Hardcover Fiction

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#1 THE STORM

Clive Cussler and Graham Brown

In the 10th NUMA Files novel, Kurt Austin and his team battle a plan to change the world’s weather.

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#2 11TH HOUR

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a possible serial killer.

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#3 STOLEN PREY

John Sandford

When a Minnesota family is murdered, the Minneapolis investigator Lucas Davenport believes a Mexican drug gang is involved.

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#4 CALICO JOE

John Grisham

A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both their careers; years later, the pitcher’s son brings them together.

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#5 DEADLOCKED

Charlaine Harris

The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates a murder that has more to do with her than she imagines.

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#6 BRING UP THE BODIES

Hilary Mantel

In this sequel to “Wolf Hall,” Thomas Cromwell conspires against Anne Boleyn, whom Henry VIII has turned against so that he can marry Jane Seymour.

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#7 A BLAZE OF GLORY

Jeff Shaara

A re-creation of the Battle of Shiloh in 1862.

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#8 THE INNOCENT

David Baldacci

A hit man who has become a target of the government rescues a teenage girl whose parents have been murdered.

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#9 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

George R R Martin

After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

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#10 IN ONE PERSON

John Irving

An aspiring writer struggles with his sexuality.

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#11 THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE

Stephen King

A new entry in the Dark Tower epic western-fantasy series; this novel, King says, is “Dark Tower 4.5.”

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#12 CANADA

Richard Ford

A boy takes refuge in Saskatchewan after his parents commit a robbery.

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#13 ISTANBUL PASSAGE

Joseph Kanon

An American expatriate in Istanbul who worked for the Allies during World War II takes on a final postwar assignment.

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#14 HOME

Toni Morrison

A bitter Korean War veteran returns to a segregated America and revisits his small Georgia hometown.

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#15 THE ROAD TO GRACE

Richard Paul Evans

The continuing story of an ad executive who embarks on a walk from Seattle to Key West.

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#16 TANGLE OF NEED

Nalini Singh

A wolf changeling and a SnowDancer, passionately involved with each other, are drawn into a devastating Psy war; a Psy-Changeling novel.

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#17 THE SINS OF THE FATHER

Jeffrey Archer

In the second volume of the Clifton Chronicles, Harry Clifton assumes the identity of a dead fellow sailor.

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#18 ROBERT B. PARKER’S LULLABY

Ace Atkins

Spenser helps a girl investigate her mother’s murder; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.

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#19 THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR

Steve Berry

The daughter of a disgraced journalist is held by a man who wants to force her father to help him discover a secret left by Columbus.

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#20 THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE

Adriana Trigiani

Childhood sweethearts in turn-of-the-20th-century Italy meet again in America.

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