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 Honeymoon
- Publisher's
Marketing: "When rich men begin to die mysteriously,
FBI agent John O'Hara is on the case. After a young
writer succumbs to an apparent heart attack, John turns
a probing eye to the man's ambitious widow." |
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 Hide
and Seek - Publisher's
Marketing: "Maggie Bradford is one of
the most beloved singer/songwriters anywhere. She's
also the devoted mother of two children. She seems
to have it all. And so, how could she have murdered
not just one, but two of her husbands? With unrelenting
suspense, James Patterson answers that question."
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 Cat
and Mouse - Publisher's
Marketing: "Alex Cross is back -- with a
cast of characters more sinister and deadly than ever.
Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for
revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued
by Thomas Augustine Pierce -- a brilliant and relentless
detective who may even be better than Cross. As the
bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered in his
own home, the game of cat and mouse leads to one final
trap...and it's anyone's guess who will survive." |
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 Roses
Are Red - Publisher's
Marketing: "The Mastermind is behind a
series of bank robberies notable for their precise
demands -- and their explosive violence when the demands
are not met exactly. When detective Alex Cross gets
involved and recognizes that a particular kind of
criminal mind is at work, the Mastermind decides to
make it his personal goal to take revenge on Cross
and his entire team. Amidst all this, Cross' relationship
with his girlfriend Christine is in shambles and his
beloved daughter Jannie is hospitalized with unexplained
seizures. The pressure is rising on every front, and
a shocking and explosive climax is definitely in store!"
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 Violets
Are Blue - Publisher's
Marketing: "When two joggers are found brutally
slain in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in a manner
that suggests a macabre ritual, Detective Alex Cross
is called in to investigate. The bizarre murders are
reminiscent of a Washington, D.C., case that Cross has
been unable to solve. With the help of a female San
Francisco detective, Cross' investigation takes him
deep inside a menacing world where role playing explodes
into bloodlust and frenzy. At the same time, a vicious
super-criminal from Cross' past known as the Mastermind
is stalking him. And in a shocking, deadly endgame,
the detective will at last discover the awful secret
of the Mastermind." |
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 The
Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride) - Publisher's
Marketing: "From Death Valley, California,
to the bowels of the New York City subway system,
14-year-old Max leads her feisty "family"
on a journey of action, adventure, and soul-seeking
in this #1 "New York Times" bestselling
series debut."
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 Kiss
the Girls - Publisher's
Marketing: "In Los Angeles, a reporter
investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly
disappears. Washington D.C.Us Alex Cross is back to
solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case
ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating,
cooperating, competing--and they are working coast
to coast."
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 Four
Blind Mice - Publisher's
Marketing: "Alex Cross is plunged into a
case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents
of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the
moves have the best weapons and training the world can
offer." |
 The
Devil Wears Prada - Publisher's
Marketing: "A delightfully dishy novel about
the all-time most impossible boss in the history of
impossible bosses.
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college,
lands the job "a million girls would die for."
Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile,
fabulously successful editor of "Runway magazine,
Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts "Prada!
Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by
impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and
beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight
leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication
to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn
each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a
scared, whimpering child.
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA gives a rich and hilarious new
meaning to complaints about "The Boss from Hell."
Narrated in Andrea's smart, refreshingly disarming voice,
it traces a deep, dark, devilish view of life at the
top only hinted at in gossip columns and over Cosmopolitans
at the trendiest cocktail parties. From sending the
latest, not-yet-in-stores Harry Potter to Miranda's
children in Paris by private jet, to locating an unnamed
antique store where Miranda had at some point admired
a vintage dresser, to serving lattes to Miranda at precisely
the piping hot temperature she prefers, Andrea is sorely
tested each and every day--and often late into the night
with orders barked over the phone. She puts up with
it all by keeping her eyes on the prize: a recommendation
from Miranda that will get Andrea a top job at any magazine
of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely
unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea
begins to realize that the job a milliongirls would
die for may just kill her. And even if she survives,
she has to decide whether or not the job is worth the
price of her soul." |
 Mama
- Publisher's
Marketing: "Mildred Peacock is the touch,
funny, feisty heroine of "Mama, " a survivor
who'll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred's
world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks,
but her five children are her dream, her hope and her
future. Not since Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
has a black woman's story been portrayed with such rich
power, honesty, and love." |
 A
Day Late and a Dollar Short -
Publisher's Marketing: "McMillan's
high-spirited novel introduces the Price family: matriarch
Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult
kids, each of whom sees life--and one another--through
thick and thin and entirely on their own terms. With
her hallmark exuberance and sassy cast of characters,
the author takes readers into the hearts, minds, and
souls of America." |
 Waiting
to Exhale - Publisher's
Marketing: "A hilarious and heartbreaking
look at four vibrant black women in their thirties,
who aren't holding their breath waiting for Mr. Right--but
they haven't stopped hoping." |
 Tom
Clancy's Splinter Cell -
Publisher's Marketing: "Created
by Tom Clancy, written by David Michaels." |
 Op-Center
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Op-Center: A beating heart of surveillance, intelligence,
and defensive technology, run by a crack team of operatives
both within its own walls and out in the field. Nothing
could prepare director Paul Hood and his Op-Center team
for what they are about to uncover--a very real, very
frightening power that could unleash new players in
a new Cold War." |
 Mirror
Image - Publisher's Marketing:
"In Los Angeles, an explosion kills the head of
a major movie studio. In New York, a woman is kidnapped,
threatening to spark the bloodiest Mafia war in history.
