James Patterson

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Virginia

Maximum Ride

In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb--now her betrayed and greatest enemy--that her purpose is save the world--but can she?

The Angel Experiment

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Frederick Pohl

Robinette Broadhead desperately tries to prevent the mysterious Foe from putting an end to all intelligent life in the universe

The Annals of the Heechee

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Clive Barker

A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold. . . . It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. Welcome to the Abarat.

Abarat

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Anne McCaffrey

Lord Artos -- later to rules as the legendary King Arthur -- knew he could defeat the Saxon invaders if only he could find a race of horses swift and strong enough to carry warriors in full regalia fast and far. And so he set out for the Continent, in search of the famed horses of the desert. The key to Lord Artos's plan was the young runaway Galwyn Varianus, whose gift for horse-trading was second only to his skill with horses. What no one expected was how crucial Galwyn would be to the upcoming battles -- as he mastered the secrets of the iron shoes that would protect the desert horses' delicate hooves... This fast-moving historical fantasy by bestselling author Anne McCaffrey -- the story of King Arthur as it has never been told before -- is about the beginnings of the British cavalry, as recounted by a boy growing up in exciting and perilous times.

Black Horses for the King

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There was a sudden stench of a dead sea creature. There was the sudden horror of a huge black shape closing over her. There was nothing... Then there were pieces of memory, isolated fragments that were so horrible her mind refused to accept them. Intense heat and shivering cold; excruciating pain; dismembered pieces of the human body. Sawn bones and searing screams. And when she awoke she found she was in a world that was not earth, and with a face and body that were not her own. She had become a Restoree...

Restoree

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Michael Crichton

"A page-turner...Chichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn." NEWSWEEK A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old.... "The suspense is real." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Sphere

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"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....

The Great Train Robbery

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The legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj have seen an eight-person field exhibition die. After startling discoveries, a new expedition is sent back into the Congo--its mission, to descend into the secret world where the only way back out may be through the grisliest death....

Congo

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A Novel 

In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete for control of the international electronics industry

Rising Sun

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An intelligence agent travels to such exotic locations as Tokyo, Iceland, Antarctica, and the Solomon Islands in a desperate attempt to prevent a global environmental catastrophe.

State of Fear

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Deep in the remote Nevada desert, eight people are trapped inside of the Xymos Corporation by a rapidly evolving swarm of predatory molecules that have massed together to form a powerful and intelligent organism that is targeting its creators.

Prey

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The Terminal Man

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Brian Lumley

Drawn together by a terrorist bomb attack, multimillionaire Thomas Schroeder and British Army Corporal Richard Garrison become friends, but Garrison begins to wonder about Schroeder's true motivations when he learns of the man's dabbling in the psychic arts

Psychomech

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Using the strength given to him by Psychomech to restore his dead lover to life and vanquish his enemies, Richard Garrison soon learns of the Psychosphere, another plane where mental powers rule.

Psychosphere

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Psychamok

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Arturo Perez-Reverte

Margaret Sayers Peden

Coy, a suspended sailor with time on his hands, meets the beautiful Tnger Soto in Barcelona at a maritime auction and embarks on an adventure to recover the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk in the seventeenth century by pirates. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

The Nautical Chart

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A request from a mysterious woman draws fencing master Don Jaime into a dangerous plot involving seduction, political intrigue, top-secret documents, and murder, in a historical mystery set against the turbulent backdrop of 1868 Madrid. By the author of The Seville Communion. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Fencing Master

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Margaret Jull Costa

While restoring a fifteenth-century masterpiece, Julia, a young art expert in Madrid, stumbles upon a real-life mystery as she sets out to find the killer responsible for a five-hundred-year-old murder and becomes the target of modern-day intrigue, betrayal, and death. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The Flanders Panel

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Lucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians.

The Club Dumas

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An emissary from the Vatican investigates the foul play surrounding the pending demolition of a crumbling church in the heart of old Seville, in a sophisticated thriller by the author of The Club Dumas. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

The Seville Communion

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Gear up for swashbuckling adventure in the second “riveting”* historical thriller in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the man’s family is “not of pure blood” and is, in fact, of Jewish descent—which will all but destroy the family name. As Alatriste struggles to save the young hostage from being burned at the stake, he soon finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the heart of the Spanish Inquisition.

Purity of Blood

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The first action-packed historical adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series, featuring a Spanish soldier who lives as a swordsman-for-hire in 17th century Madrid. 

Needing gold to pay off his debts, Captain Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers, stage a robbery, and give the travelers a fright. "No blood," they are told.

Then a mysterious stranger enters to clarify the job: he increases the pay, and tells Alatriste that, instead, he must murder the two travelers. When the attack unfolds, Alatriste realizes that these aren't ordinary travelers, and what happens next is only the first in a riveting series of twists and turns, with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe...

Captain Alatriste

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The extraordinary adventures of an Arab courtier among the fierce 10th-century Vikings 

It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea....

Eaters of the Dead

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Chuck Palahniuk

Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer's disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.

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James Patterson

The Angel Experiment

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Black Horses for the King

Anne McCaffrey

Restoree

Michael Crichton

Sphere

Michael Crichton

The Great Train Robbery

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Congo

Michael Crichton

Rising Sun

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State of Fear

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Prey

Michael Crichton

The Terminal Man

Brian Lumley

Psychomech

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Psychosphere

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Psychamok

Arturo Perez-Reverte; Margaret Sayers Peden

The Nautical Chart

Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Fencing Master

Arturo Perez-Reverte; Margaret Jull Costa

The Flanders Panel

Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Club Dumas

Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Seville Communion

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Purity of Blood

Arturo Perez-Reverte; Margaret Sayers Peden

Captain Alatriste

Michael Crichton

Eaters of the Dead

Chuck Palahniuk

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