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The 5th Horsemanby James Patterson, Maxine PaetroISBN 0316154776 (0-316-15477-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 5th Horseman'Book summary:A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did this happen?
This is not the first such case at the hospital. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a devastating turn for the worse.
Accompanied by the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, Yuki Castellano, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer probes deeper into the incidents. Could these cases just be appalling coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives? When someone close to the Women's Murder Club begins to exhibit the same frightening symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe.
It is a wild race against time as Lindsay's investigation reveals a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, Lindsay and the Women's Murder Club hunt for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff. [via] -
The Apprenticeby Tess GerritsenISBN 1587243229 (1-58724-322-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprentice'Book summary:Boston detective Jane Rizzoli hasn't completely recovered from the near-death experience at the hands of a serial killer (The Surgeon) that left her scarred and scared, but that doesn't keep her from going after a copycat murderer whose modus operandi is disturbingly familiar. Warren Hoyt may still be behind bars, but Jane thinks there's a connection between him and the man the police call the Dominator, based on the way this new fiend subdues and violates his victims before he kills them. Political interference from an FBI agent who seems to know more about the Dominator than anyone else only intensifies Jane's determination to solve the case. When Hoyt escapes from prison and teams up with his blood brother to take revenge on the policewoman who put him there, the pace of this truly frightening thriller picks up and drives the narrative to its violent conclusion. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Aquitaine Progressionby Robert LudlumISBN 0394536746 (0-394-53674-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aquitaine Progression'Book summary:It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn't seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "THE GENERALS...THEY'RE BACK...AQUITAINE!" Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world's most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he'd long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to the hear of every major government a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine. From the Paperback edition. [via]
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Bad Loveby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345460723 (0-345-46072-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Beach Houseby James Patterson, Peter De JongeISBN 0316733741 (0-316-73374-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beach House'Book summary:James Patterson and Peter de Jonge's The Beach House opens with the death of a handsome townie on Memorial Day weekend in the Hamptons, where being a single-digit millionaire is laughable and being poor is unthinkable. Peter Mullen is a high-school dropout who parks cars at the private bashes of the superwealthy Barry and Campion Neubauer. When Peter is found dead on the beach, the Neubauers and their friends insist that he drowned; but his brother Jack, a law student who saw his brother's body, knows Peter was beaten to death. As Jack uncovers evidence of his brother's secret life, he begins to realize that the very rich are indeed different from the rest of us. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and Jack's patiently plotted payback for Peter's death is one that the Hamptons will not soon forget.
There are no big surprises in The Beach House, but it's vintage Patterson, with plenty of action, villains with hearts blacker than obsidian, and a working-class hero who pulls himself up by the bootstraps. Patterson and de Jonge previously coauthored the inspirational golf romance Miracle on the 17th Green, but this new game of money, mayhem, and murder clearly suits them to a tee. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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Birthrightby Nora RobertsISBN 1594130264 (1-59413-026-4)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birthright'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
On a hot July afternoon, a worker at an Antietam Creek construction site drives the blade of his backhoe into a layer of soil and strikes a 5,000-year-old human skull. The discovery draws a lot of attention and more controversy. It also changes Callie Dunbrook's life in ways she never expected. As an archaeologist, Callie knows a lot about the past -- but her own past is about to be called into question. Recruited for her expertise on the Antietam Creek dig, she encounters danger as death and misfortune haunt the project, and rumors fly that the site is cursed. Joining forces in her work with her irritating but irresistible ex-husband Jake, she finds a passion that feels equally dangerous. [via]
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Black Noticeby Patricia CornwellISBN 0425175227 (0-425-17522-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Notice'Book summary:It's Christmastime in Richmond, Virginia, but no one seems merry--least of all Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, back for her 10th outing as a crime-solving coroner. Actress Kate Reading also returns, reading her third unabridged audio for Patricia Cornwell's death-drenched series. This one finds Scarpetta still recovering from the murder of her lover and in a generally foul mood as an investigation of a badly decomposed body leads her to INTERPOL, and eventually, Paris. Series regulars Police Detective Pete Marino, recently demoted, and niece Lucy are in equally cantankerous states of mind, resulting in more blue language than Cornwell regulars may be used to. Reading proves she's up to the task, maintaining multiple distinct voices and highlighting the occasional humor in the overwhelmingly dark novel. A London-based stage actress, she captivates the listener without careening into melodrama. (Running time: 12.5 hours, 8 cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Black Notice: ISBN 0316646385 (0-316-64638-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co - Black Notice: ISBN 0375707719 (0-375-70771-9)
Softcover, Random House Large Print - Black Notice: ISBN 0375408452 (0-375-40845-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Black Notice: ISBN 0399145087 (0-399-14508-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Black Notice: ISBN 0399145222 (0-399-14522-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Black Notice: ISBN 0425175227 (0-425-17522-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
- Black Notice: ISBN 0425175405 (0-425-17540-5)
