Thunder Road Books

09/08/2026

Thunder Road Books presents an Evening with NYT Bestselling Author Harlan Coben in celebration of PLOT TWIST!
Monday, September 14th 6pm Spring Lake Theatre
Tickets: $43.00 (includes NJ sales tax) and your signed copy of PLOT TWIST!
Visit www.thunderroadbooks.com/events for ticketing information!
Books will be distributed at the event.
Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s leading storytellers. His thirty-eight suspense novels are published in forty‑six languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries. His Myron Bolitar series has earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards.
Coben is also the creator and executive producer of many television shows, including adaptations on Netflix of the global hits I Will Find You, Missing You, Fool Me Once, Run Away, Stay Close, The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good, Hold Tight, and The Woods as well as Shelter and Lazarus on Amazon Prime.

09/08/2026

09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day, readers!
We’re open today 10-2pm❤️
Thank you all for an incredible season! We love to see our summer families and visitors all season long!
Now, on to local summer 💕

09/05/2026

Happy Labor Day weekend, Spring Lake!
Please note: the store is open today from 10-4pm. At 4pm, we will briefly close to begin set up for our 5pm event with NYT Bestselling Author Rachel Harrison!
We’ve had an incredible season with all of you!

09/03/2026

Join Thunder Road Books as we welcome back author Jane Loeb Rubin in celebration of MAYHEM IN THE MOUNTAINS!

Thursday, September 10th 6pm Thunder Road Books

Tickets: $19.14 includes a signed copy of the book!

Visit our website for more details and ticket information!


1924 in the Catskills sizzled with chaos. The region’s turbulent history during that era could easily have erased any trace of the Borscht Belt’s grand hotels. Prohibition fueled bootleggers and whiskey stills—Dutch Schultz ran an underground distillery in nearby Ulster County. Meanwhile, the Ku Klux Klan stormed north after WWI, targeting new immigrants they viewed as threats to the American way of life. Amid the turmoil, the Isaacson family stood their ground, fiercely defending their land, livelihoods, and each other.

08/29/2026

Thunder Road Books presents an Evening with Indie Filmmaker and Actor Ed Burns!

Wednesday, October 7th 6pm Mountz School of Spring Lake

Tickets: $35.00 (includes NJ sales tax) and your signed copy of the book! Visit our website for tickets!

Synopsis:

A teenager’s idyllic summer of freedom is shaded by the growing weight of responsibility and a recognition of the fallibility of the adults around him.

Actor and director Ed Burns returns with the continuing fictionalized saga of growing up on Marlboro Road.

In this his second Marlboro Road novel, Edward Burns continues the tale, loosely based on his own childhood. The Guardian called Burns’s first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, “keenly felt…vivid…a tender-hearted complement to the Irish-American stories that Burns captures in his films.” The boy that was twelve in the first novel is now fourteen, about to turn fifteen, when he will enter an all-boys Catholic High School. He spends a lot more time with his best friends, Mark, T-Mac, Zeppo, Louie and Cakes than he does with his given family.

But for all their newfound freedom, the kids find the larger world of Valley Stream and the neighboring towns a more dangerous place than they’re prepared for, where dads can hurt you when they reveal their own emotional scars and the local beach might be ruled by gangs of older kids you might have to defend yourself from. In this larger world our narrator starts to see even his own family as not so perfect.

The Marlboro Road Gang is a novel where darker currents start to invade the innocent pastorale of childhood, and where a boy might lose his bearings in the confusion.

08/26/2026

Join Thunder Road Books as we welcome back NYT Bestselling Author Rachel Harrison in celebration of KISS SLAY REPLAY! She will be in conversation with author Courtney Preiss!

Saturday, September 5th 5pm Thunder Road Books

Tickets: $31.99 includes a signed copy of the book!

SYNOPSIS:

Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this wild and twisty new horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of So Thirsty and Play Nice.

It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air—and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends’ finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.

Or is she? She wakes up and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death—being an eternal wedding guest.

08/17/2026

Join Thunder Road Books as we welcome back Cristina Wolf in celebration of THE ONE WHERE THEY FALL IN LOVE!
Sunday, August 23rd 11am
Preorder: $20.25 includes NJ sales tax and a signed copy of the book.
You never know when love may come knocking . . .Hopeless romantic and romance editor Elle Thompson lives for happy endings—but real-life love? Not so much. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t thrilled when her best friend gets engaged. Really. Not jealous at all.Meanwhile, Oliver Cole likes things a certain way. Schedules and routines and order. So when his move back to New York is disrupted with the unwelcome addition of Thor—the dog his sister adopted for him—he’s less than enthused. Even less enthused than Oliver? Elle.When Elle can’t bear to hear Thor howling all night, the two agree to strike a deal: she’ll dog-sit while he’s on shift.But what starts as a reluctant arrangement soon turns into late-night chats, sizzling chemistry, and two lonely hearts daring to let each other in.