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Lifeguard
The danger isn’t in the water. As a lifeguard in Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect except that she prefers caviar and Manolo...
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3rd Degree
Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes...
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London Bridges
Alex Cross is back—and so is the Big Bad Wolf. Terrorists have seized the world’s largest cities. London, Washington, DC, New York, and Frankfurt will be destroyed...
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Maximum Ride: School's Out - Forever
“Adventure, fighting, backstabbing and love abound” (Voya) in this action-packed follow-up to the blockbuster Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. The heart-stopping...
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Mary, Mary
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. A top actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly...
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Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
There’s one last chance to save the world in Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, the closing chapter of James Patterson’s thrilling trilogy....
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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Characters based on James Patterson’s international bestsellers When the Wind Blows and The Lake House are reinvented in Maximum Ride and are launched on the...
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The 5th Horseman
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women’s Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a...
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Beach Road
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small—occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man...
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4th of July
After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever—one that could easily...
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The Apostles
Harry Haitch takes a hazardous journey to discover who killed his father and learns that he didn’t know his dad at all. In the end he finds the truth but at great...
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Deception
A mystery anthology, including my short story, Red Flagged, in which Homicide Detective James T. Kirkland gets more than he bargained for when he tries to do his...
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Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?:  The Surprising Science of Pregnancy
Science writer Jena Pincott spent her pregnancy and postpartum months asking the questions that doctors don’t answer, and finding answers that expectant mothers...
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Deadly Currents
  The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small town’s economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a...
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Story - how the Welsh flag came ito being
This is a short story for children of all ages. You’ve all seen the wonderful dragon on the Welsh flag – well – this is how it came to be there. There’s a dragon, a...
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The moment Lilith Straight dies, the Devil appears to claim her soul and cash in on a longtime family curse. Now, Lilith has no choice but to work for him as a...
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Thomas O. Larkin
Thomas O. Larkin was among the first to test what would be called the "California Dream." Arriving in Mexican California in 1832, he expected to become a rich man--...
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American Monsters by Sezin Koehler, illustrated by Rose Deniz
"An important work of post-modern feminist horror, American Monsters is a poignant, angry volume about predation, the corruption of the rave scene, and...
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Reach Your Zen Moment! The latest edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Buddhism updates one of Alpha Books's most successful books in the religion/...
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Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient...
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