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  Agent Pendergast: Book 1

  Relic

  by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

  The book that started the New York Times bestselling collaboration of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.   Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate... (more)
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  Dr. Steven Cross Series: Book 4

  The Voynich Cypher

  by Russell Blake

  When a sacred relic is stolen from its subterranean guarded vault, Dr. Steven Cross, amateur cryptographer, becomes embroiled in a deadly quest to decipher one of history's most enigmatic documents - a 15th century parchment written entirely in unbreakable code; The Voynich Manuscript. Stalked by secret societies, and aided by the daughter of a murdered colleague, a trail of riddles catapults Cross from England to... (more)
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  Interlands: Book 1

  Interlands

  by Vincent H. O'Neil, Henry V. O'Neil

  A tale of modern-day horror from award-winning novelist Vincent H. O'Neil:In Providence, Rhode Island, graduate student Angie Morse has discovered evidence that an ancient stone obelisk worshiped by a colonial-era cult is still in existence. Hoping to finish her studies with a career-boosting headline, she's combing the woods to find it.As she digs into the history of the obelisk and the cult... (more)
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  Baudolino

  by Umberto Eco

  It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts-a... (more)
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  Bliss

  by Lauren Myracle

  When Bliss' parents, who are hippies, leave the commune, Bliss has to go to her fancy grandma's house in a tiny Atlanta neighborhood. For Bliss, it’s like being set down on an alien planet. The only guide Bliss has to her new environment is what she’s seen on The Andy Griffith Show . But Mayberry is poor preparation for Crestview Academy, an elite school where the tensions of the present and the dark secrets of... (more)
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  The Radix

  by Brett King

  A US agent has been hired to locate the legendary Radix, a relic with sacred healing powers, but the Knights of Malta will stop at nothing to get the relic for their own use and gain favor with the Pope.
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  John Reeves Series: Book 1

  The Fall of Billy Hitchings

  by Kirkus MacGowan

  What Readers are Saying: "The Fall of Billy Hitchings is the best debut novel I've read. Kirkus MacGowan writes masterfully and will keep you guessing until the last page." - Mark W. Duncan "I found myself, literally, on the edge of my seat hoping that one of my favorite characters did not just bite the big one." - J. Scott Sharp Author, Not Even There (A Short Story) "Kirkus wasted no time weaving a tale... (more)