Brian Muraresku's provocative investigation into the hidden history of psychedelics and Western religion. Across a twelve-year quest through archaeology, ancient languages, and secret archives, he argues that a psychedelic sacrament may lie at the origins of Greek mystery cults and early Christianity.
An investigator for the agency that polices judicial misconduct receives a chilling tip: a sitting Florida judge is a meticulous serial killer who has eluded detection for years. As Lacy Stoltz digs into his hidden list of victims, she realizes her own name may be added to it.
In 2005, a young archaeologist discovers two skeletons and an ancient ring near Carcassonne; in 1209, a young woman becomes the guardian of three books containing the secret of the Holy Grail during the brutal Cathar Crusade — two women separated by eight centuries but bound by the same ancient mystery.
Stoker's final novel pits a young Englishman against an ancient, monstrous entity lurking beneath the English countryside — part gothic horror, part folk legend, part fever dream. Lady Arabella March conceals a terrifying secret in her estate, and only Adam Salton can confront the primordial evil coiled beneath Mercy Farm.
Brad Thor's seventh Scot Harvath thriller. Counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath races across Europe and the Middle East to recover a lost secret about the origins of Islam — a revelation powerful enough to change history, and one that ruthless enemies will kill to keep buried.
Robert Langdon is called to Washington D.C. under false pretenses and plunged into a frantic one-night race through the Capitol's corridors of power. Freemason symbolism, Ancient Mysteries, and a villain whose identity reshapes the entire narrative — Brown's most American thriller.
A Cambridge group therapist becomes obsessed with a charismatic Greek Tragedy professor she suspects of murder, convinced he is connected to the ritualistic killings of young women who belong to his secret society — The Maidens.
The Mandible family, expecting to inherit a great fortune, watches the American economy collapse in 2029 under sovereign debt crisis and currency destruction — a multigenerational economic dystopia that follows one family's survival over nearly two decades.
Jerzy Kosinski's harrowing, controversial classic. A dark-haired boy, taken for a Jew or Gypsy, wanders the brutal countryside of Eastern Europe during World War II, enduring relentless cruelty at the hands of superstitious peasants — a nightmarish allegory of war, otherness, and human savagery.
Lexi Ryan's BookTok-favorite faerie romantasy. To free her sister from the Unseelie king, Brie agrees to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court, posing as a potential bride for its prince — and finds herself caught between two dangerous, seductive faerie princes and two treacherous courts.
A killer is murdering entire families in their homes, vanishing without a trace, and the press has dubbed him the most meticulous murderer in history. As Alex Cross hunts him, a celebrated true-crime writer who has made Cross his subject inserts himself into the investigation — with an agenda of his own.
Kinsey Millhone reports a shoplifting team she spots in a department store — a small good deed with deadly consequences. When one of the women is soon found dead, an apparent suicide, her grieving fiancé hires Kinsey, and the trail leads into a sophisticated organized-theft operation run by people who do not forgive interference.
Set in fourteenth-century Italy, Valperga follows the rise of the condottiere Castruccio Castracani — a real historical figure — from boyhood idealism to tyrannical power, through the eyes of Euthanasia, the remarkable Countess of Valperga, who loves him and watches him be destroyed by ambition.
Cassie Black, an ex-convict trying to go straight, agrees to one last high-stakes heist in Las Vegas — the score that will fund a new life and let her reclaim the daughter she gave up. But the job goes wrong, and a ruthless fixer is dispatched to recover what she took, hunting her across the desert in a deadly cat-and-mouse.
A kidnapper is abducting the children of New York's wealthiest families and quizzing them on the suffering of the poor — and when they fail his lessons in inequality, they die. Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker race to stop a killer who has turned class guilt into a death sentence.
A devious divorcée cons Kinsey Millhone into helping locate an estranged son, the first thread in a web of deceit. Meanwhile, a dead colleague's files reveal a coded list — the record of a methodical killer who has murdered women for years without detection. The lone 'X' marks the series' darkest, most ruthless adversary.
The third Ender novel expands to three worlds simultaneously: Lusitania, where Ender and Valentine race to prevent a deadly descolada virus from spreading; Path, a Chinese-influenced planet whose most gifted citizens are afflicted with obsessive-compulsive rituals they believe are divine; and a Starways Congress determined to eliminate the threat by destroying an entire planet.
Jeffrey Lockhart is summoned to a remote facility in central Asia where the ultra-wealthy can cryonically preserve their bodies until medicine can cure what ails them. His father has paid for Jeffrey's stepmother to be preserved as she dies of multiple sclerosis. The novel meditates on death, technology, and the human refusal to accept mortality.
Newly married, Lindsay Boxer barely has time for a honeymoon before a newborn baby vanishes and a terrified teenager stands accused. As Lindsay races to find the missing child, Yuki prosecutes a brutal assault case and Lindsay's own marriage is tested by the relentless pull of the job.
Severed heads are unearthed in the garden of a San Francisco mansion, and a vigilante is executing the city's drug dealers with a gun stolen from the police evidence locker. Newly pregnant and stretched thin, Lindsay Boxer must solve two cases that both seem to point uncomfortably close to home.
Lindsay Boxer gives birth just as three cases collide: a professor who dreams murders before they happen, a corpse that vanishes from the morgue, and a star athlete accused of a brutal killing. New motherhood and the relentless job pull Lindsay in every direction at once.
Brutal crimes are being committed by people in San Francisco police uniforms, and the evidence points inside Lindsay Boxer's own department. As the corruption spreads and trust collapses, Lindsay must investigate the colleagues she works beside every day — and decide who, if anyone, she can still believe.
Healthy men are dropping dead of sudden heart attacks that prove to be murders, the work of a killer with an intimate, deadly method. As Lindsay Boxer hunts the cause, she also faces the trial of a man accused of a devastating bombing — and the wreckage of her own marriage after Joe's betrayal.
A young mother and her baby daughter vanish, and all eyes turn to the husband — a man whose calm is unnerving and whose story doesn't add up. As Lindsay Boxer races to find the missing pair, the case twists toward something darker and stranger than a simple domestic tragedy.
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