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Four To Score Four To Score: A Stephanie Plum Mystery
by Janet Evanovich
Hardcover: Jun 1998
Paperback: 1 May 1999
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Bounty-hunting Jersey girl Stephanie Plum is hot on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress wanted for bail jumping, theft, and extortion.
N Is For Noose N Is For Noose
by Sue Grafton
Hardcover: Apr 1998
Paperback: 1 Apr 1999
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In which Kinsey Milhone becomes the target and an entire town seems in for the kill.
Fear Nothing Fear Nothing
by Dean Koontz
Hardcover: Feb 1998
Paperback: 1 Dec 1998
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Chris Snow discovers his mother was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters.
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Helga's Diary
Helga Weiss

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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.
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Mary Beth Keane

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A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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Claire Messud

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The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
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