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Signing Maximum Ride #4: The Final Warning at BookExpo America

May.22.2009

Signing Maximum Ride #4: The Final Warning at BookExpo America

Patterson will be signing the fourth book in the wildly popular teen series.

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PUBLISHED: Nov.14.2011

Kill Alex Cross

The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.28.2010

Private (with Maxine Paestro)

The police can't help you Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily-and his staff of investigators use the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.26.2010

The 9th Judgement (with Maxine Paetro)

The most personal A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. The most dangerous The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.23.2010

The 8th Confession (with Maxine Paetro)

Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and it's the Women's Murder Club's scariest investigation ever. APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous millionaires mingle...while someone is watching-waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city's most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.16.2009

Max (Maximum Ride Book 5)

Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone--or something--is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.21.2008

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells--the greatest power is the power to create. Daniel X has that power. Daniel's secret abilities -- like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses -- have helped him survive. But Daniel...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.09.2008

Sail

Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2008

7th Heaven (Women's Murder Club Series #7)

Two cases have pushed San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer beyond her limits. In the first, a terrible fire in a wealthy home has left a married couple dead and Lindsay and her partner, Rich Conklin, searching for clues. At the same time, Michael Campion, the son of California's ex-governor with a reputation for partying, has been missing for a month. When there finally seems to...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.13.2012

Private Games

On your mark Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. Get set The...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.17.2011

The Christmas Wedding

The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2011

Cross Fire

Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories—is the marksman a hero or a...

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PUBLISHED: May.10.2011

Daniel X: Demons and Druids

Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he's taken on some of the most fearsome and fiendish aliens in the universe, and now he's aiming to extinguish his next target: the explosive demon of fir, Phosphorius Beta, and his army of flame-weaving...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.29.2009

Swimsuit

Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears. Fearing the worst, her parents travel to Hawaii to investigate for themselves, never expecting the horror that awaits them. LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins is conducting his own research into the case, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller. With no leads and no closer to...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.28.2008

Sundays at Tiffanys

by James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael-but only she can see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.13.2007

Double Cross

Alex Cross rejoins the police force to face the most diabolical villain he’s ever encountered-a serial killer with a hunger for mega-celebrity. Just when detective Alex Cross thought his life was calming down, he finds himself back in the game-this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., has the whole East Coast on edge...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.17.2008

Maximum Ride: The Final Warning

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of "Flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true--except that they're still being hunted by new threats at every turn. This time, the US government wants to keep the Flock under observation, offering a safe haven and...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.10.2007

You've Been Warned

Kristin Burns is making her way in New York City. Her photos are being considered at a major Manhattan gallery, she works by day with two wonderful children, and the man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. But just as everything she’s ever wanted is finally within reach, her life changes forever—with one murderous nightmare. Kristin wakes up every morning from the same chilling...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.02.2007

The Quickie (co-written with Michael Ledwidge)

Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2007

Thriller: Stories to Keep You up All Night

Featuring North America’s foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of...

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PUBLISHED: May.29.2007

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. The time has arrived for Max and her winged “flock” to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of “Re-evolution”—a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a...

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PUBLISHED: May.07.2007

The 6th Target (co-written with Maxine Paetro)

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women’s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco Police Department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: Children are being plucked off the streets...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2007

Judge & Jury

Bestselling author James Patterson returns with an unstoppable novel of law and revenge. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss “The Electrician,” when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vows the Electrician’s next move will be from a jail cell. Andie Echeverra, a part-time...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.06.2007

Step on a Crack

Pop a bowl of popcorn, settle into a comfy chair and you might finish this combination thriller and tearjerker before the popcorn. Bestseller Patterson (Cross) and Ledwidge (The Narrowback) spin a fantastic tale of an audacious mass kidnapping and the unlikely detective thrust into the primary role of negotiator, sleuth and hero. Michael Bennett, a senior NYPD homicide detective,...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.13.2006

Cross

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, D.C., Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.’s rough neighborhoods. Years later, still haunted by his wife’s death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police...

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Feb.26.2009 - 12:21 pm

Your Kid Can Fly!

James has the SECRET to getting your kids reading and loving it. You tell me in letters and emails that your kids won't read but, before you give up on them, take a look at my...

May.13.2008 - 11:23 am

Turning Those Pages

Well we're starting to make a little noise here, anyhow. A publishing industry magazine noticed both the RIF funding issue and the blog entry I did the other week...

Apr.25.2008 - 6:16 pm

The Excitement of Reading

People frequently ask me why I keep going. I mean I already have more #1 bestsellers than any other person ever has. So why do I keep writing books? Why do I bother doing a blog...

Apr.09.2008 - 5:47 am

What's on your bookshelf?

Like in this recent, popular, New York Times piece, there’s been some press lately about how important books are as a means of identifying people with similar interests and...

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Nov.21.2002

Published by The New York Times

With a trail of intrigue that involves the Army and has links to the Vietnam War, Four Blind Mice constructs a straightforward mystery investigation punctuated by scattered...

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Audio: The Unexamined Life Examined In 'Mrs. Bridge'

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About James

James Patterson is an award-winning American author. Formerly the chairman of advertising company J. W. Thompson in the early 1990s, Patterson came up with the slogan "Toys R Us Kid." Shortly after his success with Along Came A Spider, he retired...

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Signing Maximum Ride #4: The Final Warning at BookExpo America

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Prolific author of page-turners