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Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

by Stephen King

The #1 bestseller that raises the price of greed... A new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock. It has just what you want. But you won't discover just how high the price is until it's too late.

The Regulators

by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

On a perfect summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, many of the citizens who live on Poplar Street are killed mysteriously, and at the center of the mystery is a young boy named Seth Garon, whose supernatural powers are just awakening. 1,250,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

The Solace of Leaving Early

by Haven Kimmel

A heart-rending story of the lives of a few inhabitants of a small American town and the massive effect of one very violent death Langston Braverman has just walked out on her PhD oral exams and returned home to Haddington, Indiana in a fragile emotional state. She retreats to her parents' attic, unsure what to do with the summer or the rest of her life, but with vague plans to write the great American novel. But... (more)

The Mitford Years: Book 4

Out to Canaan

by Jan Karon

Thousands of readers have come home to Mitford, the little town with the big heart, whose endearing and eccentric residents have become like family members. But now change is coming to the hamlet. Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his wife Cynthia are pondering retirement; a brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development; a suspicious realtor with plans for a health spa is eyeing the beloved... (more)

The Mitford Years: Book 2

A Light in the Window

by Jan Karon

MISS BUNCLE'S BOOK

by D.E. Stevenson

The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it in order to try and supplement her meagre income. This is a light-hearted, easy read, one of those books like Mariana, Miss Pettigrew, The Making of a Marchioness and Greenery Street which can be recommended unreservedly to anyone looking for... (more)

Father Tim: Book 1

Home to Holly Springs

by Jan Karon

Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels have been captivated by Jan Karon’s “gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives—along with a vividly imagined world” ( People ). They learned quickly that “after you’ve spent time in Mitford, you’ll want to come back” ( Chicago Tribune ). Millions eagerly awaited the publication of each novel, relishing the story of the bookish and bighearted... (more)

Pretty is as Pretty Dies: A Myrtle Clover Mystery

Pretty is as Pretty Dies: A Myrtle Clover Mystery

by Elizabeth Spann Craig

Bingo, bridge-and a dead body in the church sanctuary? Life in this small Southern town just got ugly . . . and exciting! No one in Bradley, North Carolina, is exactly crying into their sweet tea over the murder of Parke Stockard. Certainly not retired schoolteacher Myrtle Clover. Upon discovering the corpse, Myrtle is struck-not with grief, but a brilliant idea! Solving the crime would prove to everyone... (more)

Falling from the Moon

by Lise Marinelli

Charming Adeline Harris thinks she has it all figured out. That is, until she unthinkingly betrays Jack, her friend and childhood sweetheart. When he refuses to forgive her, she turns to his handsome and mysterious cousin, whose secrets turn out to be more than Addie has bargained for. As Hitler's war spreads across Europe and the last of the Great Depression lingers, Falling from the Moon , a vintage love... (more)

Hearts In Atlantis

by Stephen King

'Although it is difficult to believe, the 60s are not fictional; they actually happened' (from the Author's Note). "Hearts in Atlantis" comprises of five brilliant, interconnected, sequential narratives, each deeply rooted in the 60s and haunted by the Vietnam War: In "Low Men in Yellow Coats", 11-year-old Bobby discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a... (more)

Dandelion Wine: Book 1

Dandelion Wine

by Ray Bradbury

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)

by Haven Kimmel

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their... (more)

The Little Friend

by Donna Tartt, Donna Tartt, Donna Tartt, Donna Tartt

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History —a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times— The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant. In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a baby—was found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard.... (more)

It

by Stephen King

They were just kids when they stumbled upon the hidden horror of their hometown. Now, as adults, none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without end, and the evil without a name.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic.A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying,... (more)

The Mitford Years: Book 9

Light from Heaven

by Jan Karon

It’s never too late. Father Tim Kavanagh has been asked to "come up higher" more than once. But he’s never been asked to do the impossible—until now. The retired Episcopal priest takes on the revival of a mountain church that’s been closed for forty years. Meanwhile, in Mitford, he’s sent on a hunt for hidden treasure, and two beloved friends are called to come up higher. As Father Tim finds, there ... (more)

The Mitford Years: Book 3

These High Green Hills

by Jan Karon

The Mitford Years: Book 7

In This Mountain

by Jan Karon

Restless with his retirement, Father Tim, accompanied by Cynthia, gears up for a year-long ministry across the state line, but a series of events sends shock waves throughout the town of Mitford and through Father Tim's faith.

The Mitford Years: Book 6

A Common Life

The Wedding Story

by Jan Karon

Mitford's Lord's Chapel seats barely two hundred souls, yet millions of Jan Karon's fans will be there for the most joyous event in years: the wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh and Cynthia Coppersmith. Here at last is A Common Life , the sixth book in the bestselling Mitford Years series, and the long-awaited answers to these deeply probing questions: Will Father Tim fall apart when he takes his vows? Will... (more)

The Mitford Years: Book 8

Shepherds Abiding

by Jan Karon

Millions of Americans have found Mitford to be a favorite home-away-from-home, and countless readers have long wondered what Christmas in Mitford would be like. The eighth Mitford novel provides a glimpse, offering a meditation on the best of all presents: the gift of one’s heart. Since he was a boy, Father Tim has lived what he calls "the life of the mind" and has never really learned to savor... (more)

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by Stephen King

by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

by Haven Kimmel

by Jan Karon

by Jan Karon

by D.E. Stevenson

by Jan Karon

by Elizabeth Spann Craig

by Lise Marinelli

by Stephen King

by Ray Bradbury

by Haven Kimmel

by Donna Tartt, Donna Tartt, Donna Tartt, Donna Tartt

by Stephen King

by Ray Bradbury

by Jan Karon

by Jan Karon

by Jan Karon

The Wedding Story

by Jan Karon

by Jan Karon