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The Cabinet of Curiosities
The Cabinet of Curiosities
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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Weird happenings at NYC's Museum of Natural History follow the discovery of a 19th-century, mass grave. Spines cut from corpses. Impalements on dinosaur horns. It's all frightful enough to rouse the FBI's quirkiest investigator — the pale, enigmatic... (read more)

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Kiss the Girls
Kiss the Girls
by James Patterson
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Patterson didn't write all our Best Jet Bets, but no thriller list from the nineties would be complete without this slickly written punch to the gut. Detective Alex Cross returns to spar with a self-styled Casanova, a co-ed killer who sometimes stalks... (read more)

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The Godfather
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
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This is where many of us got our first exposure to Mob dynamics: sausage-making, sex standing up, crooked cops, beheaded horses, spousal abuse, family loyalty. Thugs all, but you gotta love 'em.... (read more)

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Blood work
Blood work
by Michael Connelly
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Many mystery lovers will argue that Connelly's best writing is found outside of his well-known, long-running Harry Bosch series. And this non-Bosch title would prove their point. Picture this: An ex-FBI agent recovering from a heart transplant is... (read more)

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Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure
Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure
by Michael Hoeye
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"Hermux ranks right up there with literature's greatest mice of mettle: Stuart Little and Redwall's Martin the Warrior."... (read more)

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Platform
Platform
by Michel Houellebecq
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Lots of interesting, kinky sex brackets this novel's ideas of the good and bad of global tourism. Our hero's wanderings through far-flung locales allows the author to explore lust, love, travel, adventure, capitalism — and how they all intertwine. As... (read more)

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The Godfather
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
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This is where many of us got our first exposure to Mob dynamics: sausage-making, sex standing up, crooked cops, beheaded horses, spousal abuse, family loyalty. Thugs all, but you gotta love 'em.... (read more)

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Hostage
Hostage
by Robert Crais
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Warning: Hostage will hold you captive. Veteran mystery writer Robert Crais leaps into hyperdrive with this edge-of-your-seat thriller, touted by many reviewers as the best of 2001. Now in paperback, Hostage should become this year's must-have summer... (read more)

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Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel
Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
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If you don't read Reacher, you don't know Jack. So, dive headfirst into this taut and brutal tale of hero Jack Reacher — a lone drifter, a trained killer, a man of justice — as he rights wrongs and defends the helpless. It's author Lee Child's best... (read more)

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Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
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What pregnant Mom didn't feel a few sharp pains upon learning the truth of Rosemary's little bundle of Hell? For that matter, what men didn't also feel a twitch or two? A book that strikes at our origins ? the womb ? and convinces us no place is safe.... (read more)

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Girls: A Paean
Girls: A Paean
by Nic Kelman
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Hot sex sears a wide path through this controversial novel's landscape of the male psyche. Destinations include the obvious (lust, money, power), but also those less tangible factors that set a man's course (ambition, failure, meaning, purpose... (read more)

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Servants of the Map
Servants of the Map
by Andrea Barrett
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"This award-winning author continues to chronicle our wonder of the world. She did it in Ship Fever (winner of the 1996 National Book Award) and The Voyage of the Narwhal, and does it again in this collection of powerful, sometimes gut-wrenching stories.... (read more)

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Franklin Flyer
Franklin Flyer
by Nichola Christopher
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Chance, wanderlust, and a mysterious woman propel our hero through a high-speed life of love and adventure. Franklin Flyer, named after the train he was born on, speeds along many tracks — explorer, artist, publisher, inventor — in his quest for... (read more)

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The Clearing
The Clearing
by Tim Gautreaux
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Deep immersion into rambunctious lives and a hostile locale makes The Clearing a top contender for summer's best escapist reading. Fresh in paperback, this gritty, post-WWI swamp epic (not to be confused with the recently released Robert Redford film... (read more)

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Sucker Bet
Sucker Bet
by James Swain
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Can't find a thriller that really pays off? Your luck's about to change. James Swain's con-artist capers will transport you to the glitzy, sleazy worlds of wham-bam casino scams. Sucker Bet, one of Swain's best, plays hookers against hoodlums against... (read more)

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The Godfather
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
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