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Murder at Government House

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 5:30:33 PST

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Life in the colonial capital at Chania is relaxed and blooming, barring the odd hiccough in the regional railways, but Olivia Brandeis, a young anthropologist working in the region, senses that there is trouble brewing. When the Governor is found strangled at his desk, her suspicions are confirmed. Falicious rumors fly as Inspector Vachell tries to sort out conflictng accusations and find a real ...

Running Away to Home

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 5:08:46 PST

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“We can look at this in two ways,” Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. “We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They’re saying the economy is going to get worse before it gets better. Maybe this is the kick in the pants we needed to do something completely different. There will always be an excuse not to go…” And that, friends, is how a typically sane middle-aged moth ...

Virtual Light

Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:23:30 PST

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2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasse ...

Serpent's Reach

Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:23:30 PST

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The constellation of Hydri, also called the Serpent, became an undesirable destination during the era of humanity's most prolific interstellar colonization. For Hydri was under strict quarantine because it harbored an intelligent and dangerous alien race, the insectoid majat. Yet human colonies predating the quarantine did exist in this sector of space, which they called Serpent's Reach. Cut off ...

Triangle

Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:23:29 PST

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By the time she dies at age 106, Esther Gottesfeld, the last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, has told the story of that day many times. But her own role remains mysterious: How did she survive? Are the gaps in her story just common mistakes, or has she concealed a secret over the years? As her granddaughter seeks the real story in the present day, a zealous feminist historian bears down ...

Olive Kitteridge

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 2:44:16 PST

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Machine Man

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 2:38:46 PST

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When the victim of an industrial accident develops a fascination for biologically augmented prosthetics, he severs his other limbs to perfect his body and ...

Touch the Dark

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 2:30:30 PST

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Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with revenge in mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection.The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire- and the price he dem ...

Naked Heat

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:51:22 PST

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Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again in Richard Castle’s thrilling follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, Heat Wave. When New York’s most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. Heat’s murder investigation is complicated by her surprise ...

Heat Rises

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:43:55 PST

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The Xander Years, Volume 1

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:40:33 PST

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"This is new territory for me. My valentines are usually met with heartfelt restraining orders." Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you...dead. Having a Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy. But Buffy the Vampire Slayer's friend Xander Harris seems to find more than his share of trouble with the opposite sex. At first Xander is happy being the teacher's pet ...

Emotional Geology

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:40:33 PST

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Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories and desires she'd hoped were long dead. Rose must decide whether she has in fact chosen a new life or just a different kind of death. Life and love are offered by new friends, her lonely daughter, ...

Plague of Coins

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:40:31 PST

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Twenty-one coins have now been recovered—thanks in large part to the help from his latest son, the esteemed Georgetown University history professor, Alistair Barrow.Ever hopeful the complete coin collection will buy him a full pardon from ...

Skull Session

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:26:41 PST

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Paul hasn't seen his eccentric aunt in years. But her lavish house has been systematically smashed to pieces and she refuses to let anyone outside the family take on the repairs. Then the battered bodies of several missing teenagers turn up nearby.

Fortress in the Eye of Time

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 5:45:57 PST

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Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose - to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows, that most wondrous of spells, a "Shaping." A Shaping in the form of a young man who will be sent east on the road the old man was too old to travel. To right the wrongs of a long-forg ...

Icon

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:41:25 PST

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From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines. It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets. For the West, Russia ...

Heat wave

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:36:20 PST

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In "Heat Wave" Nikki Heat, una brillante, bellissima poliziotta della squadra omicidi di New York, si trova a indagare su una sconcertante serie di omicidi nel mondo della finanza. Ma la vera sfida, per lei, sarà dover sopportare la presunta collaborazione con il giornalista premio Pulitzer Jameson Rook. Nel frattempo, la città è messa a ferro e fuoco da un’anomala ondata di caldo, che rende le c ...

Salt

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:35:20 PST

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Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take salt for granted, a common, inexpensive substance that seasons food or clears ice from roads, a word used casually in expressions ("salt of the earth," take it with a grain of salt") without appreciating their deeper meaning. However, as Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates in his world- encomp ...

Hope: A Tragedy

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:34:55 PST

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Magic for Beginners

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:34:19 PST

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Magic for Beginners is Kelly Link’s eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to her beloved debut, Stranger Things Happen. “Cumulatively weirder and wiser” (The Believer), this new story collection riffs on zombies, marriage, witches, superheroes, haunted convenience stores, and weekly apocalyptic poker parties, among other things. Link’s work is truly unique. Time Out New York ca ...

Started Early, Took My Dog

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 2:08:54 PST

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Retired police detective Tracy Waterhouse and former detective Jackson Brodie find their lives spinning out of control after she takes custody of an ex-con's ...

Bad Monkeys

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:37:56 PST

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Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She says she's a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil. She says she's working with the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—aka "Bad Monkeys." Her confession lands her in the jail's psychiatric wing and earns her countless hours of poking, probing, and questioning by a professional. But is Jane crazy o ...

