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1) The fallen
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Series
Language
English
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Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes to investigate he finds two dead bodies inside and it's...
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Series
Shaw and kaie james volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Shadowy operative Shaw and Reggie Campion, a woman working for a secret vigilante group, must work together in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising enemy, in a struggle that leads them around the world at a breakneck pace.
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Series
Shaw and katie james volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While the head of the world's largest defense contractor conspires to gain even more riches by instigating a war, an intelligence agent reluctantly travels to keep the world safe, and a journalist receives a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre.
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Series
King and Maxwell volume 6
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After receiving a communication from his father, who had been supposedly killed in action in Afghanistan, teenager Tyler Wingo hires Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to investigate, which leads to troubling questions about Tyler's father and his mission.
5) Black ops
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Series
The presidential agent volume 5
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of murders involving covert intelligence informers, Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo wonders about vague similarities between the killings and a recent case involving a pair of CIA traitors.
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Language
English
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Description
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania&;s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman&;s Empty Quarter&;and many places beyond.
In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives...
8) Vanished
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Series
Series Nick Heller volume 1
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English
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After an assault leaves his estranged brother nowhere to be found and his sister-in-law in a coma, security investigator and ex-intelligence agent Nick Heller is forced to contend with one of the most powerful and secretive corporations in the world.
11) Simple genius
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Series
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are back, and struggling in the emotional aftermath of the events that brought them to the brink in Hour Game. Dogged by personal demons, Maxwell agrees to treatment in a psychiatric institution after barely surviving a violent barroom brawl. And King, to right their partnership, accepts an offer to investigate a murder in a scientific think tank named Babbage Town. Feeling cured, Michelle joins him on the case, and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term space flight, the devastating effects on the body, and the necessary isolation that path entails.
13) The Man in Milan
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For fans of Daniel Silva and David Baldacci comes a gripping thriller based on real world events that will have you riveted until the final page is turned. When NYPD detectives Paul Rossi and Hamilton P. Turner begin investigating the Sutton Place murder of an Italian air force pilot, the last thing they expect is that they will and find themselves sucked into the potential cover-up of the Ustica massacre, the most horrific aviation crime in Italian...
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Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Emily Bestler books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
With a non-aggression pact in place that keeps Saudi involvement in 9/11 quiet in exchange for oil, Mitch Rapp undergoes a covert mission as a traitor to keep the peace when evidence emerges that the Saudis are funding ISIS.
16) Those in peril
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Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
20) Satori
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English