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IF YOU LIKED THE DA VINCI CODE
Dan Brown's THE DA VINCI CODE was one of the most talked about --- and controversial --- books of 2003. Some people believe it was one of the best books (if not the best book) they have ever read, and at one point this summer it was atop every bestseller list in the country. In fact, USA Today recently reported that an astounding 90 books have seen sales increases thanks to the popularity of Brown's latest thriller. With this in mind, we have assembled 20 books --- both fiction and nonfiction --- that we think you'll especially enjoy if you liked THE DA VINCI CODE.
 THE AMBER ROOM
Steve Berry
Ballantine Books
Suspense
ISBN: 0345460030
Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler is leading a good life --- she loves her kids, enjoys her job and has a civil relationship with her ex-husband Paul. But everything changes when her father, a man who survived the horrors of World War II, dies under strange circumstances --- and leaves behind clues to a secret he kept his entire life about The Amber Room, a part of Russian history stolen by the Nazis.
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 ANGELS & DEMONS
Dan Brown
Pocket Star
Thriller
ISBN: 0671027360
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization --- the Illuminati. He joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra in a desperate attempt to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb.
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 THE BLESSING STONE
Barbara Wood
Griffin Trade Paperback
Fiction
ISBN: 0312320248
Internationally bestselling author Barbara Wood has created a fictional yet remarkably believable world, in which the lives of seven individuals are affected in different ways by one magical blue stone.
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 THE CLOWNS OF GOD
Morris West
The Toby Press LLC
Fiction
ISBN: 1902881842
Pope Gregory XVII claims to have received a private revelation of the end of the world --- an apocalypse coming not in some distant future but at any moment. Is he a madman (as his cardinals suspect), a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?
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 THE CODE BOOK: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh
Anchor
History
ISBN: 0385495323
Former BBC producer and bestselling author Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations and individual lives.
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 THE CONFESSOR
Daniel Silva
Putnam
Thriller
ISBN: 0399149724
Art restorer and reluctant Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is asked to investigate the vicious murder of his friend Benjamin Stern, a onetime agent who was researching and writing a book on the role of the Vatican in the Holocaust.
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 THE DEATH ARTIST: A Novel of Suspense
Jonathan Santlofer
HarperTorch
Thriller
ISBN: 0060004428
Kate McKinnon, a former NYPD cop who is now a renowned art expert, is taunted by a madman as she tries to unravel a series of ritualistic murders that point to someone within her professional circle.
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 DECEPTION POINT
Dan Brown
Pocket Books
Thriller
ISBN: 0671027387
Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton and a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, travel to the Arctic on behalf of the White House to verify the authenticity of NASA's discovery of a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice. They uncover the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery. But before the President can be warned, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins, and their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot.
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 THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
Morris West
HarperCollins
Fiction
ISBN: 0061010790
In the bare, rocky desolation of Calabria in Southern Italy, a cult of sainthood has grown around Giacomo Nerone, a mysterious figure who appeared in the last years of World War II. A dying English priest, Blaise Meredith, is dispatched from Rome as a canonical inquisitor, a Devil's Advocate, to investigate Nerone's sainthood.
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 DIGITAL FORTRESS
Dan Brown
Griffin Trade Paperbacks
Thriller
ISBN: 0312263120
Susan Fletcher, head cryptographer for the National Security Agency, learns that the agency is being held hostage by a code so mysterious and complex that it would cripple U.S. intelligence if released --- but Susan is determined to save the agency she so deeply believes in.
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 THE EIGHT
Katherine Neville
Ballantine
Thriller
ISBN: 0345366239
As she is about to embark on a business trip to Algeria, computer expert Cat Velis is warned of danger by a mysterious fortune teller, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years.
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 THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN
Daniel Silva
Thriller
Signet
ISBN: 0451208188
When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is sent to Zurich, Switzerland to restore the painting of a reclusive millionaire banker, he arrives to find his would-be employer lifeless at the foot of his Raphael. A secret collection of priceless, illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing, and Gabriel's handlers admit the awful truth behind the murder.
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 THE FOOTPRINTS OF GOD
Greg Iles
Scribner
Suspense/Thriller
ISBN: 0743234693
In the heart of North Carolina's Research Triangle stands a corporate laboratory that is similar to the others nearby. But behind its walls, America's top scientists work around the clock to build a supercomputer that surpasses the power of the human mind.
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 HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
Dell
Church History
ISBN: 0440136482
Is it possible that Christ did not die on the cross? Is it possible that Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? And is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail? According to the authors of this provocative and meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible --- they are probably true!
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 THE LAST CONFESSION
Morris West
The Toby Press LLC
Fiction
ISBN: 1902881443
This book, from acclaimed Australian author Morris West, is a posthumously published fictional account of Dominican monk Giordano Bruno's imprisonment before he is convicted of heresy and burned at the stake during the Inquisition in 1600. Presented in the form of a final testament written by Bruno in prison, the novel chronicles Bruno's life, his religious reflections and his final days in his cell.
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 THE MAGIC CIRCLE
Katherine Neville
Ballantine
Thriller
ISBN: 0345423135
When her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin, Ariel Behn becomes the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that thrusts her into the deadly center of international intrigue --- and an age-old enigma that spans the centuries. Whoever assembles and interprets the cryptic clues of this ancient mystery will possess the power to control the fate of the world.
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 THE MARCHING SEASON
Daniel Silva
Signet
Thriller
ISBN: 045120932X
Coming January 6th in paperback
When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered by three savage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into the depths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated to become the new American ambassador to London, retired CIA agent Michael Osbourne is drawn back into the game. He soon discovers that his father-in-law is marked for execution and that he himself is once again in the crosshairs of a killer known as October, one of the most merciless assassins the world has ever known.
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 MARY, CALLED MAGDALENE
Margaret George
Penguin USA
Historical Fiction
ISBN: 0142002798
In a vivid recreation of Mary Magdalene's life story, bestselling author Margaret George captures this most tantalizing of all Biblical characters as she moves from girlhood to womanhood, becomes part of the circle of disciples, and comes to grips with the divine. For more, visit http://www.margaretgeorge.com
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 THE MESSIANIC LEGACY
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
Dell
Church History
ISBN: 0440203198
Was there more than one Christ? Who really constituted Jesus' following, and what were the real identities of Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot? What links the Vatican, the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, Freemasonry, and the Knights Templar? The answers to these and many more intriguing and potentially explosive questions can be found in this enlightening book.
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 QUICKSILVER: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow
Fiction
ISBN: 0380977427
In this first volume of a projected trilogy, Neal Stephenson introduces readers to three intriguing characters --- Daniel Waterhouse, a fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan who pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe; "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe, a London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds, who risks his life fortune and love; and Eliza, a young English woman rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become a spy, confidante and pawn of royals.
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