Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.
Amanda Payne says:
"Gripping!"
Stephen King dives into hard-boiled fiction with his latest novel, Joyland. Part horror story, part crime thriller, part coming-of-age journey, Joyland follows college student Devin to his new job working at a carnival in North Carolina, where he will have to confront the legacy of a vicious murder that took place there years before.
How do you make sure a crime that hasn’t happened yet, never does? That’s the critical question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it’s the living who desperately need Odd on their side. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. Who the potential victims are and where they can be found remain a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: the homicidal stranger who tried to shoot him dead in a small-town parking lot.
G. House Sr. says:
"Oddly Excellent!"
Master of suspense Dean Koontz is back with the latest novel in his popular Odd Thomas series. In this supernatural thriller, Odd must assist the living by trying to prevent the murder of three innocents at the hands of a man with powers and abilities superior to his own...
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie - magical, comforting, wise beyond her years - promised to protect him, no matter what.
FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world’s most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years the only name she’s cared about is Nicolas Fox - an international crook she wants in more ways than one.
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.
Narrated By Khaled Hosseini, Navid Negahban, Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Khaled Hosseini, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.
Andrew Yancy - late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office - has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first - this being Hiaasen country - Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters.
How do you make sure a crime that hasn’t happened yet, never does? That’s the critical question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it’s the living who desperately need Odd on their side. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. Who the potential victims are and where they can be found remain a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: the homicidal stranger who tried to shoot him dead in a small-town parking lot.
Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when--or if--it will go away.
Narrated By Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, and others
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Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849: Eli McCullough is 13 years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and waging war against their enemies, including white men - which complicates his sense of loyalty and understanding of who he is.
Melinda says:
"Five Stars for the Lone Star, The Son, & Meyer"
Narrated By Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, and others
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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls, to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
Jacqueline says:
"Finish to Start Excellent is Novel This"
Grace Stanton’s life as a rising media star and beloved lifestyle blogger takes a surprising turn when she catches her husband cheating and torpedoes his pricey sports car straight into the family swimming pool. Grace suddenly finds herself locked out of her palatial home, checking account, and even the blog she has worked so hard to develop in her signature style. Moving in with her widowed mother, who owns and lives above a rundown beach bar called The Sandbox, is less than ideal. So is attending court-mandated weekly "divorce recovery" therapy sessions with three other women and one man for whom betrayal seems to be the only commonality. When their “divorce coach” starts to act suspiciously, they decide to start having their own Wednesday "Ladies' Night" sessions at The Sandbox, and the unanticipated bonds that develop lead the members of the group to try and find closure in ways they never imagined. Can Grace figure out a new way home and discover how strong she needs to be to get there?
Two short stories by H.G. Wells displaying his gift for creating thought-provoking themes. "The Diamond Maker" is a story about a chance encounter between two men who then must decide whether they can trust each other. "The Door in the Wall" is a fascinating tale about a successful politician who struggles to merge the beauty of his imagined world with the rationality of real life.
Luis acaba de salir de un centro de menores. Cometió un acto monstruoso del que no se arrepiente. Mientras se reencuentra con viejos amigos y conocidos, y planea quién será su siguiente víctima, puede que conozca lo que hay al otro lado del camino que termina para todos, antes o temprano. Lejos de ser un audiolibro convencional este sonolibro está dramatizado con distintas voces para cada personaje, música y efectos sonoros, proporcionando al oyente una increíble experiencia inmersiva.
En gång i tiden levde Megan ett helt annat liv. Nu är hon tvåbarnsmamma, skötsam förortsbo och mer och mer missbelåten med tillvaron. Ray hade en lovande karriär som dokumentärfotograf, men nyss fyllda fyrtio och utan framtidsutsikter förnedrar han sig numera som fejkpaparazzo, inkallad när rika barn vill imponera på sina vänner eller kändisfixerade män på kvinnorna de dejtar.Broome är kriminalinspektör och har ständigt ett ouppklarat fall i tankarna - en man som spårlöst försvann för sjutton år sedan.
Tommy Wilkins, a.k.a. "Tammy Walks" was happy with his life as one of the highest paid drag queen performers in New York City. He had a gorgeous apartment in Greenwich Village, men throwing themselves at his feet and he had lots of money in the bank. He didn't need the family that shunned him, the boyfriend that used to beat the hell out of him or even the gorgeous sexy linebacker looking Texan cowboy, named Anton "Ton" Forrester.
It is the Roaring Twenties and Monica Woodard bobs her hair and raises the hem of her dresses, but she doesn't feel liberated. The last lavish party of the season at aloof tycoon Jared Fitzgerald's "Mansion on the Rock," an event not to be missed, is that night. Reluctantl,y Monica agrees to go along with friends to crash it.
Kommissarie Sten Wall befinner sig i Stockholm samtidigt som en uteliggare brutalt berövas livet. När Wall återvänder hem har han naturligtvis inte en aning om att mordet i huvudstaden kommer att få konsekvenser också i Staden. Brottsspiralen skruvas upp, och polisen ställer sig frågan om organiserade tiggarligor kan ligga bakom det hela. I historien figurerar en viss Jörgen Allarsson, som några år tidigare dödat en man i ett blodigt drama.
Traveling the Oregon Trail with Our Family Bible is the story of one young woman and her family heading out West using the Oregon Trail, and along for the ride is an ex-army soldier with a troubled past. All are tested by chances at life and death and tragedy and also joy and in the end it's faith and the love of life that pulls them through all of the adversity, until they reach their final destination. This audiobook contains powerful Christian influences, love, family, and other related themes meant to make you smile!
The Hellbound Heart: Abridged Edition Read by the Author
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Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back-though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay....
Mike Delo, a former military investigator, then, an unorthodox homicide detective with the Omaha Police Department, until he is forced to resign and go private, Delo struggles with alcohol abuse and criticism about his relationship with his family, as he attempts to solve a string of brutal murders. During the investigation, he becomes embroiled in covert FBI operations and conflict between competing crime organizations. He moves quickly and adroitly, and finds clues overlooked by police.
Crank Wilson left his South Boston home at sixteen to start a punk band and burn out his rage at the world. Julia Thompson left a secret behind in Beijing that exploded into scandal in Washington, DC, threatening her father's career and dominating her family's life. When Julia and Crank meet at an anti-war protest in Washington in the fall of 2002, the connection between them is so powerful it threatens to tear everything apart.
Per Petterson tager os i I kølvandet med på en rejse til nattens ende. Romanens jeg-fortæller, forfatteren Arvid Jansen, befinder sig i et eksistentielt tomrum - i kølvandet på en katastrofe, som trækker dybe spor i hans liv. En rå og øm, sårbar og barsk historie om at miste fodfæstet i tilværelsen, men mesterligt fortalt i et glasklart rytmisk sprog og med en varm sort humor.