Reading, KateOverview
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Kate Reading
The host
by Stephenie Meyer
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13 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in English and held by 1,525 libraries worldwide The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie Stryder's body didn't expect ger to refuse to relinquish possession of her mind.
At risk
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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13 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 1,431 libraries worldwide A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. But the result is a new round of violence.
Trace
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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13 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 1,414 libraries worldwide When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a crime, she finds that nothing is as she left it: her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case. Without the assistance of her colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are busy in what first appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta must solve the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. All she has to go by are the smallest pieces of evidence and twisting leads and details that will reveal the sad truth that might be more that she can bear.
Scarpetta
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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12 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 1,414 libraries worldwide Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City examining an injured man at the psychiatric prison ward. Oscar Bane, chained and handcuffed, had specifically asked for Scarpetta and as the interview begins, the story Oscar relates is the most peculiar tale Kay has ever heard.
Book of the dead
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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10 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,369 libraries worldwide Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself and her colleagues--Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy--confronted by a horrifying series of crimes that may have an underlying link.
Predator
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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13 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 1,368 libraries worldwide Dr. Kay Scarpetta is now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.
The front
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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14 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 1,298 libraries worldwide Winston Garano is the investigator for the case of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962, and assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler. Unbeknownst to Winston, this case will take him on a journey that will test his limits, uncover ancient secrets, and even endanger his own life.
The Scarpetta factor
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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6 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in English and held by 1,263 libraries worldwide Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for a show on CNN--becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
Blow fly
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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13 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 959 libraries worldwide Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida. There she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
Private life [a novel
by Jane Smiley
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7 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 880 libraries worldwide Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer, a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck".
The last precinct
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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7 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 865 libraries worldwide Kay Scarpetta is mandated to investigate the four-hundred-year-old violent death of one of America's first settlers at Jamestown.
Point of origin
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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8 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 836 libraries worldwide Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is pitted against a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes.
Port mortuary
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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3 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 747 libraries worldwide When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover who and why before more people die.
Black notice
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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6 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 717 libraries worldwide An unidentified, decaying corpse is found inside a locked container on a ship arriving in Richmond, Virginia, from Belgium. Clues lead Kay Scarpetta from Richmond to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France. There, she is directed to the Paris morgue to obtain secret evidence and return to Virginia to complete her mission--a task that could ruin her career...
Jackdaws
by Ken Follett
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6 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 704 libraries worldwide With the Allies preparing for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, Felicity "Flick" Clariet, a British special operations agent, must take on the job of destroying German lines of communication with the aid of an all-woman team.
A long way down
by Nick Hornby
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8 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 689 libraries worldwide Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
Emma's secret
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 648 libraries worldwide When a dying woman begs her granddaughter to find Emma Harte in London, Evan Hughes complies, even though she has no idea who Emma is. Soon, captivated by the allure of that venerable city, she finds herself wrapped up in the glamour and intrigue of the Hartes' world. Through her eyes we come to know Emma's secrets, which turn the story back to World War II and a hidden part of her past.
Portrait of a killer Jack the ripper, case closed
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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9 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 642 libraries worldwide Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on the case of serial murder in the history of crime-the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London. She digs deeper into the case and reveals the true identity of this elusive madman.
New spring
by Robert Jordan
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14 editions published between 2004 and 2011 in English and held by 623 libraries worldwide A newborn child, prophesied to change the world, must be found before the forces of the Shadow have a chance to kill him.
Burnt Mountain
by Anne Rivers Siddons
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5 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 614 libraries worldwide Thayer Wentworth marries an Irish professor and moves into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta a short distance away from the summer camp she attended as a child, where she begins to question whether her husband is the man she thought she knew. more
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