure Thriller/Adventure 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. FIC GRI 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. FIC AVI 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. FIC COE 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. 10 more Books by Various Authors 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 F CLA 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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