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Former Navy SEAL James Reece's skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and [has] set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin. The attacks are being coordinated by a shadowy former Iraqi commando who has disappeared into Europe's underground. The United States government has an asset who can turn...
2) Suspect
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The psychological thriller that marked the debut of one of contemporary suspense fiction's most compelling heroes: "A gripping first novel...taut and fast-moving" (Washington Post).
Renowned psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin has it all — a thriving practice, a devoted, beautiful, fiercely intelligent wife, and a lovely young daughter. But when he's diagnosed with Parkinson's, O'Loughlin begins to dread the way his exceptional mind...
Renowned psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin has it all — a thriving practice, a devoted, beautiful, fiercely intelligent wife, and a lovely young daughter. But when he's diagnosed with Parkinson's, O'Loughlin begins to dread the way his exceptional mind...
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"In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll...
4) The fury
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to her private Greek island. You may think you know this story. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity, a private island, and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. What followed was a game of cat and...
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A psychiatrist, a mother, and an expert hitman each race against time in these three fast-paced thrillers from the world's #1 bestselling writer, James Patterson.
Dead Man Running: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases — and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers the plot to kill a presidential candidate.
113 Minutes: Molly Rourke's son has been murdered — and she knows who's responsible....
Dead Man Running: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases — and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers the plot to kill a presidential candidate.
113 Minutes: Molly Rourke's son has been murdered — and she knows who's responsible....
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Jack Reacher novels volume 2
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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher just happens to be walking by a Chicago dry cleaner when an attractive young FBI agent named Holly Johnson comes out carrying nine expensive outfits and a crutch to support her soccer-injured knee. As Holly stumbles, Reacher grabs her and her garments--which gets him kidnapped along with her by a trio of very determined badguys. Lucky for Holly--whose father just happens to be an Army general and current head of...
7) Payback
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Sisterhood series volume 2
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The New York Times bestselling author of Weekend Warriors continues her series of seven women drawn together by the promise of payback and poetic justice.
Some women get angry . . . the Sisterhood gets even.
Meet the Sisterhood—seven very different women who found one another in their darkest days and formed an indelible friendship, strong enough to heal their pasts and bring laughter and joy back...
Some women get angry . . . the Sisterhood gets even.
Meet the Sisterhood—seven very different women who found one another in their darkest days and formed an indelible friendship, strong enough to heal their pasts and bring laughter and joy back...
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In Paris ... Washington ... and a fabulous villa in Greece, an innocent American girl becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Dogulas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star ... and as Constantin Demiris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the stands that control them all"--Page 4 of cover.
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Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation...
11) Dirty Work
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A spiteful loser finds his true calling when he opens a highly successful business specializing in revenge.
13) The Switch
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When her twin sister turns up dead, Melina Lloyd teams up with her sister's lover to find the truth about the killing, only to find herself on the run from a criminal mastermind whose evil schemes could have global repercussions
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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
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Hamlet is commonly, regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father's death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then, appears and...
16) The burning
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Clay Edison novels volume 4
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"Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves....
17) Version zero
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"Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired...then black-balled across Silicon Valley. With time on his hands and revenge on his mind, Max and his longtime friend (and secretly the love of his life) Akiko, decide to get even by rebooting the internet. After all, in order to fix things, sometimes you have...
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Imperial Radch volume 1
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Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions
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On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all." "You're robbing me?" "Not you," Boyd replied, revealing a Temptation .38 Special. Angie Bing, the teller, scraped together $81,000. Boyd stuffed...
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Castles in their bones volume 2
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After the death of their sister, Princesses Daphne and Beatriz are both determined to avenge her, but neither princess can trust the other and with their mother still pulling the strings both girls risk meeting the same fate as their sister
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