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PLUM LOVIN’
Janet Evanovich
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PLUM LOVIN’

by Janet Evanovich · St. Martin’s Press

3 wks at #1 · 4 on list

Een Amerikaanse premiejaagster gaat op de vooravond van Valentijnsdag op zoek naar de eigenares van een relatiebemiddelingsbureau.

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FOR ONE MORE DAY
Mitch Albom
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FOR ONE MORE DAY

by Mitch Albom · Hyperion

19 wks on list

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his fatherand she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with herthe day he missed and always wished hed had. He asks the questions many of us yearn to ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own.

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THE ALEXANDRIA LINK
Steve Berry
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THE ALEXANDRIA LINK

by Steve Berry · Ballantine

1 wks on list

From the New York Times bestselling author, an ambitious and explosive international thriller with an unexpected historical twist A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped and his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked, all because he is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link - the means of locating the most important cache of ancient knowledge ever assembled: the legendary Library of Alexandria, which vanished without trace fifteen hundred years ago. Now, Malone is forced to join the search for a forgotten truth hidden within that vast literary treasure - a truth that, if revealed, will have grave consequences, not only for Malone, but for the balance of world power . . .

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CROSS
James Patterson
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CROSS

by James Patterson · Little, Brown

12 wks on list

When a beloved relative is murdered, Detective Alex Cross vows to hunt down the killer . . . and discovers a secret that could rock the entire world. Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved niece was brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington, D. C.'s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim. The hunt for the murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to Washington's most infamous club-a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. The killer could be one of their patrons, one of Washington's elite who will do anything to keep their secrets buried. With astonishing plot twists and electrifying revelations that will keep readers on the edge of their seat, I, Alex Cross is the master of suspense at his sharpest and best.

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HANNIBAL RISING
Thomas Harris
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HANNIBAL RISING

by Thomas Harris · Delacorte Press

9 wks on list

Relates the early life of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Eastern Europe, from the ages of six to twenty, following the loss of his entire family during World War II.

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DEEP STORM
Lincoln Child
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DEEP STORM

by Lincoln Child · Doubleday

1 wks on list

Summoned to a remote oil rig to diagnose a strange medical ailment among the rig workers, ex-Navy physician Peter Crane soon discovers that the condition is linked to the underwater excavation being done at science research station Deep Storm.

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HIDE
Lisa Gardner
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HIDE

by Lisa Gardner · Bantam

1 wks on list

The second installment of the award-winning Detective D. D. Warren series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner. There's no use locking the doors. . . . It was the case that nearly killed him. Now a gruesome discovery in an underground chamber is about to resurrect his worst nightmare. And Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodge has only one lead: a young girl who's been in hiding for as long as she can remember. There's no use turning on the light. . . . Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities. But from whom—or what—was Annabelle Granger's family hiding? To find out, Dodge must team up with former lover and partner D. D. Warren from the Boston P.D. to track a woman from Bobby's past who's every bit as dangerous as the new killer. The trail will lead them to a chilling place where there's no one to trust . . . and no place left to hide. The killer knows where to find you.

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ALLEGIANCE
Timothy Zahn
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ALLEGIANCE

