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The Leopard
"With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime fiction... Jo Nesbø wins." The Times (U.K.)...
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Non-fiction articles and essays from various sources (including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Rolling Stone, and many more), by one of the most astute observers of contemporary culture writing today. Oh, and he's the father of cyberpunk too....
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If the end of American Horror Story has left you needing a new haunted mansion to explore, Dean Koontz has a piece of real estate he'd like to show you......
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Lavishly illustrated with production sketches and photography from the set, and including a foreward by the show's creator, this title would be a lovely addition to the iPad library of any Downton Abbey fan....
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The Hunger Games: The First Book of the Hunger Games
Destined for widespread popularity and quite possibly a little controversy, this post-apocalyptic tale about teenagers who fight to the death to help feed their families is so riveting and heartbreaking, I ceased all essential functions until I finished it.
Recommended by David, Powells.com...
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A fast-paced departure from Stephenson's established brand of technology-driven storytelling, this nail-biter dives headlong into the present-day global economy and propels the reader on a worldwide adventure, complete with international spies, jihadists, Russian mobsters, and Chinese hackers — all wrapped in the virtual reality of a fiendishly innovative massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Like a John Grisham or Dan Brown born of the Unix command line, Stephenson intrigues and thrills with his most accessible novel yet.
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From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: A Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation....
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"[O]ne of the best time-travel stories since H. G. Wells. King has captured something wonderful. Could it be the bottomlessness of reality? The closer you get to history, the more mysterious it becomes. He has written a deeply romantic and pessimistic book. It's romantic about the real possibility of love, and pessimistic about everything else." Errol Morris, The New York Times Book Review...
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