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The Killing Kind: A Thriller

by John Connolly

Published: 2003-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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John Connolly's Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" (Publishers Weekly) Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style. THE KILLING KIND When the discovery of a mass g...

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A Summer of Drowning

by John Burnside

Published: 2012-07-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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A terrifying and dream-like new novel from one of our greatest contemporary writers. At a critical point in her career, painter Angelika Rossdal suddenly moves to Kvaloya, a small island deep in the Arctic Circle, to dedicate herself to the solitary pursuit of her craft. With her, she bri...

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The Bone Season: A Novel

by Samantha Shannon

Published: 2013-08-20

Hardcover: 480 pages

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A TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK! It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for informa...

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Flowertown

by S.G. Redling

Published: 2012-06-19

Paperback: 378 pages

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When Feno Chemical spilled an experimental pesticide in rural Iowa, scores of people died. Those who survived contamination were herded into a US Army medically maintained quarantine and cut off from the world. Dosed with powerful drugs to combat the poison, their bodies give off a sickly ...

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Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives

by Edvard Radzinsky

Published: 1997-08-18

Paperback: 624 pages

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From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, a...

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My French Whore

by Gene Wilder

Published: 2008-02-05

Paperback: 192 pages

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World War I has almost come to an end, but for a young Minneapolis railway employee and amateur actor named Paul Peachy, whose marriage has become one-sided, it’s time to enlist.  Shipped off to France, Peachy realizes how out of his depth he is—and never more so than when he is captu...

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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New York Times BestsellerSimon Winchester’s classic about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—soon to be a major motion picture starring Sean Penn and Mel Gibson.The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions w...

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Manchester Bluff: A Civil War Novel

by J. D. Proffitt

Published: 2011-09-22

Paperback: 426 pages

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Jason Alexander is abruptly informed that he won’t be able to finish his studies at Illinois College because the school is closing down for the Civil War in the fall of 1862. The son of the largest cattle rancher in the Union is assigned to Edwin Stanton’s War Department. Jason’s adventures begin...

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Zodiac

by Neal Stephenson

Published: 2007-08-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the ...

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Diary of a Wimpy Vampire

by Tim Collins

Published: 2010

Paperback: 224 pages

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Like Edward Cullen in "Twilight", Nigel Mullet was transformed into a vampire when he was still a teenager, and will remain this age forever. Unfortunately, Nigel became a vampire at the awkward age of fifteen, and must spend eternity coping with acne, a breaking voice, and an ineptitude with girls...In...