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Agent Running in the Field: A Novel

John le Carré · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Audiobook

"LeCarre's novels are so brilliant because they're emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they're novels." - New York Times Book Review

A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carre.

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Bloody Genius

John Sandford · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Audiobook

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review) .

At the local state university,...

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson · Doubleday
Pages: 464
Format: Audiobook

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.

Bill...

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Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 368
Format: Audiobook

In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple . . . and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet.

"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough...

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The Guardians

John Grisham · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

In this instant #1 New York Times bestseller, John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller - with a twist.

"Terrific ... affecting ... Grisham has done it again." - Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

"A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful...
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Criss Cross

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Audiobook

A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged "investigation."
In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called...

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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Julie Andrews · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.
In Home, the number one New York Times...
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Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry

· Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying new thriller from "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark!

When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a "CRyan" describing her "terrible experience" while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including...
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Let It Snow: A Novel

Nancy Thayer · Ballantine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A Nantucket shopkeeper discovers that Christmas is the perfect occasion to make unexpected friendships . . . to warm the coldest of hearts - and maybe even find love.

Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating...
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Meant to be yours

Susan Mallery; Tanya Eby · Harlequin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Wedding coordinator Renee Grothen isn't meant for marriage. Those who can, do. Those who can't, plan. But she never could have planned on gorgeous, talented thriller writer Jasper Dembenski proposing, a fling, that is. Fun without a future. And the attraction between them is too strong...

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The Andromeda Evolution CD

Michael Crichton · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.

The Evolution is Coming.

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe...

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David Baldacci Fall 2019

David Baldacci · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

FBI Agent Atlee Pine returns to her Georgia hometown to reopen the investigation of her twin sister's abduction, only to encounter a serial killer beginning a reign of terror, in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
FBI Agent Atlee...
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Olive, Again: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers.

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic,...
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The Night Fire

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him---new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring...
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Noel Street

Richard Paul Evans · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The year is 1975. Elle Sheen—a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner—isn’t sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe,...

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Robert B. Parker's Angel Eyes

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core.

Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with dreams of making it big as a model/actress...
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The Second Sleep: A novel

Robert Harris · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before.

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor....
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Spy

Danielle Steel · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly...

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The Starless Sea: A Novel

Erin Morgenstern · Doubleday
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when...
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Stealth

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington must trap a ruthless defector in this heart-stopping thriller from fan favorite Stuart Woods.

Stone Barrington is trying to enjoy some downtime at his English retreat when he's unceremoniously sent off to the remote reaches of the UK and into a deadly snare. As it turns...
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Tidelands

Philippa Gregory · Atria Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the great storytellers of our time" (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that...
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Twisted Twenty-Six

Janet Evanovich · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Stephanie Plum's career has taken more wrong turns than a student driver on the Jersey Turnpike, and her love life is a hopeless tangle. In order to save someone dear to her, she'll have to straighten things out in Twisted Twenty-Six the latest, novel from #1 New York Times bestselling...
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