Becky Baker
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Series
Oprah's book club volume 2000
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An Oprah's Book Club selection Samantha Morrow's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her 11-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tried to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second,...
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 3
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more...
5) Indelible
Author
Series
Grant County series volume 4
Language
English
Description
The fourth book in the Grant County series from Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her.
"[A] page-turner . . . Slaughter's plot has more twists than a Slinky factory and the characters' relationships are sharply drawn."—People, starred review
"Scary, shocking and perfectly suspenseful."—BookPage
Two armed men enter the police station
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
DEAD MAN RUNNING: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases--and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers a plot to kill a presidential candidate.
113 MINUTES: Molly Rourke's son has been murdered--and she knows who's responsible. Now she's taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mother's love.
13-MINUTE MURDER: He can kill anybody in just minutes--from the first approach to the clean escape. His skills have served...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
An intense, eerie, and instantly compelling collection of unabridged stories from Stephen King!
"The face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said. I don't want to think of him, but I can't help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clear of my chest."
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An intense, eerie, and instantly compelling collection of unabridged stories from Stephen King!
"The face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said. I don't want to think of him, but I can't help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clear of my chest."
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8) After Class
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A dysfunctionally-functional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days. This laugh-out-loud comedy is about how sometimes your crazy family really can come through, just when you need them the most. Starring Justin Long, Fran Drescher, Kate Berlant, Lynn Cohen, Michael Godere and Richard Sciff. Official Selection at **Tribeca Film Festival**.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
From Marlo Thomas, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Right Words at the Right Time, comes a one-of-a-kind collection of inspiring stories about ordinary women who have reinvented themselves in extraordinary ways. "You can be anything you want to be. " "Reach for the moon. " "It's never too late to make a change. " We've heard it all. But anyone who has ever tried to make a big life change knows that it can be a bit more complicated-and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was... wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A raging crowd of protesters are waiting for President George W. Bush's procession. As the President gives a patriotic speech inside a hotel, the demonstrators' fury increases to the breaking point. The tension mounts until the horrible instant where the President is assassinated. Following the assassination, the FBI hunts for the assassin. All the suspects are interviewed and released except one, the Syrian man who is convicted and put on death row....
12) 113 minutes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Molly Rourke takes the law into her own hands following the murder of her son.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it. As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their mother, Andrea Yates, drowned them in their suburban Houston home in June 2001. Over twenty-four months, O'Malley interviewed...
15) World War Z
Author
Pub. Date
℗2013.
Edition
The complete edition.
Language
English
Description
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the plague years.
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