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Inferno

In the heart of Italy, Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces — Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle. By the author of The Da Vinci Code.NPR Bestseller

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• Dan Brown: 'Inferno' Is 'The Book That I Would Want To Read'
• Book News: Translators Of Dan Brown Novel Toiled In 'Bunker'

A Delicate Truth

Three years after the launch of a delicate counterterrorism operation organized to capture a high-value jihadist arms buyer, a disgraced Special Forces solider delivers a message that raises questions about the operation's success and a possible coverup.NPR Bestseller

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• How To Put This 'Delicate'-ly ... Not Le Carre's Best Work

Life After Life

The award-winning author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum follows the experiences of a woman who, after being born on a snowy night in 1910, repeatedly dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and, ultimately, save the world.NPR Bestseller

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• In 'Life After Life,' Caught In The Dangerous Machinery of History
• 'Life After Life,' The Many Deaths And Do-Overs Of Ursula Todd
• Exclusive First Read: Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life'

Gone Girl

After a woman disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage. Her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.NPR Bestseller

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• In 2012's Best Mysteries, Mean Girls Rule
• Want A Winner? These Books Made The Critics' Cut
• Sail Into Summer With Novel Picks From Alan Cheuse

Maya's Notebook

After the death of her beloved grandfather, 19-year-old Maya Vidal turns to drugs, alcohol and petty crimes. She becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Translated by Anne McLean.NPR Bestseller

News and Reviews

• False Notes In Allende's Dear-Diary 'Notebook'

Little Green

An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Surviving a near-fatal car wreck and cruising the streets of the Sunset Strip during the heyday of the late 1960s, Easy Rawlins investigates the disappearance of a young African-American, a case that is complicated by Rawlins's changing perspectives. By the O. Henry Award-winning author of the Socrates Fortlow series.

News and Reviews

• Easy Rawlins Is Alive, Or Is He?
• Exclusive First Read: Walter Mosley's 'Little Green'

Live By Night

During Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict, law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime. Starting as a petty thief in Boston, he travels south and eventually becomes the Gulf Coast's most successful rumrunner. In Tampa, Fla., and in Cuba, he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.NPR Bestseller, Literary Award Winner

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• May 13-19: A Rumrunner, A Swashbuckler And A Team Of Spies
• Details Weigh Down The Drama In 'Live By Night'
• Boozy Birth Of The American Mafia In Lehane's Latest

The Orphan Master's Son

A Novel

Pak Jun Do, the son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.NPR Bestseller

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• New In Paperback Aug. 6-12
• Novels For The Science-Attuned Brain
• Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Dictators

Broken Harbor

In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.NPR Bestseller

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• In 2012's Best Mysteries, Mean Girls Rule
• Haunting Memories, Elaborate Plotting In 'Harbor'
• A Moody Tale Of Murder In A 'Broken' Dublin Suburb

Istanbul Passage

The big war is over, and the Cold War has just begun. Leon Bauer, an American tobacco man, and his wife, Anna, a German Jew, made it to Istanbul just before World War II began. His U.S. passport and fluency in German and Turkish made him useful to Allied intelligence. But before he assumes a more peaceful life, Bauer is given a last big job — slip Alexi, a Romanian defector with important Soviet secrets, out of Istanbul. Alexi's secrets might help old allies — but the defector once helped massacre Jews in Romania. Bauer is being asked to help a man in this new war who represents what he fought in the last one.NPR Bestseller

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• 'Istanbul': A Twisted Tale Of Foreign Espionage

Every Contact Leaves A Trace

A grieving lawyer returns to Oxford in an attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding his wife's murder and discovers her involvement in a tangled web of blackmail, sex, jealousy and the poems of Robert Browning.

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• Postgraduate Post-Mortem In A Smart, Literary Mystery

State Of Fear

An eco-thriller takes readers to such far-flung locales as Paris, Iceland, Antarctica, and the Solomon Islands.

News and Reviews

• So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre?

The Missing File

When sixteen-year-old Ofer Sharabi goes missing while on his way to school, detective Avraham Avraham finds his crime-solving theories tested when his investigation leads him to question all he believes about guilt and innocence.

News and Reviews

• The Trustful Detective: A Q&A With An Israeli Crime Novelist