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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $27.95) The final book of the Millennium Trilogy finds Lisbeth convalescing while Blomkvist investigates her father's death and cover-up. 

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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $13.99) The newborn vampire army closes in on Bella Swan. 

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Random House: $26) A pious Dutch official finds love in this historical romance set in turn-of-the-19th-century Japan. 

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined while changing a Mississippi town. 

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Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic: $17.99) In a post-apocalyptic future, kids are forced to fight in gladiator-like matches to the death. 

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Doubleday: $25.95) Rose Edelstein's gift of taste is bittersweet. 

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The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (Hyperion: $17.99) Siblings battle Egyptian gods to uncover family secrets and find their Egyptologist father. 

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The Passage by Justin Cronin (Ballantine: $27) An apocalypse with fangs: a military experiment with vampires goes wrong and imperils humanity. 

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Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst (Random House: $26) A Greek official becomes immersed with European spies, in the early days of World War II. 

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The Lion by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central: $27.99) A legendary terrorist returns to the U.S. 

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Private by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $27.99) A Former CIA agent tracks down the killer of a former lover. 

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Savages by Don Winslow (Simon & Schuster: $25) Laguna Beach drug dealers take on a violent Baja Cartel. 

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Innocent by Scott Turow (Grand Central: $27.99) Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto return to the courtroom after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife. 

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Point Dume by Katie Arnoldi (Overlook: $24.95) Surf culture and marijuana farming collide in Malibu. 

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Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf: $24.95) An L.A. noir nightmare that returns to "Less Than Zero's" characters as they near middle-age. 

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