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101) You only die twice
Author
Series
The Genius Files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Coke and Pepsi McDonald continue on their dangerous cross-county road trip, stopping at strange-but-real destinations in the South and facing such perils as an evil Elvis impersonator, a vat of acidic soda, and a giant recycling shredder"--
102) Killing rain
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
103) Without fail
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by the Secret Service to test their shield around the new vice president of the United States, ex-military cop Jack Reacher discovers that a team of assassins is already planning a hit on the vice president.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reformed from his days as a covert operative and assassin for the U.S. government, Paul Janson has a new mission and a new partner. Working independently with highly-skilled sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, Janson only takes operations that contribute to the world's greater good. When his latest job rescuing a doctor abducted in international waters by African pirates goes haywire, Janson realizes he's caught in the middle of something much bigger.
105) By Any Other Name
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
460 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1593. Sixteen-year-old Will Hughes is busy working on Shakespeare's stage, stuffing his corsets with straw and pretending to be someone else. Offstage, he's playing a part too. The son of traitors, Will is desperate to keep his identity secret--or else risk being killed int the bloody queen's imperial schemes. All he wants is to lie low until he earns enough coin to return to his family.
But when his mentor, the famous playwright Christopher...
106) Rain storm
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
341p. 25cm.
Language
English
107) Julius Caesar
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Julius Caesar is a marked man. Adoring commoners celebrate his battlefield victories, but those higher up the Roman political ladder worry that his ambition has grown too large. On a stormy night full of alarming sights and ominous portents, Cassius persuades Caesar's friend Brutus to help him with a momentous task: assassinate Caesar for the good of the Republic. But death doesn't stop Caesar, whose spirit haunts the destinies of his friends and...
108) John Wick, chapter 2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
In this next chapter following the 2014 hit, legendary hit man John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.
"John Wick: Chapter 2 is a somewhat more distanced affair. But it's still an impressively dizzying symphony of carnage."--Village...
109) The murder sorority
Author
Series
NYPD red mystery volume 7
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. Join the NYPD Red team in their most explosive case ever. The series from James Patterson and Marshall Karp has always been a must-read. But Karp's latest, NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority, tops them all, making it a must-read-now! Lower Manhattan: A sniper's bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has...
110) The spy of Venice
Author
Series
A William Shakespeare novel volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seeking his fortune in sixteenth-century London, young wordsmith William Shakespeare joins a band of players before he is dispatched to Venice on an assignment that renders him the target of Catholic assassins and a shadowy killer.
111) License to thrill
Author
Series
The Genius Files volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Tween twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald have finally reached the last leg of their wacky and dangerous cross-country road trip, but they must fend off a host of strange assassins before they reach their home in California"--
112) 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...
113) Geiger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The landline rings as Agneta is waving off her grandchildren. Just one word comes out of the receiver: 'Geiger'. For decades, Agneta has always known that this moment would come, but she is shaken. She knows what it means. Retrieving her weapon from its hiding place, she attaches the silencer and creeps up behind her husband before pressing the barrel to his temple.Then she squeezes the trigger and disappears--leaving behind her wallet and keys....
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
34 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In graphic novel format, follows the adventures of Nickolas Flux as he travels back in time to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and joins the hunt for John Wilkes Booth"-- Provided by publisher.
115) From Texas with love
Author
Series
The Genius Files volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The wackiest road trip in history continues as the McDonald twins travel the Southwest dodging nefarious villains and visiting weird but true American landmarks"--
116) The lost heir
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tsunami, heir to the SeaWing throne, is returning home for the first time since she was stolen as an egg, her mother, Queen Coral, welcomes her, but a mysterious assassin has been killing off her heirs for years.
117) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
Author
Series
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond's illustrious career and the formation of his identity"--From the publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Throne of glass volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
As the royal assassin to an evil king, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien must decide what she will fight for--survival, love, or the future of a kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Expanded paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing...