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The Intercept

When the hijacking of a commercial jet over the Atlantic Ocean is thwarted, iconoclastic New York Police detective Jeremy Fisk — believing that this is more than a simple open-and-shut case of an attempted terrorist act — and his partner Krina Gersten match wits with opponents who are smarter and more agile than any they have ever faced.

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• 'Law & Order' Meets Tom Clancy In Dick Wolf's First Novel

Raylan

After discovering his quarry naked in the bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys, federal marshal Raylan Givens becomes involved in a case regarding the harvesting of organs for sale on the black market.NPR Bestseller

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• Dec. 24-30: A Spy, A Marshal, An Eavesdropper And A Guantanamo First

The Spy Who Jumped Off The Screen

Recruited on a clandestine mission to thwart the transfer of nuclear warheads into rogue hands, covert operative turned A-list movie star Ty Hunter uses all his skills as a spy, soldier, and actor to match wits with an enigmatic billionaire.

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• Dec. 24-30: A Spy, A Marshal, An Eavesdropper And A Guantanamo First
• 'Spy': A Nuclear Caper, With A Nod From Clinton

I Own The Dawn

Determined to prove herself to the members of SOAR, sharpshooter Kee faces an unexpected dilemma when she develops an attraction to the navigation officer, lieutenant Archibald Jeffrey Stevenson II.

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• Romantic Reads From Shakespeare To Steampunk (Heavy On The Steam)

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

The Stonecutter

The mysterious drowning of a little girl threatens to tear apart the resort town of Fjallbacka, as Patrik Hedstrom's investigation begins to uncover dark secrets of past generations.

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• In 2012's Best Mysteries, Mean Girls Rule
• 5 New Mysteries Return To The Scene Of The Crime

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

The Beautiful Mystery

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

When a peaceful monastery in Quebec is shattered by the murder of its renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Surete du Quebec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.NPR Bestseller

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• In 2012's Best Mysteries, Mean Girls Rule

Gaudy Night

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• In 2012's Best Mysteries, Mean Girls Rule

The Round House

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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• Now You're Talking! The Year's Best Book Club Reads
• 'Round House,' 'Forevers' Win National Book Awards
• Hear The 2012 National Book Award Nominees

Sweet Tooth

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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• Delicious Deceit Abounds In McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth'
• Ian McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth' Leaves A Sour Taste
• Ian McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth' Pits Spy Vs. Scribe

The Art Forger

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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• Great Reads In Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best

Alif The Unseen

Forced underground when his ex-lover's new fiancee breaches his computer, putting him and his clients in jeopardy, young Arab-Indian hacker and shielder Alif discovers the secret book of the jinn and uses its insights to enable life-threatening developments in information technology. By the creator of the acclaimed comics Air and Vixen.

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• The Year's Best Science Fiction Crosses Galaxies And Genres

Who Could That Be at This Hour?

Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.

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• Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat
• Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat

Liar & Spy

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 Year's Outstanding 'Backseat' Reads, For Ages 9 To 14

The Orphanmaster

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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• Time Passages: The Year's Best Historical Fiction

Daughters of Eve

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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• Feminism Turns Fatal In A 1970s Classic

The Midnight House

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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• New In Paperback Dec. 3-9
• What We're Reading, March 9-15

The Double Game

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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• Librarian Nancy Pearl's Picks For The Omnivorous Reader