by Timothy Zahn · Del Rey/Ballantine

1 wks on list

Never before has the incendiary mix of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn’s trademark, been mmore evident that in this new Star Wars epic. On the heels of the stunning events chronicled in Star Wars: A New Hope, the newly minted heroes of the Rebellion–fledgling Jedi Luke Skywalker, smuggler turned reluctant freedom-fighter Han Solo, and Princess Leia Organa, a bold leader with a world to avenge–must face the harsh realities of the cataclysmic conflict into which they have so bravely plunged. From this point forward, legends will grow, treachery will abound, and lives will be irrevocably altered, in the long, hard fight to counter the fist of tyranny and restore hope to a galaxy too long in darkness. The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance was a decisive blow against the Empire, but Palpatine and his monstrous enforcer, Darth Vader, are no less of a threat. The brutal extermination of Alderaan not only demonstrated the magnitude of their murderous power, but served as a chilling testament to their resolve to crush the Rebel uprising. Standing against them, Skywalker, Solo, and the Princess remain uncertain opponents. Luke is gifted and brave, but unschooled in the power he possesses. Han has doubts about waging someone else’s war–and his contentiousness is one more burden for Leia to bear as she struggles to help keep the Rebellion alive. The three have been sent to mediate a dispute between Rebel Alliance factions in Shelsha Sector–agitating matters by forcing Han to deal not only with pirates, but with his more dreaded enemy, politics. At the same time, Mara Jade–all of eighteen and years away from her fateful meeting with Luke–is serving her evil master, Palpatine, well in her role as the Emperor’s Hand: tracking suspected treachery in the Empire to what may be high places–while trying to stay out of Darth Vader’s way. But the Rebels will prove to be only one of the Empire’s concerns. For Imperial Stormtrooper Daric LaRone, his faith in the Empire shaken by the wanton destruction of Alderaan, will commit a sudden and violent act of defiance, and take four other enforcers with him, in a desperate bid to elude their masters’ wrath. Each of these fateful actions, whether sanctioned, secret, or scandalous, will expose brutality and corruption, spur upheavals destined to shake the Empire to its core, and shape momentous events yet to come.

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THE HUNTERS
W. E. B. Griffin
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THE HUNTERS

by W. E. B. Griffin · Putnam

5 wks on list

The new Presidential Agent novel-now in paperback. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Charley Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered right before their eyes. Those responsible have left just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent and follow it wherever it takes him-even if it's not exactly where he expected.

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NEXT
Michael Crichton
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NEXT

by Michael Crichton · HarperCollins

10 wks on list

Amb la seva habitual habilitat per unir ciència i suspens, en la seva nova novel·la Michael Crichton apropa el lector al món de l'enginyeria genètica, un món vertiginós on res és el que sembla i on cada dia s'obren un munt de noves possibilitats. Però els descobriments científics també poden ser perillosos; barrejar gens de ximpanzé i ésser humà pot portar moltes conseqüències, com aviat descobrirà l'investigador Henry Kendall.Amb un ritme sostingut i una imaginació intel·ligent, aquest thriller científic retrata els fils opacs i multimilionaris que mouen els suposats descobriments genètics i ens planteja tot un seguit de qüestions ètiques, polítiques, científiques i filosòfiques, que ben segur definiran el futur del món.

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EXILE
Richard North Patterson
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EXILE

by Richard North Patterson · Holt

4 wks on list

A successful attorney about to be married and preparing for a run for Congress, David Wolfe's life is thrown into turmoil when he is reunited with Hana Arif, a Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret love affair in law school.

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BAD BLOOD
Linda Fairstein
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BAD BLOOD

by Linda Fairstein · Scribner

3 wks on list

Krimi. Alexandra Cooper er anklager i en sag i New York om et lejemord. Midt under retssagen sker der en eksplosion i en af vandtunnelerne dybt under jorden, og tilsyneladende er der en sammenhæng. Det tvinger Alexandra til at gå i dybden på mere end én måde

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THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE
Philippa Gregory
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THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE

by Philippa Gregory · Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

From “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) the author of Boleyn Traitor comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family. After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The Boleyn Inheritance follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the king’s decision, as they must balance precariously in an already shaky Tudor Court. Anne of Cleves is to be married to Henry to form a political alliance, though the rocky relationship she has to the king does not bode well for her or for England. Katherine Howard is the young, beautiful woman who captures Henry’s eye, even though he is set to marry Anne. Her spirit runs free and her passions run hot—though her affections may not be returned upon the King. Jane Rochford was married to George Boleyn, and it was her testimony that sent her husband and infamous sister-in-law Anne to their deaths. Throughout the country, her name is known for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three women whose positions brought them wealth, admirations, and power, as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.