Fiction

The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025 John Grisham

THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR 2025 were selected by John Grisham from three thousand entries. These twenty of the best of the best are accompanied by notes from the author.

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Sooley John Grisham

SOOLEY showcases John Grisham's storytelling genius in another of his trips away from the courtroom to the sports arena - and is gripping and suspenseful as any legal thriller. The reader is allowed to follow an immigrant escaping civil war back home to become a basketball legend. But will this be enough to save his...

Sycamore Row John Grisham

SYCAMORE ROW returns to the setting of A Time to Kill with a wealthy man who writes a second will - handwritten, and all potential heirs are in a fight to the end.

 

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The Racketeer - Limited Edition John Grisham

THE RACKETEER is a story where nothing is as it seems and an attorney in trouble knows who killed a judge and why.

 

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Forrest Gump - Limited Edition Winston Groom

FORREST GUMP is the farcial adventure of the best known bumbling  fictive Alabama character and the biggest grossing movie of all time. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for the last several decades. We will ship it free anywhere in the United...

Forrest Gump - Commemorative Edition Winston Groom

FORREST GUMP is the farcial adventure of the best known bumbling fictive Alabama character and the biggest grossing movie of all time.

 

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El Paso: A Novel* Winston Groom

EL PASO* is the remarkable story of American millionaires purchasing millions of square miles of Mexican land during the revolution and setting up their own fiefdoms. Pancho Villa did not like this arrangement and began to rape, pillage and murder.

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At the Water's Edge Sara Gruen

AT THE WATER'S EDGE is the story of a young woman in 1944 traveling to Scotland with her husband and his best friend. Left alone much of the time, she establishes friendships during these war days and witnesses an encounter with the Loch Ness monster. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic...

The Scribe Matthew Guinn

THE SCRIBE is a fact based historical novel set in Atlanta in 1881. The story follows a disgraced detective attempting to solve serial killings.

 

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Local Souls Alan Gurganus

LOCAL SOULS is written with wicked wit and luminosity of vision in these three novellas. The reader will find erotic hunger, social embarrassment and dark humor.

 

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