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And Then There Were None - The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection

Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None (Facsimile of the 1939 Collins first edition
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The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned...
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Flowers in the Attic

V.C. Andrews - Gallery Books; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Paperback

Now a major Lifetime movie event - the classic story of forbidden love that captured the world's imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. Book One of the Dollanganger family saga.At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent,...
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Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothicism and the prototype of the twentieth-century science-fiction novel. It was conceived in the Swiss Alps in mid-June 1816 after a conversation about bringing corpses to life provoked a nightmare, and was written over the ne
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The Godfather

Mario Puzo - Signet
Format: Paperback

When Mario Puzo's blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America's national culture,...
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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadMarriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable...
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The Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy - Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover

Also Availble as an Audio Edition from Audible via Amazon Tom Clancy's rich imagination and his remarkable grasp of the capabilities of advanced technology give this novel an amazing ring of authenticity. It is a thriller with a new twist, a "military procedural" with an ingenious,...
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I, Alex Cross

James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book

You can't runDetective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this...
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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind No. 1)

Tim LaHaye - Tyndale House Publishers; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

When the trumpet sounds, where will you be? Passengers in an airborne Boeing 747 find out in this riveting novel by renowned Christian speaker Tim LaHaye and master storyteller Jerry Jenkins. Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly...
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The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In this book, Susie is 14 years old and she has died and gone to Heaven. In the weeks following her death she watches life continuing without her: her friends discussing her disappearance, her family holding out that she will be found, her killing trying to cover his tracks. It is story...
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The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett - New American Library
Format: Paperback

Learn more about The Pillars of the Earth miniseries on Starz. The spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of the lives entwined in the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known - and a struggle...
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Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier - Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Format: Audiobook

Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Maurier's finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley - an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea, its owner Max de Winter and his new young wife...and of course Rebecca. Abridged.
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The Shack

William P Young - Windblown Media
Format: Print book

Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation. Evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious...
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

Stephen King - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent...
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Swan Song

Robert McCammon - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon's prescient and "shocking" (John Saul) vision of a post-apocalyptic US comes to life in his classic epic of terror and renewal.In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth's...
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This Present Darkness

Frank E. Peretti - Crossway; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a prayerful pastor begin to compare notes, they suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous New Age plot to subjugate the townspeople, and eventually the entire human race.
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Watchers

Dean R Koontz - Berkley Books

Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.
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