Fortune-teller Told Me

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:31:02 PST

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It was 1976 when Tiziano Terzani was warned by the fortune-teller in Hong Kong: "Beware! You run a grave risk of dying in 1993. You mustn't fly that year. Don't fly, not even once." Sixteen years later, Terzani had not forgotten. Despite living the life of a jet-hopping journalist, he decided that, after a lifetime of sensible decisions, he would confront the prophecy the Asian way, not by fighti ...

The Gilded Chain

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:24:19 PST

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As unwanted and rebellious boys, they find refuge in Ironhall....Years later they emerge as the finest swordsmen in the realm—A magical ritual of a sword through the heart binds each to his ward—if not the king himself, then to whomever else the monarch designates—with absolute loyalty.And the greatest Blade of them all was—and is—Sir Durendal. But a lifelong dream of protecting his beloved li ...

All Our Worldly Goods

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 2:29:11 PST

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Pierre Hardelot breaks off his engagement to a wealthy heiress to marry Agnes Florent, the daughter of the local brewer, setting off a family feud which lasts for thirty years, as their village is first destroyed by World War I and then ...

Native Tongue

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 2:25:09 PST

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"Ruthlessly wicked...Wonderful...His best book yet." ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in thei ...

Household Gods

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 2:23:19 PST

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Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her legal skills but weary of the daily grind, of childcare, and of sexist coworkers and her deadbeat ex-husband. Then after one exceptionally awful day, she awakens to find herself in a different life, that of a widowed tavernkeeper on the Roman frontier around A.D. 170.Delighted at first, she quickly begins to realize that her new w ...

Lullabye

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 2:53:08 PST

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Eight-year-old Bronwyn's mother has been in a coma for much of her daughter's young life, but soon she will rise to exact a horrifying revenge on those who have mistreated her through her many years of helplessness

Sphere

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 2:43:04 PST

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Within a space ship lying on the sea bottom is a mysterious sphere that promises each of the main characters some personal reward: military might, professional prestige, power, understanding. Trapped underwater with the sphere, the humans confront eerie and increasingly dangerous threats after communication with the alien object has been achieved.

The Wednesday Letters

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 2:26:52 PST

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Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. They've lived a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his last breath, he scribbles his last "Wednesday Letter." When their adult children arrive to arrange the funeral, they discover boxes and boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on ...

The Girl in the Glass

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 1:21:13 PST

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The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving ri ...

The Monster of Florence

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 1:08:56 PST

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In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") and Erik Larson ("The Devil in the White City"), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove ...

Upside Down

Wed, 30 May 2012 2:46:01 PST

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Former U.S. Marshal Winter Massey matches wits with a ruthless assassin with a dark and secret agenda to save the life life of twelve-year-old Faith Ann Porter, ...

Glass Soup

Wed, 30 May 2012 2:41:56 PST

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For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in Glass Soup, Carroll continues to astound . . . . The realm of the dead is built from the dreams--and nightmares--of the living. Octopuses drive buses. G ...

Codex

Wed, 30 May 2012 2:30:38 PST

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[해외주문원서] 고객님의 요청으로 수입 주문하는 도서이므로, 주문취소 및 반품이 불가합니다. (단, 재고부족인 경우는 가능) [인터파크 제공]

People of the Book

Tue, 29 May 2012 1:35:02 PST

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Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, has turned the intriguing but sparely detailed history of this precious volume into an emo ...

Dancing With Werewolves

Mon, 28 May 2012 8:05:41 PST

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It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast-forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small-town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high-octane Las Vegas - which is run by a werewolf mob - she finds herself holding back the gates of Hell itself. But at least she has a hot new guy and one big bad wolfhoun ...

Little, Big

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:52:34 PST

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Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. Its filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness.Crowleys work has a special alchemy - mixing th ...

Shadow Divers

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:34:38 PST

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The Thirteenth Tale

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:20:04 PST

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Unicorn Mountain

Fri, 18 May 2012 23:19:59 PST

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The Shattered World

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:48:18 PST

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The Restless Dead

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:26:47 PST

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Plagued by madness, violence, and terrifying visions, the reclusive Everol family has finally agreed to let university professor Jeff Gordon, who specializes in voodoo and the occult, into their world to help them, but Jeff is unprepared ...

Desperate Measures

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:20:41 PST

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The higher the stakes the harder it is to separate the killer from the cop. Soon to be a major motion picture from Mandalay Entertainment and Tri Star, starring Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, and Marcia Gay Harden.

Knight of the Black Rose

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:08:21 PST

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On the fabled world of Krynn, Lord Soth finally learns that there is a price to pay for his long history of evil deeds, a price even an undead warrior might find horrifying. Dark powers transport Soth to Barovia, and there the death knight must face the dread minions of Count Strahn Von Zarovich, the vampire lord of the nightmare land. But with only a captive Vistani woman and an untrustworthy ...

Library

Fri, 4 May 2012 23:42:42 PST

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On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British ...

Dark of the Eye

Fri, 4 May 2012 23:36:16 PST

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A tragic accident leaves 11-year-old Hope Stewart with an extraordinary power that is both a blessing and a curse. Her touch alone can heal those suffering from horrifying afflictions . . . or subject them to an unspeakable fate. Now this once-innocent child has become the prey in a monstrous hunt.

