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The Historian
By Elizabeth Kostova
F KOSTOVA
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.

The Last Heroes
By W. E. B. Griffin
F GRIFFIN
The World War II adventures of a group of OSS agents, the highlight of which is the abduction of a French engineer from Morocco. The man possesses knowledge vital to the construction of the atom bomb.

Map of Bones
By James Rollins
F ROLLINS
When several people are burned to death during the theft of a religious artifact, Gray Pierce, a new member of the U.S. SIGMA force, pursues a clandestine fraternity of alchemists who would use the artifact to establish a new world order.

Riptide
By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
F PRESTON
Every expedition mounted to uncover $2 billion worth of pirate treasure off the coast of Maine has failed violently, and even modern technology will not protect the newest hunters from the evil secrets at the bottom of the ocean.

A Game for Heroes
By Jack Higgins
F HIGGINS
Intrepid British spy and soldier of fortune Owen Morgan leads a hard-nosed gang of commandos on a mission to destroy an island fortress of the Third Reich in the English Channel.