The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307816419

From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life. Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northeastern Arizona. Nearby, in the town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. What could cause such shock and fear? The terror has begun, and there is no telling where it will end.

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Total Pages: 716
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780517064597

Contains: The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons; Searching for Caleb.

Three Complete Novels

Three Complete Novels
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Gramercy
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780517064931

A collection of the first three novels written by Willa Cather, one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Pat Booth

Pat Booth
Author: Pat Booth
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1994
Genre: Love stories, American
ISBN: 9780517100653

A steamy, exciting, spicy collection filled with mystery, sex, and glamorous characters. Orig. $54.85.

The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307816443

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…

Searching for Caleb

Searching for Caleb
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 337
Release: 1996-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0449911748

The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings us a novel that is “funny and lyric and true" (The New Yorker). Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks have maintained a determined steadiness. Adamantly middle class—Peck-proud, as the family slogan goes—they are quick to sweep under the rug those members who do not live up to their standards. Maybe that’s why Caleb Peck took off with his violincello as a boy? Sixty years later, his brother Daniel is still wondering. No longer willing to live without answers, he turns to his daughter-in-law, Justine, another Peck family eccentric. A studied tarot card reader, Justine comes across one message over and over in the cards: change is coming. With Daniel’s help, she’s hoping to find the courage to embrace whatever happens next. An unlikely pair struggling against a stifling family, Daniel and Justine believe they’ll find freedom in just the right mix of magic, music, and mystery.

The Terminal Man

The Terminal Man
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804171297

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .

Shattered

Shattered
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1986-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425099339

Getting there is supposed to be half the fun, but #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz shows readers just how bad a cross-country trip can get... The van was in back of them again. Closer this time. There could be no mistake—they were being followed. But why? The question kept nagging at Alex and Colin as they left Philadelphia behind and sped toward their new home in San Francisco. Courtney would be waiting for them, ready to begin a wonderful new life with her husband, her brother... Now, someone else is driving cross-country to see Courtney, too. Someone whose brain is rotting inside. Someone who knows their route, their stops, even their destination. And he won't rest until he finds them.

3 Complete Novels

3 Complete Novels
Author: Dean Ray Koontz
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Horror tales, American
ISBN: 9780399146268

Includes three novels by the horror writer that explore themes of death, memory, and psychic phenomena.