Bandon Public Library

In this 13th Reacher novel, the former military police major and notorious drifter Jack Reacher grows suspicious of a fellow subway passenger as their train approaches Grand Central Station in New York City. As a shady situation develops, Reacher debates between intervening to save surrounding lives or avoiding the predicament in order to save his own. He confronts a suicide bomber on the nearly deserted Manhattan subway car--a confrontation that...

Simple, rhyming text follows two boys and their father as they spend a rainy day riding the various lines of the New York City subway system

"In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath. The two were heading into a subway station with the bone carefully wrapped in the boy's arms when Hammer averted the hit. But there troubles are just beginning. Islamic terrorist and Israeli...

Summer, 1974. A heat wave blankets Boston, where Mary Pat Fennessy has lived her entire life in the housing projects of Southie, the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition. One night, Mary Pat's teenage daughter doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a train under mysterious circumstances. The events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter,...

"A lucid and moving debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. How do we take stock of a life--by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental,...

A collection of magazine articles, essays, and book introductions written by author Lawrence Block. A novelist turned compulsive traveler tracks a peculiar quarry all across America - places named Buffalo. "While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a sixty-year career. His instructional books for writers are leaders in the field, and his self-described...

The Warriors series meets Redwall in this first book in an epic animal adventure series set in the subway tunnels of Brooklyn. Hopper is just an ordinary pet shop mouse before he escapes. Soon he finds himself below the bustling streets of Brooklyn, deep within the untamed tangles of transit tunnels, and in Atlantia, a glorious utopian rat civilization. But all is not what it seems. Though Hopper is treated as a royal guest, he misses his siblings...

The primetime Emmy-winning workplace comedy that exists behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show has returned, with some of the original stars returning also. Catch up with all 15 Season 2 episodes, commentary with Tina Fey and more

New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé David are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Traumatized and unable to cope with the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, she is in the back of a convenience...

The more things change, the more things get interesting in this all-new hilarious season. Ted's search for 'the one' continues while Marshall and Lily hope to become parents, Barney makes an uproariously awkward attempt to find his real father, and Robin finally feels like a true New Yorker.