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Cat & Mouseby James PattersonISBN 0316693294 (0-316-69329-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat & Mouse'Book summary:That monstrous villain Gary Soneji is back in Cat & Mouse, the fourth book in James Patterson's series about Alex Cross, a police forensic psychologist, but he's not alone. In seeming support of the premise that you can never have too much of a bad thing, Patterson has thrown a second serial killer into the mix: Mr. Smith, a mysterious killer terrorizing Europe while Soneji practices his own brand of evil along the Eastern Seaboard. With two killers to track, Cross has his hands full--and Patterson has another hit. [via]
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Ceremony in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0425157628 (0-425-15762-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ceremony in Death'Book summary:Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong--and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil...[via]More editions of Ceremony in Death:
The Chancellor Manuscriptby Robert LudlumISBN 0385272537 (0-385-27253-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Charm Schoolby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446353205 (0-446-35320-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Charm School'Book summary:#1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia.On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast and astounding KGB conspiracy that stands poised against the very heartland of America. Arrayed against this renegade power of the Soviet state are three Americans: an Air Force officer, who will fly one last covert mission into the center of a mad experiment; an embassy liaison, who will have her hopes for a saner superpower balance brutally tested; and the chief of the CIA's Moscow station, who will find his intricate dance of destiny and death reaching its devastating conclusion. [via]
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The Club Dumasby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 8420481025 (84-204-8102-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Club Dumas'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican; from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.
Description in Spanish: Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capítulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletín decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el título "La novena puerta". [via]
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The Collectorby John FowlesISBN 0316290238 (0-316-29023-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collector'Book summary:Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry--remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize.[via] -
Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.
This edition includes the following stories:
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
Berenice
Bon-Bon
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent Into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
The Domain of Arnheim
Duc De L'Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of the Usher
Four Beasts in One
The Gold-Bug
Hop Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Landscape Garden
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
Predicament
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow -- A Parable
Silence -- A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell Tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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Corazones En La Atlantida / Hearts in Atlantisby Stephen KingISBN 9871138504 (987-1138-50-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Darkfall: Library Editionby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425104346 (0-425-10434-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkfall: Library Edition'Book summary:Terror strikes a snowbound town when four hideously disfigured corpses are discovered over the course of four days. Reissue. PW. [via]
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Day of the Jackalby Frederick ForsythISBN 0091073901 (0-09-107390-1)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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El Club Dumasby Perez ReverteISBN 9681903862 (968-19-0386-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dumas'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican; from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.
Description in Spanish: Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capítulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletín decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el título "La novena puerta". [via]
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El secreto de la noche / Daddy's Little Girlby Mary Higgins Clark, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 8497932471 (84-9793-247-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El Tercer Gemeloby Ken FollettISBN 9700508927 (970-05-0892-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Tercer Gemelo'Book summary:Una de las mas vibrantes e imaginativas obras de quien quiza sea el escritor mas leido de la actualidad. Con una trama de la investigacion genetica, unos personajes perfilados y un ritmo trepidante, esta novel esta concebida sencillamente para apasionar. [via]
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Eye of the Needleby Ken FollettISBN 006074815X (0-06-074815-X)
Softcover, Dark Alley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the Needle'Book summary:One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle" -- who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory.
Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
All will come to a terrifying conclusion in Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heart.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. [via]More editions of Eye of the Needle:
From Potter's Fieldby Patricia CornwellISBN 0425154092 (0-425-15409-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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From Potter's Fieldby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0425204693 (0-425-20469-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Potter's Field'Book summary:Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Kay Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Gault, a bold and brilliant killer from her past. Now she must hunt down a psychopath whose string of horrible murders is leading inexorably to his ultimate prey: Scarpetta herself. Even with the help of the FBI, Scarpetta knows the endgame is hers alone to play -- and it will be played on Gault's home turf, the subway tunnels beneath New York City. [via]
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Funhouseby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425142485 (0-425-14248-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Gabriel Houndsby Mary StewartISBN 0061145394 (0-06-114539-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gabriel Hounds'Book summary:It's all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harrietdespite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim"Lady Harriet's" ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanonwhere a physician is always in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old woman's every need.
But there is a very goodvery sinisterreason why guests are not welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it may prove even harder still to escape . . .
