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Death Game

by Cheryl Swanson

Cooper O'Brien knows all about deception--human or otherwise. Confronted with the videotape of her younger brother murdering another boy in cold blood, she refuses to believe it despite overwhelming evidence and her own knowledge of how unstable Jimmie is. Still, with all his faults, nothing will convince her he has the capacity for murder, and she intends to prove it.

Twilight Saga: Book 4

Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by... (more)

Deadly Beautiful: A Novel

by Sam Baker

Fashion and murder collide in Deadly Beautiful, Sam Baker’s smart, hip, and thrilling new novel as newspaper reporter-turned-fashion writer Annie Anderson investigates a secret underground where many drop-dead-gorgeous models have gone to “make it”–and some have just dropped dead. A serial killer with a thirst for young American models-slash-escorts is on the loose in Tokyo, and the local press is all over it.... (more)

Robert Langdon: Book 2

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously... (more)

The King of Torts

by John Grisham

The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of... (more)

Misery

by Stephen King

A writer is held hostage by his number-one fan in the novel that "demand<s> that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology" ( Publishers Weekly ). His deeply felt understanding of what terrifies us doesn't hurt either.

Camel Club: Book 1

The Camel Club

by David Baldacci

Conspiracy theories--everybody has one. The difference with this conspiracy is that it's all too real. David Baldacci's The Camel Club takes readers inside the Beltway as four unlikely misfits struggle not only to survive, but to save their president and their country from a plot that will lead to nuclear disaster.Bestselling BaldacciLast Man StandingThe WinnerTotal Control The Simple TruthAbsolute PowerSaving... (more)

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

Four mesmerizing novellas, including the ones that inspired the movies The Shawshank Redemption , Apt Pupil , and Stand by Me .

Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm Novels)

Body Farm: Book 2

Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm Novels)

by Jefferson Bass

Dr. Bill Brockton, the founder of the world-famous Body Farm, is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young man's battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga, and it's up to the talented Dr. Brockton to assemble the pieces of the forensic puzzle. Brockton is brought into the case by the rising star of the state's mechanical examiners, Jess Carter. Just as they're on the verge of breaking the case... (more)

Twilight Saga: Book 1

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

Deeply sensuous and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.... (more)

Cathedral

by Nelson Demille

St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police... (more)

King-Maxwell: Book 3

Simple Genius

by David Baldacci

David Baldacci's much-loved protagonists Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are having trouble adjusting to life in the wake of the terrible events that drove them to the brink in HOUR GAME. Dogged by hidden demons from her past, then almost killed in a barroom brawl, Michelle agrees to try therapy at a mental-health facility, where she simultaneously busts a criminal drug-dealing ring! Meanwhile, to... (more)

Conrad Voort: Book 1

The Broken Hearts Club

by Ethan Black

They meet every week in the dingy back room of a bar in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger turns to hate. The rejection turns to rage. And the Broken Hearts Club spins violently out of control--exploding into murderous acts of vengeance. Detective Voort is assigned the case, determined to catch an elusive killer who is... (more)

The Bone Parade

by Mark Nykanen

shley Stassler is not your average artist. He has been wildly praised for a series of bronze sculptures that group families together, depicting them in moments of excruciating physical and emotional pain-but the art world has no clue as to how he creates such authentic, gruesome, seemingly tortured human representations. He assigns each family a number, and now he's up to number nine. What's in store for family... (more)

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Death Game

by Cheryl Swanson

Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer

Deadly Beautiful: A Novel

by Sam Baker

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

The King of Torts

by John Grisham

Misery

by Stephen King

The Camel Club

by David Baldacci

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm Novels)

by Jefferson Bass

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

Cathedral

by Nelson Demille

Simple Genius

by David Baldacci

The Broken Hearts Club

by Ethan Black

The Bone Parade

by Mark Nykanen