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CLIVE BARKER · SUBTERRANEAN PRESS
Pages: 88
Format: Print book

From the beginning of his distinguished career, Clive Barker has been the great visionary artist of contemporary dark fantasy, a form that Barker himself has termed "the Fantastique." Through his many novels, stories, paintings and films, he had presented us with unforgettable...
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Treasured Grace

Tracie Peterson · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tracie Peterson Begins Compelling New Series Set on the 1840s FrontierGrace Martindale has known more than her share of hardship. After her parents died, raising her two younger sisters became her responsibility. A hasty marriage to a minister who is heading to the untamed West seemed like...
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In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II

Rhys Bowen · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked...
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In the Name of the Family: A Novel

Sarah Dunant · Random House
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

1502 and Renaissance Italy is in turmoil. Backed by the money and power of his aging father, Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia is soaring like a military comet, carving out a state for the Borgia dynasty. From Florence, a young diplomat, one Niccolò Machiavelli, is sent out to shadow...
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The Violated: A Novel

Bill Pronzini · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field--and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from...
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Forever a Hero

Linda Lael Miller · Harlequin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

For the youngest Carson brother, finding - and fixing - trouble seems to be all in a day's work Mace Carson doesn't consider himself a hero. Back in college, he came upon a woman in trouble and intervened - but he was just one irate Wyoming cowboy with his boots planted firmly on the side...
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Spymaster

Margaret Weis · Tor
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

Politics, court intrigue, and piracy combine in this gripping fantasy adventure. On a world already riven by the ancient hatred between the Rosian and Freyan empires, privateers of each nation have long preyed on the ships of the other. What few realize is that a sinister cabal controlled...
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Lisa See · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple.Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been...
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All By Myself Alone

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems...
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The Lost Order

Steve Berry · Minotaur Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth...
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Murder on the Serpentine: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In the history of Anne Perry's bestselling Victorian mystery series, the stakes have never been greater than now - as a mission for queen and country places the future of the British Empire squarely in Thomas Pitt's hands. It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive...
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Man Overboard

J.A. Jance · Touchstone Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In the latest Ali Reynolds mystery from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali takes to the high seas with her husband.Roger McGeary, a brilliant software engineer, has gifted himself with an upscale cruise in honor of his fortieth birthday. When he falls to his death from the balcony...
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Vicious Circle

C J Box · Putnam
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three...
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The Black Book

James; Ellis David Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime?Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life....
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Mississippi Blood: A Novel

Greg Iles · William Morrow
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

Greg Iles spent most of his youth in Natchez, Mississippi. His first novel, Spandau Phoenix, was the first of thirteen New York Times bestsellers, and his new trilogy continues the story of Penn Cage, protagonist of The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Devil's...
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All By Myself Alone

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems...
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The Lost Order

Steve Berry · Minotaur Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth...
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My Italian Bulldozer: A Novel

Alexander Mccall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel and romance in the Italian countryside.When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue cookbook, he expects...
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The Burial Hour

Jeffery Deaver · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

#1 internationally bestselling thriller writer Jeffery Deaver returns to the Lincoln Rhyme series, as Rhyme hunts a dangerous killer whose crimes span the Atlantic.A traveling businessman is snatched off of an Upper East Side street in broad daylight--or so it appears to the eight year...
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Bad influence

Lisa Scottoline · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride...
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Two from the Heart

James Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and Sam's Letters to Jennifer, two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities.Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home...
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Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels. And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT. Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before...
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The Fix

DAVID BALDACCI · GRAND CENTRAL PUB
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Following his #1 "New York Times" bestsellers "Memory Man "and "The Last Mile, "David Baldacci returns with his next thriller featuring detective Amos Decker.
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No Easy Prey

Iris Johansen · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When an enemy from her past threatens to return, Margaret Douglas must go on the run. But danger is in hot pursuit, and Margaret finds herself matching wits with a man who refuses to be stopped. Turning from the hunted to the hunter, Margaret must use everything she has to not only survive,...
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You Will Pay

LISA JACKSON · KENSINGTON PUB CORP
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more.It starts as a prank - a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors,...
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