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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, discussing how actor John Wilkes Booth and his fellow Confederate sympathizers hatched their murderous plot, and following the ensuing manhunt, trials, and executions of the conspirators.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly...
3) F/X
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2000, c1986
Language
English
Description
Rollie Tyler, the best special effects artist in Hollywood, is hired by the Justice Department to stage the assassination of an important underworld witness. After the illusion is pulled off successfully, Rollie himself is pinned for the murder. Double-crossed and now hunted by those who hired him, the New York City Police Department, and the mob, Rollie learns that he can trust no one, and that the only thing that can save his life is his unequaled...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Burbank, Calif
Language
English
Description
Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon travel to England to find out who killed Chon's father. The killer steals the Chinese Imperial Seal that Chon's father was protecting. While they are in England, they stumble upon a conspiracy to murder the entire British royal family. Only with the help of Chon's beautiful, but deadly sister, can the trio stop the assassination and return the Imperial Seal to its rightful owners.
7) Red
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer is forced to return to Los Angeles when it becomes apparent that the only four people who know he is still alive are being systemically targeted for assassination. The assassinations coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty between Russia and the U.S., leading Jack to suspect a link between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists.
11) The Target
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The next blockbuster thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, featuring assassin Will Robie"--
12) Shiri
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
Korean
Description
A phantom sniper is methodically assassinating key figures in a South Korean intelligence investigation. Special agent Ryu and his partner Lee suspect North Korea's most lethal female operative, Hee, as being responsible. When a security breach prompts the theft of a high-tech liquid explosive, CTX, from the South Korean authorities, Ryu and Lee are certain there's a mole within their ranks.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1951
Language
English
Description
Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered. He is given a choice: either face a horrible death by...
14) 11/22/63
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When English teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past he decides to use it to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Justice Department operative Cotton Mather foils an attempt to assassinate President Danny Daniels in Manhattan, and finds himself at odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates dating back to the American Revolution that wields unstoppable power thanks to a clause written into the U.S. Constitution.
16) Vantage point
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States.
17) Angel has fallen
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When there is an assassination attempt on US President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the president. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trenton, New Jersey's favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he's out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in.
19) Lust, caution
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Bourne, nearly killed in an ambush in Indonesia, assumes a new identity and recommences his quest to learn who he really is, but when an American passenger jet is shot down over Egypt by what appears to be an Iranian missile, he joins a global team, led by Soraya Moore, to investigate the attack and possibly prevent another world war.
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