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A brilliant infectious-disease doctor has vanished — along with enough engineered pathogen to start a global pandemic. Convinced that humanity is a disease the planet must be cured of, he intends to release it. Lucas Davenport and his daughter Letty race across continents to find him before he can carry out a plan to kill millions.

Stephen Fry retells the complete story of the Trojan War, from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis and the Judgment of Paris through the fall of Troy and the fates of its heroes, with characteristic wit and erudition.

Hawthorne's first major collection includes 'The Minister's Black Veil,' 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,' 'The Gray Champion,' and 'Wakefield' — stories of Puritan guilt, scientific hubris, moral allegory, and the stranger who removes himself from human society.

Senator Taryn Grant — the sociopath Lucas Davenport tangled with years ago — is now in the Senate, and just as dangerous. When she tries to murder a colleague who got in her way, Lucas, now a U.S. Marshal, sets out to stop her, knowing she has the money, the power, and the private muscle to make a marshal disappear.

Two pharmacists are gunned down, and Harry Bosch goes undercover into the brutal world of opioid pill mills to find the killers. At the same time, a death-row inmate claims new DNA proves Bosch framed him decades ago — and to save his own integrity, Bosch must prove that the conviction was clean.

Melville's first novel, based on his actual time among the Typee people of the Marquesas Islands after jumping ship, is part adventure narrative, part ethnography, and part critique of Western civilization's assumptions about 'savagery.'

Set over a single day in Dublin on June 16, 1904, James Joyce's Ulysses follows advertising canvasser Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly, and the young writer Stephen Dedalus through the city in a revolutionary act of literary modernism modeled on Homer's Odyssey.

An invisible, impenetrable dome descends without warning on the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, sealing it off from the outside world. As resources dwindle and communication with the exterior becomes impossible, the town's worst political instincts emerge with terrifying speed.

Juliette has escaped the Reestablishment and found safety at Omega Point, a refuge for those with supernatural abilities. But safety has its own demands, and when Warner — the Reestablishment commander she fled — reveals unexpected depths, Juliette's certainties begin to unravel.

Blake Crouch's high-concept thriller about the next stage of human evolution. After being secretly infected with an engineered upgrade to his own genome, Logan Ramsay finds his mind and body transformed — and must decide what the human species should become as a reckoning approaches.

David Nicholls's Booker-longlisted novel of a marriage in crisis. On the eve of a grand European tour, Douglas's wife Connie tells him she may be leaving him. Determined to win her back and reconnect with his estranged son, the buttoned-up Douglas embarks on a poignant, funny grand tour across the continent.

Watt arrives at the house of Mr. Knott to serve as his domestic. He observes everything with extreme precision and cannot understand any of it. When his service ends, he moves to an asylum and dictates the story to a man named Sam. Beckett's most comic novel—and the one in which he worked out the machinery he would use for the rest of his career.

As the Republican National Convention descends on St. Paul, a crew of professional thieves plans to rob the millions in cash flowing through the political machine. But a separate, more personal danger is closing in: a vicious criminal with a grudge has set his sights on Letty, Lucas Davenport's teenage daughter.

Grady Tripp, a creative writing professor at a Pittsburgh university, has been working on his second novel for seven years. It is 2,600 pages and shows no signs of ending. Over one chaotic weekend — during a literary festival — everything in his life comes apart at once: his wife leaves, his editor arrives, his student steals a jacket from the chancellor's house.

In 1979, a group of privileged prep-school students filmed a sexual assault, then one of them was murdered. A decade later, the convicted killer is released and the old tape resurfaces as blackmail — and Kinsey Millhone is hired into the case. Meanwhile, the predator from her last investigation is still hunting her.

Noelle Shepard needs to escape her life after a public humiliation. Her late grandmother's wish was for Noelle to complete a cross-country road trip to scatter her ashes at the Grand Canyon — a trip she must share with Theo Garrett, the grandson of her grandmother's old flame, who happens to be exactly the wrong and right person at exactly the wrong and right time.

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club hunt a killer whose seemingly random murders share a chilling hidden link — and a vendetta against the police themselves. As the body count rises, the case reaches into Lindsay's own family and past.

A house explosion that kills a family draws Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club into the path of a radical group targeting the rich and powerful. As bombings and assassinations escalate toward a deadly climax, the case exacts a devastating personal cost on the club itself.

After a shootout leaves Lindsay Boxer facing a career-ending lawsuit, she retreats to the coastal town of Half Moon Bay — only to stumble onto a string of brutal murders of wealthy couples. As her trial looms in San Francisco, two cases close in on her at once.

Wole Soyinka's ambitious, mythic play, written for Nigeria's 1960 independence. Blending Yoruba cosmology, satire, and modernist drama, it summons the dead to a gathering of the living, refusing easy celebration to confront a new nation with the failures and corruption of its past and future.

The fourth and final Bruce Medway novel, returning to Benin — where the series began — as Medway investigates a brutal murder connected to the region's vodoun culture and its underworld of ritual and violence. A fitting close to the West African series, darker and more interior than the earlier books.

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is pulled back into the work to consult on a ritualistic murder — and the evidence he uncovers points, impossibly, to LAPD detective Harry Bosch. As McCaleb builds a case against a man he respects, Bosch is locked in a high-profile trial, unaware that an old colleague has turned his expert eye on him.

In 1970s London, a middle-aged travelling salesman is captivated by a young Yugoslav woman named Roza, who claims to be a prostitute and tells him stories about her father — a partisan in Tito's Yugoslavia — that may or may not be true.

Six stories set in the weeks following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, all featuring characters who are not in Kobe but are affected by the disaster at a psychological distance. The earthquake becomes a figure for the ruptures in ordinary life that expose what is missing underneath. Murakami's most politically engaged fiction — a meditation on collective trauma and individual isolation in Japan in the 1990s.