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121) The last agent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Betrayed by his own country and tried for treason, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. Exonerated, bitter, and safe, the retired family man is through with duplicitous spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison. If it's Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can't leave her behind. But there's no guarantee it's her - or proof...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. You see, every so often Carol descends into a death-like coma that she calls the Black Place. For two to four days her heartbeat slows way down, her breathing all but stops, and to the eyes of all she would appear dead as a doornail. Only two people know of her condition: her husband Dwight, and her former lover James Moxie--the most legendary outlaw the Trail has ever seen. Just before Carol can share her...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Girl Giant and the Monkey King, Thom and her friends set off on a far flung adventure to save the Heavens and the Jade Emperor from certain destruction. Thom Ngoh thought the Monkey King was her friendhe taught her to control her super strength and to stand up for herself. But really he was just using her. He tricked her into stealing from the Heavens and releasing him from his 500-year prison. Now the Monkey King is waging a war...
124) The jungle challenge
Author
Series
Publisher
Bear Grylls
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Omar is fiercely competitive and very impatient about anything that holds him back. . . especially other people. Activity camp is brilliant because he's the best at all the challenges, it's just so annoying that not all his teammates are as quick or brave or strong as he is. It would be much easier just to ditch them and go it alone. But when he's given a mysterious compass it transports him to a thick jungle that is impossible to get through quickly...
Author
Series
Kingdom of fantasy volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
313 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Once again Geronimo is summoned to the Kingdom of Fantasy, and this time he must rescue five princesses of The Kingdom of Lotus Flowers who have been kidnapped by a terrible witch--but first he must journey to the Island of Dragons to find the bravest, the wisest, the silliest, and wittiest, and the most sincere dragons who prophecy says will aid him in his mission.
Author
Series
Simon Thorn volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Simon Thorn only recently discovered that he's an Animalgam--one of a secret race who can shift into animals. Now, for the first time in his life Simon has real friends to train and study with at the secret Animalgam academy hidden under the Central Park Zoo. But danger awaits just around the corner. Simon's evil grandfather, Orion, has abducted Simon's mother, and he's using her to locate the pieces of a terrible weapon that could destroy the entire...
128) Never say die
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
129) The final mission
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Amelia is the youngest member of crew on the Meddler, a spaceship that salvages scrap metal and anything else of value; currently they are interested in exploiting a debris field near the planet Canus, home to their cabin boy Greeny and his dog-like race, and Amelia is mad because her mother will not let her take part, so she and Greeny stow away on the salvage ship--but not everybody sees this particular debris as free-for-the-taking,...
130) The safari challenge
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 8
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evie likes new experiences - except for being extremely fussy about what she eats. Suddenly she finds herself on a sun-baked safari with Beary Grylls, where food and water are scarce and dangerous wild animals prowl the plains. To survive, Evie must eat what she can, when she can - even if it seems absolutely disgusting. Can Evie overcome her worries and show she has the stomach for adventure?
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Santiago and the crew go on a quest to find Capitan Calavera's magical spyglass. But bad pirate Enrique Real de Palacios III wants it for himself. Can Santiago get the spyglass first and continue protecting the high seas?"--
132) Diamond in the rough
Author
Series
Lost legends volume 2
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Before he defeated Jafar ... Aladdin was just a poor boy in the streets of Agrabah. Twelve-year-old Aladdin has spent his entire life roaming the desert as a part of a tribe of nomads. He has nothing to his name except the stars in the sky, the clothes on his back, and a peculiar necklace left to him by his late mother. But that doesn't bother Aladdin--he doesn't want much. If he had three wishes, he would only ask for one thing: a home. A place...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
134) King of scars
Author
Series
Nikolai Duology volume 1
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
514 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the dark magical force within him challenges his effort to forge new alliances and build a defense against a new threat, Nikolai Lantsov, the young king of Ravka, embarks on a journey to his country's most magical places to vanquish it.
135) Firestorm: a novel
Author
Series
Garrett Kohl novel volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just taken down a dangerous and deadly cartel boss when he finds trouble brewing back on his family's homestead. A powerful energy consortium, Talon Corporation, has started an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy Garrett's land, his family's way of life, and everything they hold dear. To achieve its goals, Talon is flouting the law, bribing public officials, and meeting anyone who challenges it with...
136) Ember
Author
Series
Rescue dogs volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Ember is saved from a house fire, she is brought to the Sterling family, who run a ranch that trains rescue dogs.
137) A sea of gold
Author
Series
A Thomas Kydd novel volume 21
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
382 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnatable position....
138) El Paso: a novel
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After feared outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa kidnaps his grandchildren, railroad tycoon John Shaughnessy, known as the Colonel, ventures to El Paso with his adopted son and a band of hired cowboys on a rescue mission.
Author
Series
Max Geller volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fired for bias against the U.S. president, ex-CIA Russia expert Max Geller gets a chance to redeem his reputation and make a fortune when he is hired to investigate the president's incriminating ties to Moscow. Jill Rucker, an undercover CIA agent, is assigned to work with him - and she does - when she's not pursuing her own conflicting goals. The search takes them to England, Russia, Panama, and Switzerland. Along the way, Max runs afoul of British...
Author
Series
Secret Explorers volume 2
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In The Secret Explorers and the Comet Collision, space expert Roshni leads a mission that's out of this world - literally! With rainforest expert Ollie, she is set the task of fixing the space probe orbiting Jupiter before a comet hits the planet. With the clock ticking, it's a race against time for the Secret Explorers as they dodge asteroids, complete daring spacewalks, and use all their skills to complete their mission."--Amazon.com.