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The Icarus Agendaby Robert LudlumISBN 0394543971 (0-394-54397-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Icarus Agenda'Book summary:Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietlywhen a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who once saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come and where Kendrick's lifeand the fate of the free worldmay ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious and deadly figure known only as the Mahdi.
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Isle of Dogsby Patricia CornwellISBN 039914739X (0-399-14739-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Isle of Dogsby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0425182908 (0-425-18290-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isle of Dogs'Book summary:Be aware: this is not your typical Patricia Cornwell novel. Not only is there no Kay Scarpetta, but Isle of Dogs is a comic romp, a real departure for this author. It does center around a couple of characters from past books--police chief Judy Hammer and reporter-turned-cop Andy Brazil of Hornet's Nest and Southern Cross. But the plot, style, and tone will remind you more of Carl Hiaasen's dark comedies.
The madcap doings get underway when the addled, nearly blind governor of Virginia confusedly launches a speed-trap program on isolated Tangier Island, whose prickly, eccentric residents promptly attempt secession. Cornwell adeptly interweaves other crisscrossing plot lines involving a gang of street-stupid thugs gunning for Hammer and Brazil, an angel-faced serial killer, a kidnapped dog, and more. She does miss a few beats: the pacing sags during certain episodes, and at times the writing strains so hard for laughs that instead it draws winces. Nonetheless, Isle of Dogs is for the most part a funny, diverting read and a refreshing departure for Cornwell. --Nicholas H. Allison [via]
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Judge & Juryby James Patterson, Andrew GrossISBN 0316013935 (0-316-01393-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judge & Jury'Book summary:Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledge comes from a bit part curling around a stripper's pole in The Sopranos. But she still ends up as juror #11 in a landmark trial against a notorious mob boss.
The case quickly becomes the new Trial of the Century. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, known as the Electrician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. He knows Cavello's power reaches far beyond the courtroom, but the FBI's evidence against the ruthless killer is iron-clad. Conviction is a sure thing.
As the jury is about to reach a verdict, the Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have predicted. The entire nation is reeling, and Andie's world is shattered. For her, the hunt for the Electrician becomes personal, and she and Pellisante come together in an unbreakable bond: they will exact justice-at any cost.
James Patterson spins an all-out heart-pounding legal thriller that pits two people against the most vicious and powerful mobster since John Gotti. Judge & Jury is a stunning feat by "one of America's most influential authors" (New York Times). [via]More editions of Judge & Jury:
The Key to Rebeccaby Ken FollettISBN 1568492782 (1-56849-278-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Kill the Messengerby Tami HoagISBN 037543299X (0-375-43299-X)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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The Lion's Gameby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446520659 (0-446-52065-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lion's Game'Book summary:John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims his rage at the infidels. The boy's got such a gift for terrorism he's earned the nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted émigré mentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A pity Boris must die, but hey, he's an infidel too.
Asad pretends to defect, handcuffed to agents aboard a 747 bound for JFK, and he proves to be a worse seatmate than a siding salesman. Corey and his ATTF colleagues (most conspicuously the FBI's sexy Kate Mayfield, Corey's match in badinage and bad-guy busting) strive to halt Asad's methodical yet unpredictable bloodbath. Skillfully, DeMille alternates chapters told from Asad's and Corey's points of view. DeMille did his authenticity homework: when we're not savoring his gift for wiseacre dialogue in the Corey-Kate chapters, we're sweating alongside Asad on his ghastly, ingenious jihad.
The New York Times put DeMille's social satire on a par with Edith Wharton's, and he's great on the colliding folkways of the feuding, mutually doublecrossing crimebuster institutions. Naturally, he's on the side of the regular-guy flatfoots. "Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders," he writes. "Feds sit on their derrieres and peruse their dossiers." And the CIA gets it in the shorts, satirically speaking. One deplores the mass murderers, but the book's real bad guys wear the priciest suits.
DeMille reportedly has a $25 million book contract. With fast, funny, absorbing thrillers like The Lion's Game, he's earned it. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Mind Preyby John SandfordISBN 1568952333 (1-56895-233-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 8478715223 (84-7871-522-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystic River'Book summary:In 1975 three young boys encounter a pair of roving child molesters who pass themselves off as policemen. Two of them escape, but ten-year-old Dave Boyle is not so fortunate and finds himself trapped in a four-day ordeal that changes his life forever. Mys [via]
No Safe Placeby Richard North PattersonISBN 0345404777 (0-345-40477-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Origin in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 042520426X (0-425-20426-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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A Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 0385337930 (0-385-33793-0)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Painted House'Book summary:Ever since he published The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. With A Painted House, however, he strikes out in a new direction. As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. It's harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic dream team. But it's backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-year-old narrator, Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing the fluffy bolls from the stalks at a steady pace, stuffing them into the heavy sack, afraid to look down the row and be reminded of how endless it was, afraid to slow down because someone would notice."
