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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) [Mass Market Paperback]

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) [Mass Market Paperback]

Amazon.com Review Barack Obama’s first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention,...
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Digital Fortress: A Thriller (Mass Market Paperback)

Digital Fortress: A Thriller (Mass Market Paperback)

Amazon.com Review In most thrillers, “hardware” consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower...
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The Unquiet: A Thriller (Charlie Parker) (Mass Market Paperback)

The Unquiet: A Thriller (Charlie Parker) (Mass Market Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this scary, cerebral thriller from bestseller Connolly, his fifth to feature world-weary Maine PI Charlie Parker (after 2005’s The Black Angel), Parker is haunted by the ghosts of his wife and daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances that left him...
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First to Kill (Leisure Fiction) (Mass Market Paperback)

First to Kill (Leisure Fiction) (Mass Market Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly Debut author Peterson kicks off a series in fine style with this complex and action-packed conspiracy thriller. Former CIA sniper Nathan McBride, called in to investigate the disappearance of an undercover FBI agent who happens to be the grandson of former FBI director Frank...
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Path of the Assassin: A Thriller (Mass Market Paperback)

Path of the Assassin: A Thriller (Mass Market Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly If Thor’s second international thriller had any more testosterone, it would grow hair. This follow-up to The Lions of Lucerne is loaded with explosions, gunfights, car chases and hairbreadth escapes as Secret Service agent Scot Harvath battles religious extremists and incompetent CIA spooks to...
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Five Patients (Mass Market Paperback)

Five Patients (Mass Market Paperback)

Amazon.com Review Michael Crichton, creator of many a blockbuster, began his writing career while still a student at Harvard Medical School. Though he never practiced medicine, the education was enough to put a gloss of verisimilitude on works like The Andromeda Strain and...
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Cell: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

Cell: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

Amazon.com Review Witness Stephen King’s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror’s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most...
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State of the Union: A Thriller (Mass Market Paperback)

State of the Union: A Thriller (Mass Market Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly Fortunately for America, series hero Scot Harvath (The Lions of Lucerne; Path of the Assassin) possesses almost superhuman abilities and an equal amount of fantastic luck in this blistering, testosterone-fueled espionage thriller. Making use of an innovative plot device, Thor resuscitates that old Cold...
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Jurassic Park (Mass Market Paperback)

Jurassic Park (Mass Market Paperback)

Amazon.com Review Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you’re no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg’s amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more...
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Time to Run (Navy SEALs, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

Time to Run (Navy SEALs, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly The tension starts early and builds throughout the third installment in Melton’s romantic suspense series featuring Navy SEALs. Sara Garret, after living in fear of her hard-as-nails JAG prosecutor husband, decides to flee after he terrorizes their son, Kendal. An acquaintance, SEAL sniper Chase...
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