Terry’s Lending Library

This is for friends of Terry. If you would like to borrow a book from this list, text or email me and I will set it aside until the next time I see you in person.

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🌟 New Arrivals

New additions to the shelf this week:

Native Son | Tularosa | The Judas Judge | The Bear and the Dragon | Icon

📚 Classics & Contemporary

Native Son Author: Richard Wright

Set in the 1930s in Chicago’s South Side, this powerful and controversial classic follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man trapped in a downward spiral of poverty and racism. After a tragic accident leads to a desperate crime, the novel explores the systemic forces that shape Bigger’s life. View on Goodreads

⚔️ Historical & Adventure

Pirate Latitudes Author: Michael Crichton

Jamaica, 1667. Privateer Captain Charles Hunter is hired by the island’s governor to infiltrate a Spanish fortress and steal a legendary galleon rumored to be filled with gold. It’s a gritty, fast-paced maritime heist involving bloodthirsty pirates and jungle treks. View on Goodreads

🔍 Mystery & Thriller

Avenger Author: Frederick Forsyth

Calvin Dexter moonlights as the “Avenger,” a tracker who delivers fugitives to justice when the law fails. His latest mission puts him on a collision course with the CIA. View on Goodreads

The Bear and the Dragon Author: Tom Clancy

President Jack Ryan faces his most complex challenge as a newly democratic Russia is threatened by an expansionist China, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. View on Goodreads

The Boys from Biloxi Author: John Grisham

Two childhood friends on the Mississippi Gulf Coast grow up to find themselves on opposite sides of the law—one a prosecutor, the other part of the “Dixie Mafia.” View on Goodreads

The Brethren Author: John Grisham

Three former judges running a mail-scam from federal prison accidentally hook a powerful politician with dangerous secrets. View on Goodreads

Finders Keepers Author: Stephen King

A high-stakes cat-and-mouse game centered on the dangerous obsession of a reader and a set of stolen, unpublished notebooks. Note: Terry really enjoyed this! Fun read. (Hardback) View on Goodreads

The Husband Author: Dean Koontz

An ordinary gardener has sixty hours to deliver two million dollars to save his kidnapped wife, forcing him to discover what he is truly capable of. View on Goodreads

Icon Author: Frederick Forsyth

A retired CIA operative is sent into the heart of Moscow to orchestrate a coup against a charismatic leader with a secret genocidal agenda. View on Goodreads

The Judas Judge Author: Michael McGarrity

Police Chief Kevin Kerney investigates the murder of a retired judge, untangling a web of long-buried secrets and betrayal in New Mexico. View on Goodreads

The Kill List Author: Frederick Forsyth

“The Tracker” is hired to hunt down “The Preacher,” a radical extremist using the internet to inspire global assassinations. View on Goodreads

The Street Lawyer Author: John Grisham

A high-powered lawyer leaves his firm to work for the poor, uncovering a conspiracy that his former partners will do anything to keep hidden. View on Goodreads

Tularosa Author: Michael McGarrity

Ex-cop Kevin Kerney searches for a missing soldier in the rugged Tularosa Basin, uncovering border smuggling and old family secrets. View on Goodreads

🔬 Speculative & Techno-Thriller

Deeply Odd Author: Dean Koontz

Psychic fry cook Odd Thomas must hunt a truck-driving madman to stop a ritualistic murder he saw in a terrifying vision. View on Goodreads

Innocence Author: Dean Koontz

A young man who must live in the shadows due to his “terrible” face forms a bond with another outcast to survive a world that fears them. View on Goodreads

Micro Author: Michael Crichton & Richard Preston

Graduate students are miniaturized and abandoned in a Hawaiian rainforest where common insects become titans. View on Goodreads

Next Author: Michael Crichton

A fast-paced look at a world where genetic research has outpaced the law and your own DNA can be patented or stolen. View on Goodreads

Three Complete Novels: Strangers / The Voice of the Night / The Mask Author: Dean Koontz

A massive three-in-one volume featuring haunting stories of forgotten memories, deadly friendships, and mysterious pasts. View on Goodreads