What's more, tensions begin to simmer between the Mexicans and the hill people, one of whom has a penchant for bare-knuckles brawling. This leads to a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to witness. At this point--with secrets, lies, and at least one knife fight in the offing--the plot begins to take on that familiar, Grisham-style momentum. Still, such matters ultimately take a back seat in A Painted House to the author's evocation of time and place. This is, after all, the scene of his boyhood, and Grisham waxes nostalgic without ever succumbing to deep-fried sentimentality. Meanwhile, his account of Luke's Baptist upbringing occasions some sly (and telling) humor:
I'd been taught in Sunday school from the day I could walk that lying would send you straight to hell. No detours. No second chances. Straight into the fiery pit, where Satan was waiting with the likes of Hitler and Judas Iscariot and General Grant. Thou shalt not bear false witness, which, of course, didn't sound exactly like a strict prohibition against lying, but that was the way the Baptists interpreted it.
Whether Grisham will continue along these lines, or revert to the judicial shark tank for his next book, is anybody's guess. But A Painted House suggests that he's perfectly capable of telling an involving story with nary a subpoena in sight. --James Marcus [via]More editions of A Painted House:
- A Painted House: ISBN 044023722X (0-440-23722-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books - A Painted House: ISBN 038550120X (0-385-50120-X)
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The Partnerby John GrishamISBN 0385339100 (0-385-33910-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Partner'Book summary:Literary slugger John Grisham returns with a story about-- surprise!--a lawyer in trouble. Patrick Lanigan had been a young partner in a prominent Southern law firm. He had a beautiful wife, a new baby girl, and a bright future. Then one winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car; the casket they buried held nothing but ashes.
A short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial then fled. A fortune was stolen from his ex-firm's offshore account. And Patrick ran, covering his tracks the whole way.
But, now, they've found him. [via]
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- The Partner: ISBN 0440224764 (0-440-22476-4)
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Softcover, Bantam Books - The Partner: ISBN 0375433546 (0-375-43354-6)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - The Partner: ISBN 0385472951 (0-385-47295-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday - The Partner: ISBN 0385485786 (0-385-48578-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - The Partner: ISBN 0385485921 (0-385-48592-1)
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Point of Originby Patricia CornwellISBN 0425169863 (0-425-16986-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Point of Origin'Book summary:Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: "Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire," it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped send to a psychiatric facility for going on a murder spree with Temple Gault in Cornwell's earlier book Body Farm. Benton believes that Grethen--who also happens to be the former lover of Scarpetta's niece Lucy--has big plans for a comeback. And before Kay and Benton can leave for their trip and discuss it further, Scarpetta is called upon to don yet another professional hat, that of a "consulting forensic pathologist" for the federal government. Someone has burned a highfalutin horse ranch and all of its contents, including a human being, to the ground. Worse, Grethen has escaped and is on the loose and closer to Kay and her beloved than she knows. Point of Origin, the ninth Scarpetta thriller, is classic Cornwell: rich with detail and strong dialogue, and doused with harrowing twists. [via]
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- Point of Origin: ISBN 0425170780 (0-425-17078-0)
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Prodigal Sonby Dean Koontz, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0375434704 (0-375-43470-4)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Son'Book summary:From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of&
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Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist whos traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson OConnor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itselfand that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense OConnor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are moreand lessthan human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isnt merely a homicidal maniacbut his deranged maker.
