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“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant,...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant,...
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Revenge may be the only route to redemption for both Wesley and his enigmatic, murdered father In Irwin Shaw's celebrated novel Rich Man, Poor Man, the Jordache clan was divided and scattered by the forces of American culture and capitalism after World War II. In this potent sequel, the family reunites after a terrible act of violence. Wesley never really knew his father, Tom, the black sheep of the Jordache family. Driven by his sorrow and a...
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Maggie O'Dell novel volume 5
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While investigating the ritualistic murders of Catholic priests across America, Maggie O'Dell stumbles upon an Internet role-playing game for youths who have been victims of male authority figures.
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A captured outlaw gets caught up in a bloody range war in this thrilling tale of the Old West from a Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award–winning author.
Lawbreaker Webb Cousins is headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter has him cuffed and covered, with no chance of escape. But when the prisoner and his captor ride into the town of Wagon Mound, death rides with them.
In a flash of rifle fire and a spray of blood, Cousins...
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A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie's Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife. Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies, a husband and wife who had been shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion?...
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He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war...
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Maggie O'Dell novel volume 4
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With only an old man afflicted with Alzheimer's as a witness, FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is on the trail of a serial killer who targets people with physical disabilities, removing each victim's imperfections to keep as a twisted trophy.
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Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forest--unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform...
12) Before Evil
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International bestseller Alex Kava delivers a stunning prequel to her critically acclaimed Maggie O’Dell series.
From her small Quantico office, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell has profiled serial killers using Poloraids, faxed copies and scraps of evidence provided by homicide detectives from across the country. She's gained a reputation for successfully profiling killers and solving crimes without ever stepping
13) Split second
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FBI profiler Maggi O'Dell is still physically and mentally scarred by the two years she spent on Albert Stucky's case and she's fighting to get back on it. She gets her wish. Before she can even unpack the boxes in her new home, one of her neighbors disappears, leaving behind a bloody mess, and another is found dead in a Dumpster.
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"New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava returns in a blaze of glory with a gripping, action-packed thriller featuring special agent Maggie O'Dell, who is leading the search for a serial arsonist whose crimes threaten Maggie dangerously close to home. When a building bursts into flames on a cold winter night in D.C., investigators see a resemblance to a string of recent fires in the area. There is one difference, however: This one has a human...
16) Hotwire
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In western Nebraska, what starts as a group of teens filming their drug-fueled party ends explosively, leaving victims apparently electrocuted with odd scorch marks. As Special Agent Maggie O'Dell sorts reality from hallucination in their stories, she realizes that the survivors are being eliminated. On the East Coast, her partner R. J. Tully and Army colonel Ben Platt investigate a deadly pathogen outbreak - a case that will soon collide with hers....
17) Off the Grid
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For the first time, all of New York Times bestselling author, Alex Kava's short works of psychological suspense are finally together in one collection.
OFF THE GRID offers four short stories and one novella. All but one, feature Kava's critically acclaimed FBI profiler, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell. In Goodnight Sweet Mother, Maggie O'Dell and her mother's road trip takes a chilling and an unexpected detour.
A Breath of Hot Air puts Maggie's forensic...
18) Cazador de almas
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Alex Kava nos atrapa en otra escalofriante novela con la agente O'Dell como protagonista.
En una cabaña aislada de Massachusetts, seis jóvenes dispuestos a morir se atrincheran esperando el asalto de agentes del FBI.
En una zona boscosa de Washington, cerca del monumento a Franklin D. Roosevelt, aparece el cadáver de la hija de un senador.
Para Maggie O'Dell, agente especial del FBI encargada de la investigación, estos dos casos están lejos...
19) Bajo sospecha
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Bajo sospecha es el primer libro de Alex Kava. Con él se ha hecho un hueco entre los escritores actuales del género de intriga. Con una maestría ejemplar va desgranando una inquietante historia de suspense y embarca a los protagonistas en una escalofriante lucha contra el mal.
¿Qué ocurre cuando un asesino en serie es condenado y ejecutado, y meses después comienzan a ocurrir asesinatos que siguen el mismo patrón?
El sheriff Nick Morelli no...
20) The ambassadors
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Sent to Paris by a wealthy matron to retrieve her son, Strether becomes sidetracked by an intriguing complication.