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When Sassy’s former husband, Carl Adams, turns up not only dead, an apparent suicide, but in possession of photographs of three young girls who were kidnapped and murdered a quarter of a century before, Sassy must deal with her complex past relationship with him, a past that she has tried to suppress but which...
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Based on interviews, press accounts, and confidential police reports from four continents, New York Times journalist Pulitzer (Stolen Innocence) and Thompson (coauthor of the bestselling A Deadly Game) look at the baffling, erratic young Dutchman at the center of two sensational murders: the puzzling 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Natalee Holloway (he was one...
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Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors. Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, The Postmortal is an unforgettable...
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Enter the crime: The horrific murder of a teenager, Jennifer Maidment, is too grisly by half. And yet, it is just the beginning of a spree—a melding of the Internet and perversity and the grooming of innocents who think they are so much mor
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Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time is a page-turner that boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine,...
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Accustomed to a traditional corporate environment, Edwards found himself over his head when he came on board at Google, stymied by the hierarchy-free flat company that boasted about 50 employees (working at desks consisting of large wooden doors mounted on metal sawhorses) whose engine was doing 11 million searches a day, barely a blip...
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Gibson's highly acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling novel is the story of a trend predictor in London who's offered a job to find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet--footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
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So it’s with surprise, even incredulity, that you grasp, as you read Adam Haslett’s first novel, that this book, set chiefly in 2002, not only tucks 9/11 into its narrative in an uncowed, offhand way but, to an extent, leaves it behind.
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Move over Vlad the Impaler. We now have Countess Elizabeth Bathory as our latest new/old monster. As far as horrible histories go, this one can’t get much worse. Countess Elizabeth allegedly first tortured — and then killed — 600 young women and bathed in their blood in order to preserve her own fair skin....
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While this Inferno is a novel, it also follows the details of Myles’s life: a childhood and young adulthood in working-class Boston, a move to New York in the early-‘70s, and a path of self-actualization as a poet in a now-mythic downtown New York: “I understood community. Going to the place and standing around....
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