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The Ruinsby Scott SmithISBN 030727828X (0-307-27828-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ruins'Book summary:First Vintage books mass market edition, August 2007. English fiction. They met Mathias on a day trip to Cozumel. They'd hired a guide to take them snorkeling over a local wreck. [via]
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Saving Faithby David BaldacciISBN 0375408665 (0-375-40866-5)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Servants Of Twilightby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425121259 (0-425-12125-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Servants Of Twilight'Book summary:Christine Scavello's life is transformed into a nightmare when her son becomes the target of a group of religious fanatics who claim that the child is the Antichrist and will stop at nothing in their efforts to destroy him. Reissue. [via]
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Shadowfiresby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425136981 (0-425-13698-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Shadowfiresby Leigh NicholsISBN 0380752166 (0-380-75216-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Shatteredby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425099334 (0-425-09933-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shattered'Book summary:As Alex and Colin speed toward their new home in San Francisco where Courtney awaits them, they are pursued by a madman who is also eager to see Courtney. [via]
Shatteredby K. R. DwyerISBN 0394485297 (0-394-48529-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Terminal Manby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060092572 (0-06-009257-2)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Terminal Man'Book summary:Harry has a problem. Ever since getting in a car accident, he's suffered from "thought seizures," violent fits in which he attacks other people. He used to be an artificial intelligence researcher, which may explain why he targets anyone who either works on machines or who acts like a machine--mechanics, gas-station attendants, prostitutes, exotic dancers. But there's hope: he can become part machine himself, undergoing "Stage 3," an experimental procedure implanting 40 electrodes deep in the pleasure centers of his brain. The surgery is successful, and blissful pulses of electricity short-circuit Harry's seizures. That is, until Harry figures out how to overload himself with the satisfying jolts and escapes on a murderous rampage. One of Crichton's earliest, playing ably on '70s fears of computers and mind control. --Paul Hughes [via]
Threeby Ted DekkerISBN 1595541837 (1-59554-183-7)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three'Book summary:The award-winning, best-selling suspense masterwork, now a major motion picture event.
Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy.
Kevin Parson is alone in his car when his cell phone rings. A man calling himself Slater offers a deadly ultimatum: You have exactly three minutes to confess your sin to the world. Refuse, and the car you're driving will blow sky high. Then the phone goes dead.
Kevin panics. Who would make such a demand? What sin? Yet not sure what else to do, Kevin swerves into a parking lot and runs from his car. Just in case.
Precisely three minutes later, a massive explosion sets his world on a collision course with madness. And that's only the first move in this deadly game.
From the #1 best-selling fiction author comes a powerful story of good, evil, and all that lies between.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0340188790 (0-340-18879-0)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'Book summary:The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow Centre mole burrowed thirty years deep into the Circus itself. [via]
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Visionby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425098605 (0-425-09860-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140071075 (0-14-007107-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'Book summary:Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely proffering a plate of rum cakes, fresh from the poisoner's kitchen. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, is full of a macabre and sinister humor, and Merricat herself, its amiable narrator, is one of the great unhinged heroines of literature. "What place would be better for us than this?" she asks, of the neat, secluded realm she shares with her uncle and with her beloved older sister, Constance. "Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic, burying talismanic objects beneath the family estate, nailing them to trees, ritually revisiting them. She has made "a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us" against the distrust and hostility of neighboring villagers.
Or so she believes. But at last the magic fails. A stranger arrives--cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune. He disturbs the sisters' careful habits, installing himself at the head of the family table, unearthing Merricat's treasures, talking privately to Constance about "normal lives" and "boy friends." Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods. The result is crisis and tragedy, the revelation of a terrible secret, the convergence of the villagers upon the house, and a spectacular unleashing of collective spite.
The sisters are propelled further into seclusion and solipsism, abandoning "time and the orderly pattern of our old days" in favor of an ever-narrowing circuit of ritual and shadow. They have themselves become talismans, to be alternately demonized and propitiated, darkly, with gifts. Jackson's novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more--like some of her other fictions--as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normality itself. "Poor strangers," says Merricat contentedly at last, studying trespassers from the darkness behind the barricaded Blackwood windows. "They have so much to be afraid of." --Sarah Waters [via]
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El Club Dumasby Arturo Pérez-ReverteISBN 8495501007 (84-95501-00-7)
Hardcover, Suma de Letras, S.L.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dumas'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican; from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.
Description in Spanish: Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capítulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletín decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el título "La novena puerta". [via]
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El Club Dumas/the Club Dumas: O Lasombra De Richelieuby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 8466318313 (84-663-1831-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dumas/the Club Dumas: O Lasombra De Richelieu'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophile mercenary in the middle of two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned at the printers in 1667 by the Holy office and condemned by the Vatican; only two other copies are known. The stories intermingle and result in a page-turning thriller distinctive of Perez Reverte s writing. The book was taken to the big screen in a movie titled The Ninth Gate by renowned director Roman Polanski.
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Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que solo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtio para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capitulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Perez-Reverte. [via]
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Eso / Itby Stephen King, Edith ZilliISBN 8401474639 (84-01-47463-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Insomnia/ Insomniaby Stephen KingISBN 8497597729 (84-9759-772-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Ordenes Ejecutivas IIby Tom ClancyISBN 8408024493 (84-08-02449-3)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Panico Nuclearby Tom ClancyISBN 8401491509 (84-01-49150-9)
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El Tercer Gemeloby Ken FollettISBN 843970240X (84-397-0240-X)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc
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Todo Es Eventual / Everything's Eventualby Stephen KingISBN 030727375X (0-307-27375-X)
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