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THE WASHINGTON POST – “This is the way the world ends,” TS Eliot predicted, “not with a bang but a whimper”. Nope, said epic world-ender Justin Cronin. In 2010, Cronin published The Passage, one of the most frightening apocalyptic novels of the modern age. Now, Cronin is looming over us again with another apocalyptic novel, […]

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The Ferryman

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The following books are available at the Transylvania County Library. The book synopses are from Goodreads.

On the idyllic island utopia of Prospera, there is tennis and yachting, parties and interior decorating quandaries, everyone looks young and beautiful, and…

Bestselling novelist Justin Cronin talks to CNBC about the economy, climate catastrophe and the billionaire space race.

Bestselling novelist Justin Cronin talks to CNBC about the economy, climate catastrophe and the billionaire space race.

The author of The Ferryman has always wanted his readers "to throw the book across the room in a kind of pleasure." Here, he explains how to nail a killer twist.

In Justin Cronin’s novel “The Ferryman,” residents of enjoy respectable, cultured lives — until their memories are wiped.