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The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett  Publisher Comments Ken Follett, internationally-acclaimed master of split-second suspense, author of six #1 bestsellers, reaches beyond the expected to achieve his most brilliant and remarkable novel. The epic story of the building of a cathedral in 12th century England...
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Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher Novels)
by Lee Child Publisher Comments From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night... In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one... And on the streets of Portland...
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One Shot
by Lee Child 
Publisher Comments This astonishing "New York Times" bestseller takes Jack Reacher on his most relentless quest for justice yet. The case isn't what it seems; lives are tangled in baffling ways; and the killer missed one shot--giving Reacher one shot at the truth....
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Simple Genius
by David Baldacci Publisher Comments In a world of secrets, human genius is power. And sometimes it is simply deadly... A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose...
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Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
Powells.com Staff Pick 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...
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The Enemy (Jack Reacher Novels)
by Lee Child Publisher Comments Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’ s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’ s brightest stars. But in every cop’ s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a...
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The Woods
by Harlan Coben Publisher Comments Twenty years ago at summer camp, Paul Copeland's sister died in the woods, the alleged victim of a serial killer. Her body was never found. Now, Paul is the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey, immersed in one of the biggest cases of his career-a...
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The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel
by Alan Furst
Publisher Comments An autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy....
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Despite never having been into the whole "zombie thing," I picked up World War Z. Halfway through, it dawned on me that I was becoming really, deeply scared. A few more pages in and I was trying to figure out how, exactly, to make my house both...
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Man in the Middle
by Brian Haig Publisher Comments Ripped from today's headlines, this novel finds Army lawyer Sean Drummond caught between duty to Washington's elite and the soldiers in Iraq after he's sent to investigate the suicide of one of the most influential defense officials....
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The Hard Way
by Lee Child Publisher Comments In Lee Child's new thriller, ex-military cop Jack Reacher sees more than most people would . . . and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth--and save two innocent...
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Devil May Care: The New James Bond Novel
by Sebastian Faulks Publisher Comments Bond is back. With a vengeance. Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy-an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film, written to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth on May 28,...
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Nothing to Lose: A Jack Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels #12)
by Lee Child Publisher Comments Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child's electrifying new novel...
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Child 44: A Novel
by Tom Rob Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick I stayed up long past my bedtime to get to the end. I get a lot of debut crime/thriller/suspense fiction across my desk, and every book and author is hyped as the next big thing. This is the first one where I think that might be true. Usually, with a...
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Odd Hours
by Dean Koontz
Powells.com Staff Pick Odd Hours continues the story of Dean Koontz's most likeable and quirky character, Odd Thomas, a young man who "sees dead people" as well as a few other spooky things. Koontz is at his best here, introducing several new characters just as quirky as Odd...
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Absolute Friends
by John le Carré Publisher Comments An absolutely triumphant bestseller — everywhere hailed as the masterpiece toward which John le Carré has been building since the fall of communism. This epic tale of loyalty, betrayal, and international espionage spans the lives of two friends...
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher Novels)
by Lee Child Publisher Comments Across the country women are being murdered by a killer who leaves no evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to a motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, the only thing that links the victims is the one man they all knew:...
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The Quickie
by James Patterson Publisher Comments When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren...
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Maximum Ride #03: Saving the World: And Other Extreme Sports
by James Patterson Publisher Comments In this #1 "New York Times" bestseller, 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 a sinister experiment to reengineer a select population into a...
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World without End
by Ken Follett Publisher Comments Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year —...
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