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The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer...

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Milo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of Secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a “tourist” for the CIA, an undercover agent with no home, no identity. Now he’s working a desk at the agency’s New York headquarters. But when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into a colleague, exposing new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s been behind it all from the very beginning.

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The Horses of St Mark's: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris and Venice by Charles Freeman...

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This title is about how a particular set of artistic treasures from the classical world, the horses of St Mark's Basilica, interacted with 2000 years of European history.

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The Silent Patient - by Alex Michaelides..

 

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The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect.

A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas.

One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.

The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia.

His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations, a search for the truth that threatens to consume him...

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The Game by Tom Wood..

 

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OPENING MOVE.

After executing a hit on a fellow assassin in Algiers, Victor; the world's deadliest hit man is contracted by the CIA for an assignment that will take him across Europe to the blood-stained streets of Rome and straight into hell.

COUNTER MOVE.

Victor must pose as his previous and very much dead, target to figure out who the killer’s next victim was going to be.

But what was supposed to be a quick operation soon becomes much more complicated and treacherous.

FINAL MOVE.

Forced to work with a group of ruthless mercenaries, Victor will face a choice he would rather not make, do the right thing, or sacrifice the only thing in the world he truly cares about his own life.

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The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke.. . . .

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Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program, a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected, is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous murder in the very first episode. Now Laurie has the ideal case to feature in the next episode of Under Suspicion: the Cinderella Murder.

When Susan Dempsey, a beautiful and multi-talented UCLA student, was found dead, her murder raised numerous questions.

Why was her car parked miles from her body? Had she ever shown up for the acting audition she was due to attend at the home of an up-and-coming director? Why does Susan’s boyfriend want to avoid questions about their relationship? Was her disappearance connected to a controversial church that was active on campus? Was she close to her computer science professor because of her technological brilliance, or something more? And why was Susan missing one of her shoes when her body was discovered?

With the help of lawyer and Under Suspicion host Alex Buckley, Laurie knows the case will attract great ratings, especially when the former suspects include Hollywood’s elite and tech billionaires.

The suspense and drama are perfect for the silver screen but is Cinderella’s murderer ready for a close-up?

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The Black Wolves of Boston by Wen Spencer ...

 

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The Black Wolves of Boston by Wen Spencer offers an exciting and humorous tale for adults of a young werewolf and his unwilling acceptance of his heritage.

When ten classmates are torn to piece, only the unconscious Joshua survives, but powerful enemies want him for a blood sacrifice.

Spenser's werewolves are not the traditional ones of legends.

They are not ruled by the moon and, while strong, are not invincible.

They protect the world against monsters from a realm of chaos that would destroy the world of humans.

In particular, the wolves fight a group of Wickers, witches who use blood magic and are dedicated to destroying the werewolves.

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The Stonehenge Legacy by Sam Christer ..

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Conspiracy thrillers have tackled Da Vinci, Atlantis and the Pyramids, but never Stonehenge. Until now.

With a concept to rival the very biggest books in the genre, this novel will dazzle anyone interested in one of the world's most fascinating mysteries.

Eight days before the summer solstice, a man is butchered in a blood-freezing sacrifice on the ancient site of Stonehenge before a congregation of robed worshippers. Within hours, one of the world's foremost treasure hunters has shot himself in his country mansion.

And to his estranged son, young archaeologist Gideon Chase, he leaves a cryptic letter . . .

Teaming up with an intrepid Wiltshire policewoman, Gideon soon exposes a secret society, an ancient international legion devoted for thousands of years to Stonehenge.

With a charismatic and ruthless new leader at the helm, the cult is now performing ritual human sacrifices in a terrifying bid to unlock the secret of the stones.

Packed with codes, symbology, relentless suspense, and fascinating detail about the history of one of the world's most mysterious places, The Stonehenge Legacy is a blockbuster thriller to rival the very best of Dan Brown.

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Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore..

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In addition to his work as a mega-bestselling author, Michael Moore is an award-winning director.