Die Trying

Fri, 4 May 2012 23:32:42 PST

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In this riveting thriller Reacher must foil a kidnapping from the inside out.

The Wizards of Odd

Fri, 4 May 2012 23:23:02 PST

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A collection of humorous fantasy stories by 24 authors, including Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Brian Aldiss, Rad Bradbury, Stephen Donaldson, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin and H.G. Wells.

Forever Today

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:53:19 PST

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The man who lost his memory: the story of an English musician crippled by total amnesia, and the wife who tried to find a cure, then ran away to start her life over, and finally came back to him. Clive Wearing is one of the most famous, extreme cases of amnesia ever known. In 1985, while at the height of his success as a conductor and BBC music producer, a virus completely destroyed the memory ...

Chosen Prey

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:51:34 PST

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A killer has some serious cleaning up to do to keep from getting caught--and Davenport's detection skills make him number one on his hit list.

The Girl Who Remembered Snow

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:46:01 PST

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Skeleton's Knee

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:45:21 PST

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The Wasp Factory

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:44:24 PST

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Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least:Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again ...

The Pride of Chanur

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:32:18 PST

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No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur. Little did he know when he thr ...

Pig Island

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:28:26 PST

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Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. A born sceptic, he believes everything has a rational explanation. But when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. Questions mount: Why has the community been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? And perhaps most imp ...

North

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:22:20 PST

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In the fading years of the nineteenth century, five men meet in one of Washington's most elegant townhouses. They are all powerful men - with one exception. For Washington's finest have gathered to plan an expedition to the North Pole, and Lieutenant William Parish has been chosen as its leader. As Lt Parish sets off into the unknown, he leaves behind him a young wife, Martha. Isolated and at fi ...

Murder in E Minor

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:13:32 PST

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Last Mountain

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:11:17 PST

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The Green Hills of Earth

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:08:13 PST

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THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH is a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over thirty years. First published in 1951, this collection includes "Delilah and the Space-Rigger," "Space-Jockey," "The Long Watch," "Gentlemen Be Seated," "The Black Pits of Luna," "It's Great to Be Back," "We Also Walk Dogs," "Ordeal in Space," "The Green ...

The Footprints of God

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:06:45 PST

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From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a cutting-edge new thriller rich with imagination and vision. In the heart of North Carolina's Research Triangle stands a corporate laboratory much like the others nearby. But behind its walls, America's top scientists work around the clock to attain the holy grail of the twenty-first century -- a supercomputer that surpasses the power ...

The Fisherman's Son

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:59:57 PST

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Drifting in a life raft off the northern California coast after a horrifying shipwreck, Neil Kruger retreats from his fear by recalling scenes from his childhood as the son of a commercial fisherman out of Half Moon Bay. With his emergency rations fast running out, he finds solace in his vivid memories: his powerful attachment to his father, a man who could predict the weather by looking at the s ...

Final Procedure

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:50:25 PST

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Christmas Eve in Auschwitz, 1944. Hitler's Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele, and his brilliant young protégé, Adalwolf, are on the verge of a nightmarish medical discovery when the war brings it all to an end. But Mengele's insane visions for the Third Reich live on.More than half-a-century later, FBI agent Melissa Gale's mission is to bring Adalwolf to justice before it's too late. He's emerged ...

End in Tears

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:48:33 PST

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A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery. Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely ...

City of Falling Angels

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:44:47 PST

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The author of the record-breaking bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil unveils the enigmatic Venice as only he can Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a househ ...

Mister Monday

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 3:33:03 PST

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Breathtaking new magical adventure series from the author of Sabriel. Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world - where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets. Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is supposed to die an early death. But then his life is saved by a key shaped like t ...

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 3:25:59 PST

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In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology, he is wracked with the guilt of losing his wife, poised forever at the "e ...

Body Work

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 3:22:36 PST

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The killer liked him women young and defenseless. He was never caught. As a child, Jane Gale witnessed her mother's murder and was nearly killed in trying to escape. Left for dead, she has suffered complete memory loss, unable to recall who she was before the accident or the events that caused her mother's death. Twenty-five years later, Jane has a new life and a blossoming career as a novelist ...

Hurry Down Sunshine

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 3:04:16 PST

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Excession

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 3:01:14 PST

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Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle.... Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of ...

Cane River

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 3:10:33 PST

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Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune(r) 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family's past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisiana's Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a ...

The Minds of Billy Milligan

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 8:04:55 PST

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Banvard's Folly

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 8:02:58 PST

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In Banvard's Folly, Paul Collins celebrates what he calls the "forgotten ephemera of genius." Here are thirteen unforgettable portraits of men and women who might have claimed their share of renown but who, whether from ill timing, skullduggery, monomania, the tinge of madness, or plain bad luck-or perhaps some combination of them all-leapt straight from life into thankless obscurity. Among their ...

Gilead

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 7:56:21 PST

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2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction 2004 National Book Critics Circle Winner In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He ...

Here Be Demons

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 6:58:05 PST

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