It's 1949. War veteran Aloysius Archer is hired to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman. But when a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise...
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Author: Baldacci, DavidSummary: -
Author: Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.
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Author: Allende, IsabelSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee...
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Author: Calvino, ItaloSummary:
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo...
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Author: Ignatius, DavidSummary:
The race to build the first quantum computer heats up in the newest high-tech spy thriller from best-selling author David Ignatius. A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a...
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Author: Patterson, James, Roughan, HowardSummary:Attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride, but when his journalist girlfriend Claire's newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor's newly peaceful life is shattered. Chasing...
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Author: Laukkanen, OwenSummary:
Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of a diner on a rainy summer evening, and a few minutes later, he's lying dead in the mud. When BCA agent Kirk Stevens arrives on the scene, he...
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Author: Seay, MartinSummary:
A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of Cloud Atlas Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in...
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Author: Laukkanen, OwenSummary:
They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star. She...
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Author: Laukkanen, OwenSummary:
The new Stevens and Windermere novel from one of the most dazzlingly acclaimed new writers in crime fiction. The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown...
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Author: Trigiani, AdrianaSummary:Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class...
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Author: Gross, AndrewSummary:#1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war....
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Author: Auci, StefaniaSummary:
Driven by an insatiable desire to rise above his station and fueled by a nobility that scorns him, Vincenzo sacrifices family and love to transform his tiny spice shop into a trading empire. The...
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Author: Greenblatt, StephenSummary:
Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain...
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Author: Cook, Thomas H.Summary:
Cook's novel begins after the 9/11 attacks, when researcher Paul Crane sits down to interview elderly New York City resident Thomas Danforth. But Thomas' thoughts drift to a different era, when a...