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What do readers say about The Da Vinci Code?
robert ludlum style mystery and intrigue exciting and fast paced dry and nondescriptiveA mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.
An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Rober... Read more about The Da Vinci Code
A telephone was ringing in the darkness—a tinny, unfamiliar ring. He fumbled for the bedside lamp and turned it on. Squinting at his surroundings he saw a plush Renaissance bedroom with Louis XVI furn...
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What do readers say about The Knife of Never Letting Go?
I love the characters beautiful subtlety very realistic exciting and fast-pacedTodd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. In the midst of the cacophony, Todd knows that the town is hiding som... Read more about The Knife of Never Letting Go
We’re walking across the wild fields south-east of town, those ones that slope down to the river and head on towards the swamp. Ben’s sent me to pick him some swamp apples and he’s made me take Manche...
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What do readers say about Ship Breaker?
dark and dystopian strained and repetitive dystopian science fiction raw and rivetingThis thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change.
In America's flooded Gulf Coast... Read more about Ship Breaker
NAILER CLAMBERED THROUGH a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free. Ancient asbestos fibers and mouse grit puffed up around him as the wire tore loose. He scrambled deeper into the du...
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What do readers say about The Woman in the Window?
interesting and twisty crisp and snappy literary and cinematic more nuanced and deepLibraryReads Selection
#1 New York Times Bestseller - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Gary Oldman - Available on Netflix on May 14, 2021
"Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing."-GILLIAN FLYNN
It isn't paranoia if... Read more about The Woman in the Window
There isn’t a scrap of curtain, not a blade of blind, in number 212—the rust-red townhome that once housed the newlywed Motts, until recently, until they un-wed. I never met either Mott, but occasiona...
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What do readers say about My Sister, the Serial Killer?
punchy, funny, direct short and sharp murder and family loyalty frothy and amusingNOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE
Korede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third... Read more about My Sister, the Serial Killer
Have you heard this one before? Two girls walk into a room. The room is in a flat. The flat is on the third floor. In the room is the dead body of an adult male. How do they get the body to the ground...
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What do readers say about Devolution?
world war z paperback journal and interview engrossing and comic creepy and goreyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with "the Bigfoot thriller you didn't know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I've ever read" (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter... Read more about Devolution
BIGFOOT DESTROYS TOWN. That was the title of an article I received not long after the Mount Rainier eruption. I thought it was spam, the inevitable result of so much online research. At the time I was...
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What do readers say about The Iron King?
serious and suspensful the world building good and well-edited more real life folkloreMeghan Chase has a secret destiny-one she could never have imagined...Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school...or at home.When ... Read more about The Iron King
No, he didn’t leave. Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside. Leaving would imply he was unhappy with Mom and me, or that he found...
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What do readers say about The Great Escape?
plain and engrossing an exciting escape story wwii escape attempts informative, insightful and entertaining"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale." -Philadelphia Inquirer
They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, an... Read more about The Great Escape
It looked like a long war, and the Germans were building a new compound at Sagan. In the pine woods across the Kommandantur, gaunt Russian prisoners had felled some trees to clear a patch and workmen ...
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What do readers say about The Informationist?
fast-paced exciting thriller a page turner an impressive first book engrossing investigative thrillerGovernments pay her.
Criminals fear her.
Nobody sees her coming.
Vanessa "Michael" Munroe deals in information-expensive information-working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expert... Read more about The Informationist
She’d timed the motorcade from Balgat to the edges of Kizilay Square and stood now, motionless, watching from a shadowed notch while the target group exited the vehicles and progressed down a wide, sh...
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What do readers say about River of Teeth?
fun and light killer feral hippos swamp cowboys riding hippos exciting and fast-pacedA Finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella
Sarah Gailey's wildfire debut River of Teeth is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls "preposterously fun."
In the early 20th Century, the United States governmen... Read more about River of Teeth
There was nothing within him that cried out for justice or fame. He did not wear a white hat—he preferred his grey one, which didn’t show the bloodstains. He could have been a hero, had he been proper...
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