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A Small Town

Thomas Perry · Mysterious Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town -- burning down homes and businesses....
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The Museum of Desire: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many...
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Spitfire: A Livy Nash Mystery

M. L. Huie · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning new historical mystery for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series and Kate Quinn's The Alice Network.How far would you go for vengeance?It's V-E Day 1946 in London. World War II is long over, and former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink...
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The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be

Thomas Lynch · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking.For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's...
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Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones

Mendelsohn, Daniel · New York Review Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

This collection of essays exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made Daniel Mendelsohn "required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture" (The Daily Beast) . Here Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television,...
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Overthrow: The War with China and North Korea--Fall of an Empire

David Poyer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The United States and their Allied forces struggle to survive world war with China in this compelling, realistic thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series.World War III continues in David Poyer's Overthrow, the next novel in the acclaimed series featuring Admiral Dan Lenson as the Allies...
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Thief River Falls

Freeman, Brian · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover

Harrowing loss, psychological trauma, and a deadly mystery test the human will to survive in this electrifying novel from award-winning author Brian Freeman.Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural...
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Puddin' on the Blitz

Tamar Myers · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The success of Magdalena Yoder's new Amish-Asian restaurant is threatened by murder in the deliciously quirky new Pennsylvania-Dutch mystery. Although the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations - a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine - is not to everyone's...
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Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse

John Lithgow · Chronicle Prism
Pages: 110
Format: Hardcover

Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse is a satirical poetry collection from award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow. Chronicling the last few raucous years in American politics, Lithgow takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency.* Lampoons...
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Hateful Things: The Children of D'Hara, Episode 2

Terry Goodkind · Head of Zeus
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The Children of D'Hara picks up immediately after the conclusion of the Sword of Truth series. This is the story of Richard and Kahlan and their children 'The Sword of Truth series was my masterwork. Yet, life for these characters goes on after the conclusion of that series. For years...
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