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The Collector (Back Bay Books)

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati.... (more)

Legends

by Robert Silverberg, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist

The greatest collection of original fantasy short novels ever--11 of the most famous bestselling writers of epic fantasy tell new and original tales set in their bestselling worlds. Featured are works by Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Robert Silverberg, Tad Williams, Raymond E. Feist, and, of course, the master of the... (more)

Sole Survivor

by Dean Koontz

A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead—no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind.... (more)

Doomsday Conspiracy

by Sidney Sheldon

Handpicked by the NSA to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the recent crash of a weather balloon, Robert Bellamy searches for clues in Rome, Budapest, and Texas. Reprint.

The Hustler

by Walter Tevis

When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first—and the best—novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an audience for the movie with the same name starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The Hustler is about the victories and losses of one "Fast" Eddie Felson, a poolroom hustler who travels from town to town... (more)

Space Odyssey: Book 3

2061: Odyssey Three

by Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the... (more)

The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)

The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)

by Carson McCullers

Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brother's honeymoon.

Powers That Be

by Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted, while some people were simply disappearing. None of the locals were talking to the company, so the company sent disabled combat veteran Yanaba Maddock to spy. But a strange thing happened. With her relocation to the arctic planet came a return of Yana's health and strength. And the more... (more)

Broken

by Martina Cole

DI Kate Burrows thought she'd never face a killer like the Grantley Ripper again. But she was wrong. One by one, children are being abandoned. Thankfully, they're rescued from harm. Then one victim is not so lucky, and Kate knows she's in a race against time to save lives. As a parent herself, Kate's finding the case tough and she needs the support of her lover, Patrick Kelly, more than ever. But Patrick's got... (more)

The Know

by Martina Cole

Joanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him...

Evening Class

by Maeve Binchy

Dreaming of Italy, eager to learn the language, a disparate group of Dubliners comes together for an introductory Italian course held in a drab classroom every Tuesday and Thursday evening. The teacher, Aidan Dunne, has hit an all-time low in both his career and family life, and so his self-image is hinging on the success of this class. The students are a varied cast of characters: there's Signora, so smitten... (more)

Problem at Pollensa Bay

by Agatha Christie

A collectionof short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie's best-loved detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin...All great crime writers have their favourite creations. Similarly, every great sleuth has his, or her, own preferred method of deduction. Take the charming Parker Pyne, who relies upon an intuitive knowledge of human nature to solve the Problem at Pollensa Bay.... (more)

The Hand of the Devil

by Dean Vincent Carter

When young magazine journalist Ashley Reeves receives an intriguing letter, he leaves his London office in the hope of reporting on an unusual species of insect - the Ganges Red. That evening he arrives on Aries Island and encounters the writer of the letter - Reginald Mather. At first Mather seems no more than an eccentric collector, happy to live in isolation on the island. But when Reeves unearths the horrific... (more)

by Jane Green

Cath and Si are best friends. Total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy, and emotionally closed. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. When Portia steps back into their lives, her reappearance sets off a chain of events that tests them to the limit. Does Portia have a hidden agenda, or is she just looking for happy endings all round? Whatever the... (more)

by William Boyd

'A most extraordinary parable about mankind ...quite unlike anything else I have ever read' - "Sunday Express". 'I live on Brazzaville Beach ...I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ...One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for... (more)

The Casanova papers

by Carl MacDougall

by Ian Fleming

The licence to kill for the Secret Service was a great honour. It brought James Bond the only assignments he enjoyed, the dangerous ones. At the Casino in Deauville, Bond's game is baccarat. But away from the discreet salons, the caviar and champagne, it's 007 versus one of Russia's most powerful and ruthless agents.

A Dark-Adapted Eye

by Barbara Vine

Like most families they had their secrets. And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors, even murder.... (more)

by Ian Fleming

Tiffany Case stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter.

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Tags: senior fiction

The Collector (Back Bay Books)

by John Fowles

Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

Legends

by Robert Silverberg, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist

Sole Survivor

by Dean Koontz

Doomsday Conspiracy

by Sidney Sheldon

The Hustler

by Walter Tevis

2061: Odyssey Three

by Arthur C. Clarke

The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)

by Carson McCullers

Powers That Be

by Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Broken

by Martina Cole

The Know

by Martina Cole

Evening Class

by Maeve Binchy

Problem at Pollensa Bay

by Agatha Christie

The Hand of the Devil

by Dean Vincent Carter

by Jane Green

by William Boyd

The Casanova papers

by Carl MacDougall

by Ian Fleming

A Dark-Adapted Eye

by Barbara Vine

by Ian Fleming