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Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel

Nevada Barr · Minotaur Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation -- an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter,...
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Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel

James Lee Burke · Pocket Books; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life.In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed...
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Pharaoh: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

Wilbur Smith · William Morrow
Pages: 408
Format: Print book

Worldwide #1 bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns to Ancient Egypt in a captivating new novel that will transport you to extraordinary times.EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK.Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded, All seems lost.Taita, advisor to the Pharaoh,...
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Night Watch

Iris Johansen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

"A high-stakes, high-powered thriller." -- BOOKLIST Sometimes, what you can't see will kill you ... Kendra is surprised when she is visited by Dr. Charles Waldridge, the researcher who gave her sight through a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch...
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Book Clubbed

Lorna Barrett · Berkley
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Not the Killing Type is back in Booktown with another page-turning mystery. Bookstore owner Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, must put their problems on the shelf to catch a killer who turns a bookcase into a murder weaponAfter cranky Chamber...
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The Long Way Home

Louise Penny · St Martins Pr
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There...
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Shockwave: An Aftershock Novel

Andrew H Vachss · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover

Dell, a former mercenary, and his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse, believe they have finally found a place of peace in a deceptively idyllic small town on the Oregon coast. But early one morning, just before daybreak, a body washes up on the town's pristine beach. The dead man's...
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A Love Like Blood: A Novel

Marcus Sedgwick · Pegasus
Format: Hardcover

The first novel for adults by hugely acclaimed YA writer Marcus Sedgwick: a gripping saga of love, revenge, and obsession -- and vampires. In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man in a dark tunnel, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered...
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Top Secret

W E B Griffin · Putnam
Pages: 515
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War - and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually...
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Unlucky 13

James Patterson · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 12
Format: Book

The Women's Murder Club is stalked by a killer with nothing to lose. San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends...
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In the Blood: A Novel

Lisa Unger · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Book of 2014, Amazon Best Book of the Month, Sun Sentinel Best Mystery Novels of 2014, Suspense Magazine Best Books of 2014 and Indie Next pick!Liar, liar, pants on fire . . . College senior Lana Granger has told so many lies about her past that...
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel

Keith Donohue · Picador Usa
Pages: 273
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy and reality.Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old Jack...
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To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Maisie Dobbs - "a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air) , faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II in this poignant entry (#14) in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling...
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Beyond the Truth: Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Seven

Anne Holt · Scribner
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

In the seventh installment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, the brilliant female detective must untangle the complex and bitter history of one of Oslo's wealthiest families after a celebratory get together at their home ends in a multi-victim homicide.Shortly before Christmas, four people...
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The Ultimatum

Karen Robards · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Enthralling ... Readers won't want this adrenaline-rich story to end. " - BOOKLIST (starred review) Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will - Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends....
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