Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Delaware

A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. And a corporate executive with nothing left to lose.

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women. Amid the rubble, a bystander captures a heart-stopping photograph--a teenage girl lying in the dirt, her body broken by a multi-story fall, and over her mouth a mask of fabric bearing the label of one of America's largest retailers, Presto Omnishops Corporation.

Eight thousand miles away at Presto's headquarters in Virginia, Cameron Alexander, the company's long-time general counsel, watches the media coverage in horror, wondering if the damage can be contained. When the photo goes viral, fanning the flames of a decades-old controversy about sweatshops, labor rights, and the ethics of globalization, he launches an investigation into the disaster that will reach further than he could ever imagine--and threaten everything he has left in the world.

A year later in Washington DC, Joshua Griswold, a disgraced former journalist from the Washington Post, receives an anonymous summons from a corporate whistleblower who offers him confidential information about Presto and the fi re. For Griswold, the challenge of exposing Presto's culpability is irresistible, as is the chance, however slight, at redemption. Deploying his old journalistic skills, he builds a historic case against Presto, setting the stage for a war in the courtroom and in the media that Griswold is determined to win--both to salvage his reputation and to provoke a revolution in Presto's boardroom that could transform the fashion industry across the globe.

Praise for Harvest of Thorns:

"This exposé of the underbelly of the international fashion industry is disturbing, moving, and thoroughly engrossing." --Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author of Violent Crimes

"A must-read book which uncovers what lies behind what we wear every single day. I promise that you will never be able to look at your clothes the same way again." - Livia Firth, OXFAM Global Ambassador, UN Leader of Change, and Founder of Eco Age LTD

"This is a poignant and engrossing description of the manner in which men and women from the poorest countries on the globe are pressed into working for slave wages to manufacture soft goods to be sold in the most affluent counties in North America and Europe. Corban Addison will hold you spellbound with his elegant prose from his first word to his last." - Wilbur Smith, worldwide bestselling author


 * Stand-alone novel
 * Includes discussion questions for book clubs and author's note
 * Also by Corban Addison: The Tears of Dark Water

A Harvest of Thorns

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South Carolina

Our House

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Arkansas

 Disturbing read about an over controlling father acting like he's protecting his family from nuclear war. "The Supplements" made me shiver 😖

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

The Compound

#hardcover #fiction #annpatchett #contemporary #patchett #bestseller #disturbing #jungle 

New York

A Novel

State of Wonder

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Unfortunately I havent had any luck removing the sticker from the front :((

J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world.
J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school's enigmatic founder as their father. J's peers are the only family he has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know-and all they are allowed to know.
But J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he's beginning to ask questions.
What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them?
Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J's, a girl named K is asking the same questions. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other.

Pennsylvania

Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. Neither knows the other exists--until now. The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and horror in this tantalizing thriller. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school's enigmatic founder as their father. J's peers are the only family he has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know--and all they are allowed to know. But J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he's beginning to ask questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them? Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J's, a girl named K is asking the same questions. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other. Advance praise for Inspection "A wonderfully mad bit of narrative knotwork, braiding together threads of The Handmaid's Tale and BioShock with aplomb. Malerman is a master at unsettling you--and keeping you off-balance until the last page is turned."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Blackbirds and Wanderers "Inspection proves that Josh Malerman is a master magician of narrative form. He's distilled the zeitgeist of our terrible times into this dazzling chameleon of a story, part Grimm's fairy tale of innocent youth, part dystopian gender politics, and authoritarianism run amok, with a satisfying Tarantino-esque ending."--Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger "A twisted fairy tale set in a truly unique world that should not be spoiled, Josh Malerman's Inspection reimagines the pillars of childhood in a smart, witty, and compulsively readable story of growth and rebellion. Read it and enjoy the discovery."--Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char "Engaging and suspenseful! Malerman creates a fiendish fairy tale of a world where boy was never meant to meet girl and the hell unleashed when they finally do."--J. D. Barker, internationally bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey and Dracul

Inspection

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Ruth, a young woman living in a rural Illinois town, looks back on the people who have shaped her life, including her runaway father, shrewish mother, and crazy husband

The Book of Ruth

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#hardcover #fiction #horrorfiction #horror #scifi #adult #disturbing #general 

California

stories from the corner

Rope Burns

#hardcover #fiction #horrorfiction #horror #scifi #disturbing #birdbox #thriller

North Carolina

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

From Catriona McPherson, the Agatha-Award winning author ofQuiet Neighbors, comes a clever, spine-tingling standalone Gothic thriller.

"Go to My Grave is both a classic 'country house mystery' and a thriller. Atmospheric, with mind-bending twists, a narrator who may or may not be reliable, and an ending that will take your breath away and leave you astonished." --Louise Penny

Donna Weaver has put everything she has into restoring The Breakers, an old bed and breakfast on a remote stretch of beach in Galloway. Now it sits waiting--freshly painted, richly furnished, filled with flowers--for the first guests to arrive.

But Donna's guests, a contentious group of estranged cousins, soon realize that they've been here before, years ago. Decades have passed, but that night still haunts them: a sixteenth birthday party that started with peach schnapps and ended with a girl walking into the sea.

Each of them had made a vow of silence: "lock it in a box, stitch my lips, and go to my grave."

But now someone has broken the pact. Amid the home-baked scones and lavish rooms, someone is playing games, locking boxes, stitching lips. And before the weekend is over, at least one of them will go to their grave.

Go to My Grave

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#paperback #fiction #thebookofruth #janehamilton #bookofruth #christian #disturbing #harrowing 

Kentucky

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Washington

Massachusetts

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Georgia

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Illinois

yellowed pages, school stamps and overall wear

and other tales

The Fall of the House of Usher

overall wear, yellowed pages, school stamps

21 short stories + 32 poems

Edgar Allan Poe Tales and Poems

Michigan

Title page has crimped seal (see photos), but otherwise in good shape. 

Missouri

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

Corban Addison

A Harvest of Thorns

Louise Candlish

Our House

Louise Candlish

Our House

S. A. Bodeen

The Compound

Ann Patchett

State of Wonder

Josh Malerman

Inspection

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

Josh Malerman

Inspection

F.X. Toole

Rope Burns

Josh Malerman

Inspection

Catriona McPherson

Go to My Grave

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

Louise Candlish

Our House

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

Josh Malerman

Inspection

Louise Candlish

Our House

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Tales and Poems

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

Josh Malerman

Inspection

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

Anonymous

Diary of an Oxygen Thief