He lives in Michigan.

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Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken..

 

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Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right.

He has listened to their cries of slander, bias, and even treason.

He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world.

He's even watched Fox News. A lot.

And, in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying liars.

Al destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight. Using the Right's own words against them, he takes on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues, in the most talked about book of the year.

 

Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, Liessticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding.

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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . . . .

 

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With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960's.

We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.

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The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus Crime Thriller) by Ian Rankin.

 

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A murder has been committed, but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime.

That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose ...

When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly warned off the case, not least because the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland, and Rebus's bosses want him well out of the way.

But Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules, and when Siobhan has a very personal reason for hunting down a riot cop, it looks as though both Rebus and Clarke may be up against their own side .

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Nothing Was the Same - by Kay Redfield Jamison...

 

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From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison, who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion, could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer.

In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.

And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.

But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together.

Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.

A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.

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Chasing the Monk's Shadow by Mishi Saran

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In the seventh century AD, the Chinese monk Xuanzang (earlier spelt as Hiuen Tsang or Hsuan Tsang) set off on an epic journey to India to study Buddhist philosophy from the Indian masters.

Travelling along the Silk Road, through the desolate wastes of the Gobi desert and the icy passes of Central Asia, braving brigands and blizzards, Xuanzang finally reached India, where his spiritual quest took him to Buddhist holy places and monasteries throughout the subcontinent.

By the time he returned to China eighteen years later, carrying with him nearly 600 scriptures which he translated from Sanskrit into Chinese, Xuanzang had covered an astonishing 10,000 miles.

He also left a detailed record of his journey, which remains a valuable source of historical information on the regions he traversed.

Fourteen hundred years later, Mishi Saran follows in Xuanzang’s footsteps to the fabled oasis cities of China and Central Asia, and the Buddhist sites and now-vanished kingdoms in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan that Xuanzang wrote about.

Travelling seamlessly back and forth in time between the seventh century and the twenty-first, Saran uncovers the past with consummate skill even as she brings alive the present through her vivid and engaging descriptions of people and places.

Her gripping chronicle includes an extraordinary eyewitness account of Kabul under the Taliban regime, just one month before 9/11.

Running parallel to the account of her travels is the moving story of the author’s inner journey towards a new understanding of her roots and her identity.

With its riveting mix of lively reportage, high adventure, historical inquiry and personal memoir, this delightfully written book is a path-breaking travelogue.

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Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly....

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The follow-up to 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress', 'Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade' finds Ross O'Carroll-Kelly dealing with the trials of parenthood.

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The Trial by Franz Kafka...

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Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information.

 

Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

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There last week and it was like a bomb went off. The shelves are so overstocked and doubled up horizontally so you have to pull the front stack of books off and hold them so you can see what’s on the shelf behind them.  Big stacks of double-ups and triple-ups of books in the same section, think the most I saw was six copies of the same book.  Place is still murky as hell and hard to find anything. 

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1 hour ago, nzwolfgang said:

There last week and it was like a bomb went off. The shelves are so overstocked and doubled up horizontally so you have to pull the front stack of books off and hold them so you can see what’s on the shelf behind them.  Big stacks of double-ups and triple-ups of books in the same section, think the most I saw was six copies of the same book.  Place is still murky as hell and hard to find anything. 

Good to see you keep coming back?

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Robert Ludlum's - The Geneva Strategy (Covert-One series) by Jamie Freveletti ..

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On one evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping.

Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy.

He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to program the drones.

If revealed, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States.

Jon Smith and the Covert One team begin a worldwide search to recover the officials, but as the first kidnapping victims are rescued, they show disturbing signs of brainwashing or mind-altering drugs.

Smith's investigation leads him to Fort Detrick, where a researcher, Dr. Laura Taylor, had been attempting to create a drug to wipe memory from soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

But Dr. Taylor's research was suspended almost a year ago, when she was placed in a mental institution. Now, if Smith doesn't figure out the brainwashing drug, and track down the kidnapped Nick Rendel, the kidnappers will soon have the power to carry out drone strikes anywhere in the world....

