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880 pages, 2012
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When English teacher Jake Epping is grading essays by his GED students, he reads a bizarre essay by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry survived his father’s bloody massacre of his family with only a sledgehammer injury to one arm. Jake is baffled—but a new mystery arises when Al, the owner of the local diner and Jake's best friend, asks him to take over the mission that has become Al’s obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Jake steps through a portal in the diner’s storeroom and finds himself in Jodie, Texas, in 1963. He begins a new life—but he must constantly deal with troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald. And it seems that any turn of events could lead to the death of U. S. President John F. Kennedy...

