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Just as Alex Cross prepares to leave the police force, his partner John Sampson asks for help: an Army buddy is on death row for murders he didn't commit. Their investigation uncovers a trio of killers operating inside the military and a conspiracy that reaches the highest ranks.

James Clavell's sweeping Asian Saga novel set in 1862 Japan. As Western traders cling to their foothold at Yokohama, the 'gai-jin' (foreigners) are caught in a web of intrigue, violence, and culture clash amid the dying days of the samurai and the birth of modern Japan — an epic of commerce, power, and East meeting West.

Three thousand five hundred years after the events of Children of Dune, Leto II — now half-human, half-sandworm — rules as God Emperor. He has seen all possible human futures and chosen the only path that ensures humanity's survival: a brutal peace that will ultimately shatter into the Scattering. The most philosophical and challenging book in the Dune series.

Bride, a beautiful dark-skinned young woman who has turned her blackness into a brand and a career asset, confronts her traumatic childhood—and the lie she told as a child that sent an innocent woman to prison—when her boyfriend suddenly vanishes. Morrison's final novel, set in contemporary California.

A Russian national is shot dead on the shore of Lake Superior, his body riddled with old Soviet-era bullets. The killing pulls Lucas Davenport into a Cold War mystery that never quite ended, and into an uneasy partnership with a sharp Russian investigator as he hunts a secret that has been hidden for decades.

When Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered, his birthday celebration turns into a personal manhunt that leads to a secret club where Washington's most powerful indulge their darkest appetites — a trail that climbs toward the very highest levels of government.

When a fellow investigator dies suddenly, Kinsey Millhone inherits his unfinished case: building the civil suit against David Barney, a man acquitted of murdering his wealthy wife six years ago. As Kinsey reconstructs the old crime, she must decide whether Barney is a killer who beat the system — or an innocent man twice accused.

A small Colombian town is disturbed by anonymous pamphlets—lampoons—that appear overnight on doors and walls, revealing private scandals. As the town's mayor tries to suppress them and violence escalates, García Márquez creates his most purely political early novel.

The first Bruce Medway novel, introducing the fixer and sometime investigator who operates in West Africa's underworld of corrupt business, smuggling, and sudden violence. Medway is hired to find a missing German businessman in Benin — a job that quickly becomes far more dangerous than advertised. The first of four West African thrillers that established Robert Wilson's reputation before the Falcón series.

Two wealthy elderly women are bludgeoned to death in their homes, and at first the killings look like random burglaries gone wrong. But Lucas Davenport sees a pattern: someone is murdering rich old women and quietly stripping their homes of valuable antiques, a long con built on the assumption that no one is watching.

The boys of Plumfield are now young adults, facing real-world choices about career, marriage, and moral character, while Jo March has become a famous author and must cope with the peculiar burdens of literary celebrity.

Jude Fawley, a Dorset stonemason, dreams of university and an intellectual life. His marriage, his passion for his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead, and society's refusal to accommodate either his ambitions or his love, grind him down. Hardy's final and darkest novel caused a scandal on publication.

A federal judge known for his charitable work is gunned down alongside his two young sons in his own home. The killing is precise, professional, and baffling — the judge had no obvious enemies. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers dig into a respected man's hidden life to find a motive for the unthinkable.

A portrait painter, after his wife leaves him, retreats to a house in the Odawara mountains once owned by the painter Tomohiko Amada. In the attic he finds a canvas of an obscure Japanese-style painting titled 'Killing Commendatore'. Soon a mysterious bell begins ringing from a sealed pit in the woods, and a faceless figure called the Idea emerges to set the narrator's world in motion. Murakami's most art-focused novel.

A giant squid specimen disappears from the Natural History Museum, and Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is drawn into London's hidden world of apocalyptic cults, squid-worshippers, and magical London underbelly.

Nelson Dyar, a bored New York bank teller, moves to Tangier hoping to escape his life — and descends into a world of currency smugglers, drug dealers, and nihilistic expatriates that ends in catastrophe.

A kind-hearted American boy named Cedric Errol discovers he is the heir to an English earldom, and his natural goodness gradually transforms his crusty grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt.

Newly retired from the LAPD, Harry Bosch can't let go of the one case that haunts him: the unsolved murder of a young woman connected to a violent movie-set robbery. Without a badge, working alone, he reopens the investigation — and discovers that the case reaches into the FBI and the shadow of national security.

An alternative 1980s London where Alan Turing survived and the first synthetic humans have just been manufactured. Charlie buys one — Adam — and shares custody of it with Miranda, his upstairs neighbour. A love triangle and the questions it raises about consciousness and moral status.

A website appears featuring photographs of the children of powerful politicians, surrounded by extremist political rants. It could be protected speech — or a coded call for assassination. Lucas Davenport is quietly assigned to find out who is behind it before the implied threat against a senator's child becomes real.

Written in 1819 but suppressed by Shelley's father and unpublished until 1959, Mathilda is a harrowing gothic novella about a young woman destroyed by her father's incestuous obsession and her subsequent withdrawal into grief. Autobiographical in its emotional truth, it is among the most painfully honest works Shelley ever wrote.

On his ninetieth birthday, a lifelong bachelor and mediocre newspaper columnist in a Colombian port city resolves to give himself the gift of a night with a young virgin. Instead he falls into a chaste, obsessive, late-life love with the sleeping girl he names Delgadina — a love that quietly rewrites the meaning of his long, hollow life.

Seven stories united by a single condition: men who have lost women — through departure, death, separation, or the gradual erosion of connection. A doctor whose wife has had an affair; a man who receives a phone call from the husband of a woman he loved twenty years ago. Murakami's most emotionally concentrated story collection.

Something stirs at Holy Wood, on the Disc's edge, and suddenly everyone wants to make moving pictures. Alchemists, a talking dog, and a star-struck student wizard chase fame on the silver screen — but the magic of the movies is thinning the wall between worlds.