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22 Seconds

by James Patterson

3.7

Guns are flowing north across the border and San Francisco cops are turning up dead, the two facts tangled in a conspiracy bigger than anything Lindsay Boxer has faced. As the body count rises and the danger reaches her own circle, Lindsay races to expose a network that wants her silenced.

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A Lion Among Men

by Gregory Maguire

3.7

The Cowardly Lion — here called Brrr — tells his life story to the oracle Yackle, revealing a history of cowardice, survival, and self-deception that reframes the familiar character as a study in moral failure and its long consequences.

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Alert

by James Patterson

3.7

New York is reeling from a series of escalating, high-tech terror attacks, and no one can predict where the next blow will fall. As the city teeters on the edge of panic, Michael Bennett races against a sophisticated enemy who seems always one step ahead — and whose endgame could be catastrophic.

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Alex Cross, Run

by James Patterson

3.7

Alex Cross is hunting multiple killers at once — a meticulous murderer of beautiful women, a savage 'beating' killer, and a vengeful plastic surgeon Cross once arrested. As the cases multiply, Cross finds himself the target, framed and pursued, with his name and freedom suddenly on the line.

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Ambush

by James Patterson

3.7

A tip leads to a trap, and a detective dies in Michael Bennett's place. Someone has marked Bennett for death, and as the attempts on his life escalate and reach toward his children, he must find the enemy hunting his family before the next ambush succeeds.

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Amsterdam

by Ian McEwan

3.7

Two old friends — a composer and a newspaper editor — make a mutual euthanasia pact at the funeral of their shared former lover. When each betrays his professional principles in ways the other finds unconscionable, dark comedy escalates toward catastrophic irony.

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Authority

by Jeff VanderMeer

3.7

The new director of the Southern Reach — the agency that monitors Area X — inherits a dysfunctional organisation, a returned Biologist who cannot remember her expedition, and the dawning realisation that the border between Area X and the outside world may not be where anyone thought.

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Blindside

by James Patterson

3.7

The mayor of New York makes Michael Bennett an offer he can't refuse: find the mayor's missing daughter, and the city will go easy on Bennett's own son, who is in serious trouble of his own. But the search pulls Bennett into a dangerous web of cybercrime and foreign intrigue with stakes far beyond one missing girl.

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Bullseye

by James Patterson

3.7

An assassin is in New York with the most audacious target imaginable: the President of the United States, in the city for a high-stakes summit. As world leaders gather and tensions with Russia simmer, Michael Bennett has only days to find a killer before an assassination triggers global catastrophe.

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Chasing the Dime

by Michael Connelly

3.7

Scientist Henry Pierce gets a new phone number and starts receiving calls for a woman named Lilly — an escort who seems to have vanished. Unable to let it go, Pierce begins investigating her disappearance, and his obsessive curiosity drags him out of his ordered world and into a dangerous one that does not want to be examined.

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Children of the Mind

by Orson Scott Card

3.7

The fourth book in the Ender saga, picking up immediately from Xenocide. As a fleet approaches to destroy Lusitania and the AI Jane faces deletion, Ender, his family, and the worlds' three sentient species race to prevent catastrophe — and to save Jane's life.

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Criss Cross

by James Patterson

3.7

After Alex Cross watches a killer he helped convict go to his execution, a new murder appears bearing the dead man's signature — and a taunting note signed simply 'M.' As the killings mount and grow personal, Cross must wonder whether he sent an innocent man to die, or whether something far more cunning is at work.

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Cross Down

by James Patterson

3.7

Alex Cross is gravely wounded and out of action, leaving John Sampson to carry the weight. As a coordinated wave of attacks threatens the capital and the people Cross loves, Sampson must protect his oldest friend, hold the line, and stop a conspiracy — all without the partner who has always had his back.

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Deadly Cross

by James Patterson

3.7

A glamorous Washington socialite and a private-school headmaster are found shot dead in a car outside a gala, their secret connection a mystery. Alex Cross knew the dead woman — and as he investigates her hidden life, the case pulls him into a web of power, money, and old secrets that someone will kill to protect.

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Defy Me

by Tahereh Mafi

3.7

The fifth Shatter Me novel. Reeling from the events of Restore Me, Juliette — now Ella — confronts shattering revelations about her past, her family, and the Reestablishment, as the perspective widens and the series barrels toward its climax.

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Gone

by James Patterson

3.7

In witness protection on the California coast, Michael Bennett thought distance would keep his family safe from crime lord Manuel Perrine. He was wrong. Perrine's reign of terror reaches across the country, and Bennett must hunt the man who has sworn to destroy everything he loves.

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In Too Deep

by Lee Child

3.7

Jack Reacher wakes up injured, handcuffed to a rail, with no memory of how he got there or who is holding him. With nothing to go on but his own instincts, he must work out who took him, why, and how to turn the tables — before his captors decide he is more trouble alive than dead.

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Into the Water

by Paula Hawkins

3.7

When a single mother turns up dead in a small English town's river — a place with a dark history of women's deaths — her sister arrives to investigate and care for the dead woman's teenage daughter, uncovering secrets that implicate almost everyone.

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Kill Alex Cross

by James Patterson

3.7

The President's two children vanish, and Alex Cross is thrown into a frantic search under impossible pressure. At the same time, a lone operative is moving to poison Washington's water supply — two catastrophes converging on a city, and on a detective who can't be everywhere at once.

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Love Falls

by Esther Freud

3.7

Lara, nineteen, visits her father in Tuscany for the first time — a man she has never really known — and is drawn into his world of artists, expatriates, and complex histories in the Tuscan hills.

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Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

by James Patterson

3.7

It's Christmas Day, and Alex Cross wants nothing more than to spend it with his family. Instead he's called to two crises at once — a desperate man holding his own family hostage, and a terrorist plot poised to strike Washington during the holidays — forcing Cross to choose, again, between his home and his duty.

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Nothing to Lose

by Lee Child

3.7

Walking between two Colorado towns named Hope and Despair, Jack Reacher is run out of Despair the moment he arrives — which only makes him want to know why. The secretive, company-owned town is hiding something behind its locked gates, and Reacher is exactly the wrong man to tell to keep moving.

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Purity

by Jonathan Franzen

3.7

Pip Tyler — twenty-three, broke, searching for her mysterious father — is recruited into a WikiLeaks-style organization run by an enigmatic German idealist. Franzen's fourth novel is his most ambitious in scale and his most contentious, weaving American internet culture with Cold War German history.

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Shattered

by James Patterson

3.7

When Michael Bennett's close friend, FBI agent Emily Parker, vanishes in Washington, D.C., he drops everything to find her. Far from home and outside his jurisdiction, Bennett uncovers that the woman he thought he knew had powerful enemies — and that her disappearance is only the beginning.

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