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Liar & Spy

Liar & Spy

by Rebecca Stead

Hardcover, 180 pages, Wendy Lamb Books, $15.99, published August 7 2012 | purchase
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Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.

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The Orphanmaster

The Orphanmaster

by Jean Zimmerman

Hardcover, 418 pages, Viking Adult, $27.95, published June 19 2012 | purchase
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In seventeenth-century New Amsterdam, twenty-two-year-old trader Blandine von Couvering and British spy Edward Drummond investigate the mysterious disappearance of orphan children.

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Daughters of Eve

Daughters of Eve

by Lois Duncan

Paperback, 288 pages, Little Brown & Co, $7.99, published October 3 2011 | purchase
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As the club sponsor for the Daughters of Eve at Modesta High, Irene Stark, a popular and dedicated teacher, uses feminist philosophy to manipulate the girls' lives in a bizarre plan to avenge past injustices.

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The Midnight House

The Midnight House

by Alex Berenson

Paperback, 481 pages, Jove, $9.99, published January 25 2011 | purchase
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  • Alex Berenson

Summoned to Langley in the aftermath of two murders, CIA agent John Wells learns that the victims were part of a secret interrogation team that used brutal methods to break tough jihadis, a case with ties to unexpected places.

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The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

Hardcover, 321 pages, Harper, $27.99, published October 2 2012 | purchase
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When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 13-year-old Joe Coutts sets out with his three friends to find the person who destroyed his family.NPR Bestseller

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Gone Girl

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

Hardcover, 416 pages, Crown Publishing, $25, published June 5 2012 | purchase
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  • Gillian Flynn

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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Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth

by Ian McEwan

Hardcover, 352 pages, Random House Inc, $26.95, published November 13 2012 | purchase
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  • Ian McEwan

Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government.NPR Bestseller

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The Art Forger

The Art Forger

by B.A. Shapiro

Hardcover, 360 pages, Algonquin Books, $23.95, published October 23 2012 | purchase
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An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared 25 years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner — until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery.NPR Bestseller

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The Double Game

The Double Game

by Dan Fesperman

Hardcover, 355 pages, Knopf, $26.95, published August 21 2012 | purchase
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  • Dan Fesperman

Decades after his favorite author confesses that he considered spying for the enemy during the Cold War, former journalist Bill Cage follows a trail of literary bread crumbs through Vienna, Prague and Budapest to discover links between the author, a beautiful woman and the CIA.

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Uncle Silas a Tale of Bartram Haugh

Uncle Silas a Tale of Bartram Haugh

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Paperback, 436 pages, Dover Pubns, $14.95, published June 1 1966 | purchase
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Maud Ruthyn and her father are haunted by premonitions of death during their sojourn in a gloomy old mansion

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Colin Fischer

Colin Fischer

by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz

Hardcover, 228 pages, Penguin Group USA, $17.99, published November 1 2012 | purchase
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  • Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz

The screenplay writers for X-Men: First Class present the story of a boy who taps the investigative talents of a peer with Asperger's syndrome to prove he is innocent of blowing up a birthday cake in the school cafeteria, a case that teaches both boys about the mysterious qualities of human emotions.

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Return of the Thin Man

Return Of The Thin Man

The Original Screen Stories, After The Thin Man, Another Thin Man, "Sequel To The Thin Man"

by Dashiell Hammett

Hardcover, 320 pages, Mysterious Press, $25, published November 6 2012 | purchase
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Return Of The Thin Man presents two previously unpublished novellas featuring Nick and Nora Charles that became the basis for the 1930s films After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man. Edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett.

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The Exorcist

The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

Hardcover, 379 pages, HarperCollins, $25.99, published October 4 2011 | purchase
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  • William Peter Blatty

In D.C. to shoot a film, adored film star Chris MacNeil finds her stay turning into a nightmare when her young daughter, Regan, is possessed by the devil and must endure a brutal exorcism.

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