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1) The road
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
2) Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Among the villains Alex Cross has faced--Gary Soneji, Casanova, Kyle Craig, The Wolf--one psychopath tops them all. Alex knows him as his wife's killer. Alex may have a chance to catch his wife's murderer after all these years. Is this a chance for justice at long last? Or the culminating scene in his own deadly obsession?
4) Forever odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to communicate with the dead to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come,...
5) The list
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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Description
After three of her novels flop for lack of publicity, lawyer Abby Chandlis hires male model Jack Jermaine to stand in as the author for her fourth. As expected, Jermaine's hunky looks cause sales to skyrocket. But Jermaine is more than just a model, he is a soldier of fortune and as people die round her, Abby wonders if she hasn't signed a pact with the devil.
6) 1408
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project. Defying the warnings of...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Archer and Jockers claim that the New York Times bestsellers in fiction are predictable: an algorithm exists that helps publishers know with 97% certainty if a manuscript is likely to hit number one on the list. The system analyzes themes, plot, character, pacing, even the frequency of words and punctuation, to predict which stories will resonate with readers. If our intellectual and emotional responses as humans and readers can be predicted, what...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
ix, 379 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the cultural importance of Margaret Mitchell's famous novel, discussing the writing process, reception by the publishing industry, numerous authorized and unauthorized tranlations, and the iconic film adapatation.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For writer Robert Harlan, life is a dream come true. His first novel has just hit the best-seller lists and he is suddenly thrust into the limelight. But as success consumes him, Robert's family life crumbles. It takes the sobering prophecy of a mysterious stranger for Robert to realize what is most important. Now he must find his way back to the wife and daughter he left behind.
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