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The Alexandria Link

Steve Berry · 609 pages

Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: "You have something I want. You're the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don't hear from you, you will be childless." His horrif

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan · 288 pages

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything; instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes fro

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The Dead of Night

Peter Lerangis · 190 pages

| The third book in the CAHILLS VS. VESPERS series, the follow up to the worldwide bestseller THE 39 CLUES. | | The Vespers have crossed a line. Amy and Dan were devastated when the Vespers kidnapped seven Cahills around the world, holding them hostage until Amy and Dan delivered an impossible ransom. But at least the hostages were Cahills - members of the world's most powerful family, trained

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Vespers Rising

Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson

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The Maze of Bones

Rick Riordan · 220 pages

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue. Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's sec

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J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst · 456 pages

"A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named

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The Inheritance Games

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 389 pages

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where e

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If You're Reading This, It's Too Late

Pseudonymous Bosch · 385 pages

Beware! Dangerous secrets lie between the pages of this book. OK, I warned you. But if you think I'll give anything away, or tell you that this is the sequel to my first literary endeavor, The Name of This Book is Secret, you're wrong. I'm not going to remind you of how we last left our heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest, as they awaited intiation into the mysterious Terces Society, or the ongoing fight

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Over Sea, Under Stone

Susan Cooper · 252 pages

On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drews put their very lives in peril. This is the first volume of Susan

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The Shadow Cipher

Laura Ruby · 476 pages

In an alternate history of New York, three kids try to solve a modern-world puzzle and complete a treasure hunt laid into the streets and buildings of the city.

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The Emperor's Code

Gordon Korman · 190 pages

Amy and Dan are separated while trying to retrieve a clue which is guarded by thousands of soldiers and worry they cannot succeed apart.

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In Too Deep

Jude Watson · 206 pages

**Could Amy and Dan's biggest enemy be . . . a friend? Book 6 in the series challenges everything you thought you knew about the Clue race.** Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, head to the Land Down Under to discover what their own mother and father knew about the hunt for the 39 Clues. But following in their parents' footsteps brings up lost memories for Amy so awful th

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Storm Warning

Linda Sue Park · 190 pages

The shadow of the man in black has followed fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother Dan on their worldwide search for 39 Clues that lead to a great power. The man has tried to kill them and he is a Madrigal, as were their parents. And now the man is ready to step out of the darkness for their final confrontation.

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the Ludwig Conspiracy

Oliver Potzsch · 464 pages

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Interred with Their Bones

Jennifer Lee Carrell · 424 pages

A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found.A killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities.A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . . .On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking di

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Into the Gauntlet

Margaret Peterson Haddix

The explosive finale! Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet-a task no Cahill dared to i

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Click Here to Start

Denis Markell · 320 pages

Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer playing video games. So when his great-uncle dies and bequeaths him the all so-called treasure in his overstuffed junk shop of an apartment, Ted explores it like it s another level to beat. And to his shock, he finds that eccentric Great-Uncle Ted actually has set the place up like a real-life escape-the-room game!

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The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown · 454 pages

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously d

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The Ring of Rocamadour

Michael D. Beil · 256 pages

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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 384 pages

In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts *really* feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever ca

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Map of Bones

James Rollins · 540 pages

The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization.The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany

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The City of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau · 270 pages

The film tie-in edition to this gripping and intriguing thriller set in an all-too-possible future. Now a major blockbuster starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and Liz Smith.Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading th

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The Blackthorn Key

Kevin Sands · 384 pages

"Tell no one what I've given you." Until he got that cryptic warning, Chrisopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master Benedict Blackthorn--with maybe an ecplosion or two along the way. But when a myswterious cult begins to prey on London's apothecaries, the trail of murders grows closer a

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