In Russia, another Op-Center goes on-line--for the other
side. And within one weekend, a handful of seemingly
unrelated events will take the New World Order to the
brink of extinction." |
 Games
of State - Publisher's
Marketing: "In the newly unified Germany,
old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos
Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence
and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn't
the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe
and cause turmoil throughout the United States. Paul
Hood and his team, already in Germany to buy a technology
for the new Regional Op-Center, become entangled in
the crisis. They uncover a shocking force behind the
chaos -- a group that uses cutting-edge technology to
promote hate and to influence world events." |
 Icebound
- Publisher's
Marketing: "The arctic night is endless.
The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death
arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems
right at home....the chill of the grave." |
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 Odd
Thomas - Publisher's
Marketing: ""The dead don't talk.
I don't know why." But they do try to communicate,
with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving
as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of
himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain
measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously
in love with the most beautiful girl in the world,
Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's
a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to
do his best by the silent souls who seek him out.
Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly
tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt
Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent
one. But this time it's different.
A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite,
a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's
worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following
him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants,
not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His
most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day
calendar for August 15.
Today is August 14.
In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken
to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing
desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms
of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm
with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community
of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
His account of two shattering days when past and present,
fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst
nightmares--and a testament by which to live: sanely
if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart
that even in the darkness must persevere."
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 Velocity
- Publisher's
Marketing: "Dean Koontz's unique talent
for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul
is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense
masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline.
If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing
excitement allowed in one novel, Velocity would break
them all. Get ready for the ride of your life....
VELOCITY
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads
a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change.
One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift,
he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper
of his car. "If you don't take this note to the
police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond
schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police,
I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity
work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.
It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the
police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice
to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides,
what could they do even if they took the note seriously?
No crime has actually been committed. But less than
twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher
is found murdered, and it's Bill's fault: he didn't
convince the police
to get involved. Now he's got another note, another
deadline, another ultimatum...and two new lives hanging
in the balance.
Suddenly Bill's average, seemingly innocuous life takes
on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare.
Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing
tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler
with every communication-until Bill is isolated with
the terrifying knowledge that he alone hasthe power
of life and death over a psychopath's innocent victims.
Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely
personal. Until the most chilling words of all are:
"The choice is yours."" |
 Bleachers
- Publisher's
Marketing: "High school all-American Neely
Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play
for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have
gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home
to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded
the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.
Now, as Coach Rake's "boys" sit in the bleachers
waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing,
they replay the old games, relive the old glories, and
try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie
Rake - or hate him. For Neely Crenshaw, a man who must
finally forgive his coach --- and himself - before he
can get on with his life, the stakes are especially
high." |
 The
Poet - Publisher's Marketing:
"Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat. But this
time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted
to write -- and the mystery he desperately needs to
solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and
cunning is at large, His targets: homicide cops, each
haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. His latest
victim: McEvoy's own brother. And his last may be McEvoy
himself." |
 The
Outsiders - Publisher's
Marketing: "When it was first published
in 1967, "The Outsiders" defied convention
with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of
Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself
in a difficult world." |
 Tex
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Easy going, thoughtless, and direct, Tex at 15
likes everyone and everything. Life with his 17-year-old
brother, Mason, would be just about perfect if only
Mason would stop complaining about Pop, who hasn't been
home in five months. Mason just wants to leave Oklahoma
for good. Can Tex keep it all together?" |
 Rumble
Fish - Publisher's Marketing:
"So far, whenever Rusty-James gets into trouble,
his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, has bailed him
out. Then one day Rusty-James's world comes apart--and
this time the Motorcycle Boy isn't around to pick up
the pieces." |
 That
Was Then, This is Now - Publisher's
Marketing: "Set in the same working-class
landscape as "The Outsiders, That Was Then, This
Is Now" paints a deeply felt portrait of best friends
Byron and Mark, as they grow up and grow apart." |
 The
Witching Hour - Publisher's
Marketing: "From the author of the extraordinary
Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft
and the occult through four centuries.
Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding
storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes
real for us a great dynasty of witches--a family given
to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy;
a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a
powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.
On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded,
a mute and fragile woman sits rocking . . . and The
Witching Hour begins.
It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. Rowan Mayfair,
a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery--aware
that she has special powers but unaware that she comes
from an ancient line of witches--finds the drowned body
of a man off the coast of California and brings him
to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans
and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve,
who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in
his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory
power that mystifies and frightens him.
