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One of James Patterson's Best-loved heroines is about to die.

Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she fines three people dad. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found-and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.

Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the likker. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders- and why they are intent on killing someone every three days.
WHICH ONE WILL IT BE?

Alex Cross is on the hunt for his life...in Washington, D.C., top plastic surgeon Elijah Creem is renowned for his operating skills-and his wild parties of drugs, champagne and illicit sex. When Detective Alex Cross busts one of Creem's soirees, the doctor takes the most drastic step to avoid prison. Before Alex can finish this case, a beautiful woman is murdered with a lock of her hair viciously ripped off. Then a second woman is found, hanging from a window with a brutal scar slashed across her stomach. After a third mutilated body is discovered, rumors of three serial killers on the loose send the city into an all-out frenzy. But under intense pressure to solve all these grim cases, the detective doesn't notice that someone very obsessed and twisted is stalking him- and won't stop until Alex is dead.

Even the most diehard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "blockade Billy" Blakely. He may not have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first-and only- player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history.
very effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, will be able to reveal the truth to the world once and for all.

In his final hours in office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six months hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.

Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive-there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard.As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative reporter Ted Eddings is found.
Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim, Scarpetta orders the crime scene roped off and left alone until she arrives. What was he doing there, searching for Civil War relics as the officer suggested, or was there a bigger story? As she rifles through the multitude of clues, a second murder hits much closer to home. This new development puts Scarpetta and her colleagues hot on the trail of a military conspiracy.

For two families, it was supposed to be a relaxing camping trip in the California mountains. They thought it would be fun to get away from everything for a while. But they're not alone. The woods are also home to two terrifying residents who don't take kindly to strangers- an old hag with unholy powers, and her hulking son, a half-wild brute with uncontrollable, violent urges. The campers still need to get away-but now their lives depend on it!

Off the coast of Brazil, a team of scientists discovers an island where all life has been eradicated by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery, a mysterious agency attacks the group, killing them all save one: an expert on venomous creatures, Professor Ken Matsui.

This inexplicable threat traces back to the terrifying century-old secret buried beneath the National Mall: a cache of bones preserved in amber that was hidden by a cable of scientists-led by Alexander Graham Bell-to protect humankind. The object also holds an astonishing promise for a future: the very secret of life after death
Now an ancient horror-dormant in the marrow of those preserved bones- is free once more, nursed and developed into a weapon of incalculable strength and malignancy, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world. Commander Grayson Pierce will be forced to make an impossible choice. To eradicate this extinction-level threat and expose those involved, he will have to join forces with… Read More

Inspired by books like E. Nesbit's Shakespeare Stories and BBC's The Musketeers, S.G.D. Singh's Dracula Retold takes Bram Stoker's captivating tale of an un-dead count and those brave enough to challenge him, and brings it into the twenty-first century.

Discover the world's favorite vampire, whose fame has endured for more than a century and influenced countless films, novels, and art across the globe-or rediscover a favorite classic, and fall under the spell of this mesmerizing adventure all over again.

A young lawyer travels to Transylvania where he begins to doubt his own sanity and unwittingly helps to unleash an ancient evil across the sea and onto the teeming streets of London. A beloved and beautiful woman suffers from a puzzling illness, her blood mysteriously drained with each passing day. And a group of improbable heroes gather to hunt a vampire. But can they destroy the creature before it's too late for us all?

The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade.

"Riding the Bullet," published here on paper for the first time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maitre d' gets out of sorts. "1408" the audio story to print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is "ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "ten Nights in Then Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at the dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore. And in "that feeling, you… Read More

Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case-but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida.

A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to it's gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled his aunt's death an unfortunate, tragic accident. But just before she died, she mailed a letter to Puller's father, telling him that beneath it's beautiful veneer, Paradise is not all it seems to be.

What Puller finds convinces him that his aunt's death was no accident and that the palm trees and sandy beaches of Paradise may hide a conspiracy so shocking that some will go to unthinkable lengths to make sure the truth is never revealed.

A collection of short stories.

"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. At ten o'clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother's Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox Batting practice jersey (the one with the 36 Gordon on the back) and playing with Mona, her doll. At ten thirty she was lost in the woods. By eleven she was trying not to be terrified, trying not to let herself think, This is serious, this is very serious. Trying not to think that sometimes when people get lost in the woods they got seriously hurt. Sometimes they died."

22 short stories of dark humor, supernatural adventures.

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't cill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.

Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is bought into the case- and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, where do you go when there is nowhere left.

The most advanced aircraft ever designed, vanished into thin air...
A deadly paylord of catastrophic consequence...
An international scramble to be the first to claim it...

Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark--the man who conducts the secret operational missions that Jack Ryan can't be a part of--faces his greatest fear with Rainbow Six: a group of terrorists so extreme that its success could literally mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.

It comes from the mind of Stephen King...!

When the lights are on, he's a mild-mannered, #1 worldwide bestselling author. Wen the lights go down, he watches his creations come to shattering, electrifying LIFE!! (cue horror movie music)... experience of seeing his works of short fiction adapted for major Hollywood films has created stories of its own, and he shares them here- five of his celebrated short stories, plus King's paranormal commentary, his all-new introductions, and essential, behind-the-screen insights.

JUST KEEPTELLING YOURSELF "IT'S ONLY A MOVIE...AND A GREAT TALE BY STEPHEN KING!"

The Shawshank Redemptions (based on the novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption")

1409
(the box office smash starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson)

Children of the Corn
(the original and the best)

The Mangler
(what can we say-it's the mangler a demonic laundry machine!)

Hearts in Atlantis
(based on "low Men in Yellow Coats")

When a fellow agent's plane goes down deep in the Appalachain Mountains, FBI agents Savich and Sherlock find the pilot and his passenger alive. But that's just the begining of the case that plummets them into a whirlwind of vicious murder attempts, powerful suspects, politcal secrets, and escalating terror….

The vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me.It begins in Miami, in the year 1990, and I really want to start right there. But it's important I tell you about the dreams I'd been having before that time, for they are very much a part of the tale too. I'm talking now about dreams about a child vampire with a women's mind and an angel's face, and a dream of my moral friend David Talbot.

There were dreams also of my mortal boyhood in France-of winter snows, my father's bleak and ruined castle of Auvergene, and the time I went out to hunt a pack of wolves that were preying upon our poor village.

Dreams can be as real as events. Or so it seemed to me afterwards...