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William Cowling, driven to desperation by insomnia, the scorn of his wife, and a feeling that he is losing control of his life, begins to build a fallout shelter in his backyard. As he works, he looks back over his life and tries to decide if he's crazy--as his wife and daughter insist--or the only sane person he knows.

Originally published in "The Miami Herald", this comic novel of suspense was penned serially by 13 writers associated with Florida. The authors, including Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, and Edna Buchanan, each added a chapter before passing along the manuscript to the next in line.

Despite his recent move up the promotion ladder, Lucas Davenport is still plagued by ugly crimes. This time (his 13th appearance), the bodies of a man and women, one black and one white, turn up hanging from a tree in the woods, both corpses stripped bare.

Despite his recent move up the promotion ladder, Lucas Davenport is still plagued by ugly crimes. This time (his 13th appearance), the bodies of a man and women, one black and one white, turn up hanging from a tree in the woods, both corpses stripped bare.

Two former nannies collaborate on a novel about being a nanny on New York City's Park Avenue, a job complete with overcompetitive parents, hapless children, ridiculous Halloween costumes, birthday parties from hell, and plenty of funny stories.

Two former nannies collaborate on a novel about being a nanny on New York City's Park Avenue, a job complete with overcompetitive parents, hapless children, ridiculous Halloween costumes, birthday parties from hell, and plenty of funny stories.

This 10th Harry Bosch novel links the retired LA cop with characters from previous non-Bosch novels. A serial killer and ex-FBI agent named Robert Backus, the title character from Michael Connelly's first novel, THE POET, was commonly thought to be dead. But now the Poet has resurfaced and has started killing again. At risk is FBI agent Rachel Walling, a former protégé of Backus who subsequently investigated his first killing spree. As she begins a new hunt for the Poet, her path crosses that of Harry Bosch, who believes that the natural-seeming death of a friend, Terry McCaleb (a character from Connelly's BLOOD WORK and A DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT), may actually have been one of the Poet's murders.

In Barthelme's melancholy novel, Peter Wexler becomes estranged from his wife and son, leaves home, and attempts to find out what, at 40, he really wants from life.

Carl Hiassan takes an outlandish ensemble cast, including an obsessive sexual harasser, a failed alligator wrestler, a soulless telemarketer, and the nature girl of the title, Honey Santana, and sends them on a pratfall-filled escapade into the heart of Florida's Everglades. Hiaasen juggles his characters with comic genius, and incorporates his usual theme of environmental conservation into their ribald antics.

Mr. Leland Gaunt arrives in Castle Rock and opens a shop where residents can find whatever their heart desires. But in the hands of this sinister shopkeeper, even the most innocuous request has dire consequences. "Needful Things" is the last of King's novels based in the fictional Maine town of Castle Rock.