{"title":"Apparently, My Husband Reads","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks recommended by Mr. C!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-dark-tower-i-the-gunslinger","title":"The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1501143514\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gunslinger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003eA #1 national bestseller, \n   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gunslinger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.\n    \u003cbr\u003e \n    \u003cbr\u003eInspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gunslinger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is “a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMilwaukee Sentinel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). It is “brilliant and fresh…and will leave you panting for more” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bent \u0026 Marked Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48818966167793,"sku":null,"price":13.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/1656\/8561\/files\/71f8BWJ8WwL._SL1500.jpg?v=1789947611"},{"product_id":"mistborn-the-final-empire-the-mistborn-saga-1","title":"Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga, 1)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1250868289\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNow with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003eOnce, a hero arose to save the world. 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A new uprising is forming, one built around the ultimate caper, the cunning of a brilliant criminal mastermind, and the determination of an unlikely heroine: a street urchin who must learn to master the power of a Mistborn.\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOther Tor books by Brandon Sanderson\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Cosmere\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003eThe Stormlight Archive\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e● The Way of Kings\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Words of Radiance\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Edgedancer (novella)\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Oathbringer\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Dawnshard (novella)\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Rhythm of War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    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Reckoners\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e● Steelheart\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Firefight\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Calamity\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Lux\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (with Steven Michael Bohls)\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cu\u003eSkyward\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e● Skyward\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Starsight\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Cytonic\n     \u003cbr\u003e● Skyward Flight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (with Janci Patterson)\n     \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e● Defiant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bent \u0026 Marked Books","offers":[{"title":"Default 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data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is “Stephen King at his best” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003eSeveral months have passed since \n   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Drawing of the Three\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Waste Lands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Roland’s two new \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003etet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But Roland altered \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eka\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—in Roland’s world—has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. There are new evils…new dangers to threaten Roland’s little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man.\n    \u003cbr\u003e \n    \u003cbr\u003eThe Dark Tower Series continues to show Stephen King as a master of his craft. What lands, what peoples has he visited that are so unreachable to us except in the pages of his incredible books? Now Roland’s strange odyssey continues. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Waste Lands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gunslinger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Drawing of the Three\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as the third volume in what may be the most extraordinary and imaginative cycle of tales in the English language.\u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bent \u0026 Marked Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48818976194801,"sku":null,"price":22.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/1656\/8561\/files\/81d7FvDG0oL._SL1500.jpg?v=1789948670"},{"product_id":"it-a-novel","title":"It: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1501182099\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eStephen King’s classic #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestseller and the basis for the massively successful films \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIt: Chapter One \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIt: Chapter Two\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIt: Welcome to Derry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—about an evil without a name: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003eWelcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.\n    \u003cbr\u003e \n    \u003cbr\u003e They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.\n    \u003cbr\u003e \n    \u003cbr\u003e Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including \n   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBag of Bones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHearts in Atlantis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e11\/22\/63\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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