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The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama

My Life as a Furry Red Monster
by Kevin Clash and Gary Brozek

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Rachael Ray 2,4,6,8
by Rachael Ray

Christmas Carol Audio
by Charles Dickens and read by Jim Dale

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
by Bethesda Softworks

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H.R.H.
by Danielle Steel

Flags of our Fathers
by James Bradley with Ron Powers

Christmas in Camelot
by Mary Pope Osborne

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Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook
by Georgeanne Brennan

Fodor's Hawaii 2007
by Fodor's

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -- Collector's Edition
by David Hodgson and Stephen Stratton

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Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham

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Roseanna

Roseanna
Written by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Price: $13.95

The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.

On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck... Read more >

A Christmas Grace

A Christmas Grace
Written by Anne Perry

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Price: $18.00

When the season brings a chill, nothing warms the heart or elevates the spirits like a new novel by Anne Perry, whom the Chicago Sun-Times calls “the most adroit sleight-of-hand practitioner since Agatha Christe.” Perry’s gifts are on full display in A Christmas Grace–a hope-filled tale of forgiveness that is rich... Read more >

Also available as an eBook.
Poe's Children

Poe's Children
Written by Peter Straub

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Price: $24.95

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre.

Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness... Read more >

Rules of Deception

Rules of Deception
Written by Christopher Reich

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Price: $24.95

Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.

Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope...

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Fade Away

Fade Away
Written by Harlan Coben

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Price: $22.00

The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legos—and blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories—of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved... Read more >

Nothing to Lose

Nothing to Lose
Written by Lee Child

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Price: $27.00

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear... Read more >

The Night Stalker

The Night Stalker
Written by James Swain

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Price: $25.00

Hard-edged, evocative, brilliantly paced, James Swain’s novels of crime and punishment in South Florida delve into a shadowy realm where criminals, victims, and cops share the same truths, the same lies, and sometimes even the same nightmares.

Abb Grimes is famous. Just ask the ghoulish tourists who flock to his former home... Read more >

Also available as an eBook and a paperback.
The Fifth Floor

The Fifth Floor
Written by Michael Harvey

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Price: $23.95

Michael Harvey’s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way (“A wonderful first novel . . . Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel . . . Heralds the arrival of a major new voice” —Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and... Read more >

Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.
Not in the Flesh

Not in the Flesh
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Price: $25.95

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.”

When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this... Read more >


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