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Breakfast Of Champions (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut...

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In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

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A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly..

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It is deep winter. The darkness is unending.

The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found.

Eklund is no ordinary investigator. He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker will be drawn into Eklund's world, a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts . .

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The Dharma Expedient by Neville Sarony...

 

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Max Devlin is an ex-Gurkha officer down on his luck.

When his livelihood and business are expropriated by a corrupt government, he finds himself accepting an unlikely proposal: to lead a mysterious group of foreign academics into the remotest valleys of Nepal.

Devlin and his Sherpas must guide this unlikely team to complete their mission before the first monsoon breaks, bringing with it flash floods and dangerous landslides.

But it soon becomes apparent these are no ordinary academics - high in the majestic mountains, tensions escalate when Devlin realizes his clients are in fact conducting a clandestine operation.

Events take on a sinister dimension when a young Sherpa disappears and is found dead the next morning, close to the camp.

The assignment is compromised, and Devlin's team must rush to complete their mission, with the Chinese army in hot pursuit.

At the heart of the expedition lies a shocking secret that will rock the spiritual and geopolitical foundations of the Himalayas.

And it's Devlin's job to hang on for as long as he can to complete his mission at the 'roof of the world'.

From the steamy night clubs of Calcutta to the perilousicy rock faces of the highest mountain passes, The Dharma Expedient is a breathtaking journey into one of the most beautiful, mystical - and corrupt - places on earth.

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Home by Harlan Coben...

 

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Ten years after the high-profile kidnapping of two young boys, only one returns home in Harlan Coben’s gripping Myron Bolitar thriller.

A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced.

For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager.

Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken?

And most critically:

What can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend?

Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home.

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Out of the Rough - by Steve Williams..

 

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Steve Williams’ much-anticipated account of his years caddying for some of the world’s top golfers, including Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Greg Norman and Raymond Floyd.

One of the most successful caddies of the modern era, having amassed 150 wins, Kiwi Steve Williams has worked with some of the golfing world’s best, including 13 years on the bag of Tiger Woods.

Together, Woods and Williams won more than 80 tournaments, with 13 major championships among them.

In this candid reflection on his years caddying for Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Raymond Floyd, Terry Gale, Ian Baker-Finch and Adam Scott, Williams shares the highs and lows of their careers, explains the critical role of a caddy and offers a rare insider’s view of the professional golfing world.

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One Last Breath by Stephen Booth..

 

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Set in England’s legendary Peak District, Stephen Booth’s acclaimed mysteries tell tales of men and women under siege by both ordinary life and extraordinary crime.

Now, in a stunning, fascinatingly intelligent novel, Booth’s uneasy young policeman, Ben Cooper, encounters an enigma that begins with a shocking murder and a victim’s . . . One Last Breath..

Around the ancient Cave system in Derbyshire are thronging tourists, a medieval castle, and the thriving town of Castleton. With its underground tunnels and caverns, it’s the perfect place for a man to hide - or vanish.

Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry are looking for such a man, one who is on a rampage of revenge.

After thirteen years in prison, Mansell Quinn has emerged a man enraged. Hours after violating his parole, Quinn is the chief suspect in a fresh murder.

And his original sin, the brutal killing of his lover, still haunts the valley.

Because Quinn has always maintained his innocence, the people who lined up against him then are in dire danger now.

Ben may be one of those people, for he is the son of the cop who had arrested Quinn thirteen years earlier.

But while his department races to find Quinn, Ben wonders if the man was indeed guilty of the first crime.

when another new victim is found, Ben stubbornly clings to the old case and makes himself an open target for a killer.

For Ben, the real story of Mansell Quinn is as hidden as the caves beneath them.

His search for answers will lead him on a twisting, harrowing journey through that maze of darkness–into the shocking light of truth.