silverfish
got perma'd
Yeah but that just goes to show she was looking for ideas for her story. Also when she vanished it was from a station where she was playing her violin. But later we see the case in her closet. From Reddit I saw that one of those books was published during the time of her disappearance so she could not have owned them before. They were also in an Amazon shipping box. A relatively new thing.
But she had to find Homer. It was very specific. It's not like she was on YouTube and searched for NDE's. She was looking specifically for Homer.
Is it possible that wherever she disappeared to she heard that story in passing? Yeah, I suppose.
Good point about the Violin and the books though.
But then there's the whole theory that:
[spoil]the books were planted[/spoil]