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  The Book of Lost Things

  by John Connolly

  New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those... (more)
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  Samuel Johnson vs the Devil: Book 1

  The Gates

  by John Connolly

  A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 1

  Every Dead Thing

  by John Connolly

  Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an "extravagantly gifted" ( Kirkus Reviews) new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 2

  Dark Hollow

  by John Connolly

  Internationally acclaimed author John Connolly thrilled readers with his debut bestseller, Every Dead Thing. Now he gives a new name to fear with this atmospheric, spine-tingling page-turner. DARK HOLLOW Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, former New York police detective Charlie Parker retreats home to Scarborough, Maine, to rebuild his shattered life. But his return reawakens old ghosts,... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 8

  The Lovers

  by John Connolly

  Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually... (more)
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  Nocturnes

  by John Connolly

  Bestselling author John Connolly's first collection of short fiction, Nocturnes, now features five additional stories -- never-before published for an American audience -- in a dark, daring, utterly haunting anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In "The New Daughter," a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 6

  The Unquiet

  by John Connolly

  But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows. John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller writers. Now, in The Unquiet, private detective Charlie Parker returns to untangle a horrifying story of... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 4

  The White Road

  by John Connolly

  Hailed as "one of the best" ( Toronto Sun ) writers of contemporary suspense fiction, international bestselling author John Connolly returns with an electrifying novel featuring his acclaimed private detective, Charlie Parker. In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 3

  The Killing Kind

  by John Connolly

  John Connolly's Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" (Publishers Weekly) Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style. THE KILLING KIND When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 7

  The Reapers

  by John Connolly

  A brilliantly chilling novel by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly about a chain of killings, linked obscurely by great distances and the passage of years, and the settling of their blood-debts -- past, present, and future. As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up and moves on, but he is forever changed by the... (more)
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  Bad Men

  by John Connolly

  BAD MEN On the Maine island once known as Sanctuary, policeman Joe Dupree is the guardian of its secrets, keeper of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary had been steeped in carnage once, centuries ago, when its settlers were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Now, a strange, otherworldly evil is about to descend again....With rookie officer Sharon Macy, Joe stands guard against a bloodthirsty band of... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 5

  The Black Angel

  by John Connolly

  When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel -- considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend.... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 9

  The Whisperers

  by John Connolly

  In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada. It is there, in the vast and porous Great North Woods, that a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq. Illicit goods—drugs, cash, weapons, even people—are changing hands. And... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 10

  The Burning Soul

  by John Connolly

  Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone... (more)
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  Samuel Johnson vs the Devil: Book 2

  Hell's Bells

  by John Connolly

  "Hell's Bells" is the UK edition of "The Infernals"Samuel Johnson - with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd - has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs Abernathy is not one to take defeat lying down. When she reopens the portal and sucks Samuel and Boswell down into the underworld, she brings an ice-cream van full of dwarfs as well. And two... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 11

  Wrath of Angels

  by John Connolly

  In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of a plane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money. It is power: a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil. Now a battle is about to commence between those... (more)
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  Cuervos (Spanish Edition)

  by John Connolly

  Para la policia del estado de Maine, el supuesto secuestro de un menor debe considerarse homicidio tres horas despues de que se denuncie su desaparicion. Tan terrible medida tendra que aplicarse en la pequena y aislada localidad de Pastors Bay, donde una madre ha alertado de la desaparicion de su hija adolescente, llamada Anna. De inmediato, la policia lanza a todos sus efectivos en su busca. La investigacion... (more)
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  ANGEL NEGRO, EL

  by CONNOLLY JOHN

  A veces hechos sin aparente conexion y que ocu-rren en lugares muy distantes se vinculan de un modo misterioso y forman una red de la que es dificil escapar. En El angel negro el detective Charlie Bird Parker protagonista ya de cinco novelas policiacas de John Connolly se ve sumido en una de estas situaciones un enrevesado caso en que la realidad y la fantasmagoria se funden de manera inextricable. Estas son las... (more)