As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in
love and--in passionate alliance--set out to solve the
mystery of "her past and "his unwelcome gift,
the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's
New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam
and a chateau in the France of Louis XIV. An intricate
tale of evil unfolds--an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century
Scotland, where the first "witch," Suzanne
of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher
. . . a creation that spells her own destruction and
torments each of her descendants in turn.
From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where
the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of
their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New
Orleans, as Julien--the clan's only male to be endowed
with occult powers--provides for the dynasty its foothold
in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas
of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing.
And always--through peril and escape, tension and release--there
swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence
versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against
madness, life against death. With a dreamlike power,
the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths,
to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and
risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to
her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve,
this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling
climax." |
 Interview
with the Vampire - Publisher's
Marketing: "Here are the confessions of
a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic,
this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing
force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss,
of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary
power of the senses." |
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 The
Vampire Lestat - Publisher's
Marketing: "Once an aristocrat in the
heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat
is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He
rushes through the centuries in search of others like
him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying
exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's
best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate,
and thrilling."
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 The
Queen of the Damned - Publisher's
Marketing: "A feat of mesmerizing storytelling,
a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes
Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand
year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha
has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind
and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual
novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of
the undead." |
 The
Tale of the Body Thief - Publisher's
Marketing: "In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling,
Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles
that began with the now classic "Interview with
the Vampire" and continued with "The Vampire
Lestat" and "The Queen of the Damned."
Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals.
For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark
and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat
is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale - everything
he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called
into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his
doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most
dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted
years of his long existence. "The Tale of the Body
Thief" is told with the unique - the mesmerizing
- passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish
the novels of Anne Rice." |
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 Cry
to Heaven - Publisher's
Marketing: "In this mesmerizing novel,
the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and
the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us
the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century
castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos
whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought
them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera
houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing
their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned
as half-men.
As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story,
as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans,
noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes,
saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice
brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian
life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface
of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic
terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. It is a novel that
only Anne Rice could have written, taking us into
a heartbreaking and enchanting moment in history,
a time of great ambition and great suffering--a tale
that challenges our deepest images of the masculine
and the feminine." |
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 The
Feast of All Saints - Publisher's
Marketing: "In the days before the Civil
War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern
histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they
were also descended from the French and Spanish who
enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this
dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of
four of them--men and women caught perilously between
the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression,
passion and pain."
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 Misery
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Can a best-selling author escape from a psychotic
nurse who wants him to respect her favorite literary
character?" |
 The
Shining - Publisher's
Marketing: "Past horrors and evil lurk in
Colorado's Overlook Hotel, threatening winter season
caretakers Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their
young son, Danny. Gifted with "the shining",
a clairvoyant Danny must battle the darkest evil in
the remote hotel in an attempt to save his family from
its influence." |
 Salem's
Lot - Publisher's
Marketing: "This repackaged edition of one
of King's early classics revolves around the town of
Jerusalem's Lot, a town that knows darkness--the heavy
silence of terrifying images dancing in and out of the
shadows; the stark white faces, huge empty eyes, and
long gnarled hands that reach out with lustful insistence;
and the paralyzing fear of a hideous peril more dreadful
than death." |
 Cujo
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Stephen King puts nerve-tearing teeth into the
terror of man's best friend turning into the ultimate
beast.
With this warning, prepare to meet Cujo, a friendly,
playful 200-pound Saint Bernard who chases a rabbit
into an underground cavern.
When he emerges from the darkness, he is something
else. Something that the men, women, and children
of Castle rock, Maine, do not suspect. Until is too
late. Until the fever of fear rises and spreads. Until
no one is safe, and no one can escape the insatiable
slavering evil padding on four paws from victim to
victim." |
 Dolores
Claiborne - Publisher's
Marketing: "Folks on Little Tall Island
have been waiting 30 years to find out what happened
the day Dolores Claiborne's husband Joe died--but the
police want to know what happened yesterday, when Dolores's
long-time employer died suddenly in her care. Features
a brand-new foreword by the author." |
 The
Dead Zone - Publisher's
Marketing: "John Smith awakens from an interminable
coma with an accursed power-the power to see the future
and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in...the dead
zone." |
 The
Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to
the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers
all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping
a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's
electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen
his share of oddities in his years working the Mile.
But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with
the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned
for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking
in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution,
Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous
truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his
most cherished beliefs...and yours." |
 Firestarter
- Publisher's
Marketing: "Young Charlie McGee is a very
special girl. The result of scientific experimentation
on her parents, she has the ability create fires wherever
and whenever she chooses, by force of will alone. On
the run from sinister government agents with her telekenetic
father, she only wants to forget her monstrous abilities,
and live a normal life. When the pair are captured,
Charlie must decide between saving her father and using
her fiery powers at the whim of a government only interested
in using her...as a weapon!" |
 Thinner
- Publisher's
Marketing: "Six weeks after an old gypsy
man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter,
he's ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified-and
desperate enough for one last gamble that will lead
him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil
that are melting his flesh away." |
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