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Week of February 6, 2011

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SHADOWFEVER
Karen Marie Moning
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SHADOWFEVER

by Karen Marie Moning · Delacorte Press

1 wks at #1 · 1 on list

MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister Alina were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later Alina is dead and Mac has returned to Ireland to hunt her sister's murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline that is both gifted and cursed Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.

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STRATEGIC MOVES
Stuart Woods
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STRATEGIC MOVES

by Stuart Woods · Putnam

1 wks on list

In this New York Times bestseller from Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington gets a big payday and gets set up for an even bigger fall... Stone Barrington is enjoying his usual dinner at Elaine’s when his boss at Woodman & Weld, the law firm where Stone is “of counsel,” walks in, sits down and hands Stone a check for one million dollars. It seems Stone’s undercover dealings with MI6 had brought in a big new client for the firm, and they’re willing to pay Stone a huge bonus and make him a partner. But almost as soon as he’s taken the deal, Stone gets wind of an impending scandal that might torpedo his big promotion: it seems the lucrative new client he’s introduced to the firm might be a devil in disguise...

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THE INNER CIRCLE
Brad Meltzer
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THE INNER CIRCLE

by Brad Meltzer · Grand Central

2 wks on list

The darkest secret of the U.S. Presidency is about to be revealed. Beecher White, a young archivist for the US government, has always been the keeper of other people's stories, never a part of the story himself . . . Until now. While Beecher is showing Clementine Kaye, his first childhood crush, around the National Archives, they accidentally uncover a priceless artefact - a two-hundred-year-old dictionary once belonging to George Washington. Suddenly Beecher and Clementine are entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder. Beecher's race to learn the truth behind this mysterious treasure will lead to a code that conceals a disturbing secret from the nation's founding. A secret that some believe is worth killing for.

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THE SENTRY
Robert Crais
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THE SENTRY

by Robert Crais · Putnam

2 wks on list

After the nightmare of Hurricane Katrina, Dru Rayne and her uncle relocated to Los Angeles. Five years later, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighbourhood gang, he offers his own brand of protection, but neither Dru nor her uncle want his help. And neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their store . . . But Pike is falling for Dru, and won't back away whether she wants his help or not. As the violence escalates, Joe discovers Dru and her uncle are not who they seem - and now a vengeful, murderous force from their past is catching up with them...

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CALL ME IRRESISTIBLE
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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CALL ME IRRESISTIBLE

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips · William Morrow/HarperCollins

1 wks on list

Call Me Irresistible is the book Susan Elizabeth Phillips fans have been craving. The beloved New York Times bestselling author returns with a delightfully sassy, sexy, and downright irresistible tale of true love Texas style. Ted Beaudine, one of Phillips’s most charming characters (the adolescent heartbreaker from her hilarious debut, Fancy Pants, and the new college graduate from Lady Be Good) is now all grown up and in a heap of romantic trouble all his own—in a perfectly marvelous contemporary romance that fans of Emily Giffin, Kristen Hannah, and Elin Hilderbrand will simply adore.

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WHAT THE NIGHT KNOWS
Dean Koontz
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WHAT THE NIGHT KNOWS

by Dean Koontz · Bantam

4 wks on list

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Includes the bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun and an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City!

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ROOM
Emma Donoghue
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ROOM

by Emma Donoghue · Little, Brown

11 wks on list
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THE OUTLAWS
W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV
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THE OUTLAWS

by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV · Putnam

4 wks on list

The former Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis has been disbanded. Charley Castillo and his colleagues have retired, and the sudden death of the President has brought an adversarial Commander-in-Chief into the Oval Office... But just because Castillo is out of the government doesn’t mean he’s out of business. He still has the skills and the manpower to do what others can’t or won’t do. And his first job is a real killer. A barrel filled with some nightmarishly lethal biohazard material has been shipped to an Army medical lab—material that Castillo and his men were supposed to have destroyed on a mission. Clearly, the message is that more of the deadly material remains. But who has it? And what do they want? With lives at stake—including his own—Castillo knows that he’s not going to like the answers one damn bit...

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THREE SECONDS
Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom
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THREE SECONDS

by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom · Silver Oak

** THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER, 'THE INFORMER' ** ** WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER ** ** NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER ** 'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail 'The action is non-stop' The Times 'Three Seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read Three Seconds . . . Terrific' Time Out SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE. ONE MURDER. Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force's best undercover operative. Not even his family know of his double identity. Yet when a drug deal with the Polish mafia goes fatally wrong, his secret life begins to crumble around him. TWO MEN. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmann's true identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. THREE SECONDS. Hoffmann must desperately maintain his cover; else he is a dead man walking. But, in the doggedly-perceptive Ewert Grens, he has just made the most relentless of enemies. Can't get enough of DCI Ewert Grens? Then check out Cell 8, named by the Sunday Times as one of the 60 Best Thrillers and Crime Novels of the Past 6 Years.

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