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Snowbound
by Blake Crouch

When his beloved wife vanishes during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway, Will Innis is wrongly accused of murder and flees with his daughter only to be approached by a hard-edged FBI agent who informs Will that his wife was not the only person who has disappeared.

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Layover in Dubai
by Dan Fesperman

Corporate auditor Sam Keller finds himself surrounded by Dubai's underworld violence in the wake of a colleague's murder and turns for help to unlikely detective Anwar Sharaf, a partnership that tests the dark regions of each man's heart.

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Lucy
by Laurence Gonzales

The result of experimental breeding between a human and ape, 14-year-old Lucy is rescued from the Congo jungle where she has lived exclusively among apes and experiences stunning revelations about herself when she is relocated to a Chicago suburb.

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The island
by Elin Hilderbrand

In this satisfying beach read, divorcée Birdie Cousins encourages her daughters Chess and Tate, and her sister, India, to join her on Tuckernuck Island for a month, a time when deep secrets are soon revealed.

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As husbands go
by Susan Isaacs

Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of 4-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.

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The scarlet contessa
by Jeanne Kalogridis

A skilled reader in fortune-telling cards, Dea, a widowed lady-in-waiting to Caterina Sforza, struggles to unravel the truth about her husband's murder while witnessing her mistress's bold triumphs and receiving a precognitive warning about an invasion by Cesare Borgia.

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Damaged
by Alex Kava

When the Coast Guard finds a murdered body in the Gulf of Mexico while preparing for a Category 5 hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell places herself in the path of the deadly storm to track down the victim's identity and killer.

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Rules of betrayal
by Christopher Reich

Married to an undercover spy who has gone rogue, resourceful doctor Jonathan Ransom is catapulted into the shadowy world of double and triple agents, where his life becomes dependent on his discovery of his wife's true loyalties.

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Still missing
by Chevy Stevens

Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity. She recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.

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Think of a number
by John Verdon

Recently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person's thoughts.

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Red Hook Road
by Ayelet Waldman

Traces the lives of the Tetherly and Copaken families in the aftermath of a child's tragic death, which results in a broken marriage, a bonding between bereaved siblings and healing in the form of an adopted girl's prodigious violin talent.

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Savages
by Don Winslow

Running a lucrative marijuana operation in Laguna Beach, sometime environmentalist Ben and mercenary Chon confront a dangerous adversary in the Mexican Baja cartel, which kidnaps their playmate and confidante Ophelia, compelling the duo to plot ingenious negotiations.

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The strange case of the composer and his judge
by Patricia Duncker

A mass suicide of a secret cult's adherents discovered in a French forest on New Year's Day, laid out in a fan shape in the snow, is at the start of this haunting legal mystery.

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Live to tell
by Lisa Gardner

Investigating the murder of an entire family that initially appears to be a senseless act of violence, Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren uncovers disturbingly personal ties to the case that push her to the edges of her sanity.

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A question of belief
by Donna Leon

Longing to visit the cool mountains with his family during a brutally hot tourist season in Venice, commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to help his inspector friend to safeguard an aunt's savings from an unscrupulous astrologer with ties to a shocking act of violence.

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The invisible gorilla: and other ways our intuitions deceive us
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

Two experts in psychology and human behavior examine misperception and understanding, explaining why people fail to recognize the evidence right in front of them, and providing a kind of x-ray vision that will enable readers to conquer faulty thinking.

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Acts of kindness: inspirational stories for everyday life
edited by Adam Mayers

A collection of two hundred of the most memorable tales since its debut at thestar.com reminding us that goodness is non-denominational, non-political, and transferable across race and language and that the smallest gesture can raise a spirit or lift a heart.

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Broke, USA: from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.: how the working poor became big business
Gary Rivlin

A unique and riveting exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries--the business of poverty.

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Chasing Goldman Sachs: how the masters of the universe melted Wall Street down-- and why they'll take us to the brink again
Suzanne McGee

Journalist Suzanne McGee examines the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating and economy-boosting engine into a behemoth operating with only its own short-term interests in mind and with reckless disregard for the broader financial system.

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Famine and foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid
by Peter Gill

The terrible famine of 1984 focused the world's attention on Ethiopia and the aid issue as never before. Journalist Peter Gill guides the reader through a fascinating story of suffering, resilience and the often misguided formula for aiding the world’s poor.

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Masters of the game: inside the world's most powerful law firm
Kim Eisler

The author takes us behind the scenes into mega law firm Williams & Connolly, guiding us on a journey through the many storied cases that have served to shape current policies in public and private sector alike.

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The O2 diet: the cutting edge antioxidant-based program that will make you healthy, thin, and beautiful
Keri Glassman with Sarah Mahoney

Kick-start weight loss and boost beauty with an easy 4-day cleanse and a delicious 4-week antioxidant-based program from CBS’s The Early Show nutrition contributor.

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Telling times: writing and living, 1954-2008
Nadine Gordimer

The first comprehensive collection of Gordimer's nonfiction. In these pieces of observation, remembrance and literary criticism, Gordimer is precise, unembellished, evocative.

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Deadliest sea : the untold story behind the greatest rescue in Coast Guard history
Kalee Thompson

Veteran journalist Kalee Thompson recounts the harrowing stories of both the rescuers and the rescued who survived the deadly ordeal aboard the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger which sank in the Bering Sea in 2008.

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Beneath the sands of Egypt: adventures of an unconventional archaeologist
Donald P. Ryan

The author offers an intriguing personal account of a career spent researching the remains of Egypt's past—including his headline-making rediscovery of a lost tomb in the Valley of the Kings containing the mummy of the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut.