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1) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated...
2) Tartuffe
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The most gifted visual storyteller of the German silent era, F.W. Murnau crafted works of great subtlety and emotional complexity through his absolute command of the cinematic medium. Known for such dazzling films as Nosferatu (1922), The last laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), Murnau was also drawn to more intimate dramas exploring the dark corners of the human mind. In Tartuffe, he revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Deep in the forest, a man and woman have been brutally attacked in a cabin and left to die. Arriving too late, Kang (Gam Woo-sung - R-Point) chases the killer only to be hit by a speeding car. Barely surviving surgery, he now finds himself a prime suspect in the double murder case. He cannot shake the feeling that there are strange gaps in his memory regarding the night in question and the killer's identity. While a police investigation sets out to...
Author
Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life--or she definitely used to. Now she's the subject of a true crime podcast. She's been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she's dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands "Find Dunia!" In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she's coping with a broken engagement...
5) Taking Chase
Author
Series
Chase brothers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Previously published; newly refreshed by author.
The Chase boys. Ridiculously hot and notoriously single.
Sheriff Shane Chase is drawn to the new girl in town from the moment he lays eyes on her. Not only is she gorgeous, but years on the job have taught him to know when someone is hiding something. And Cassie Gambol is hiding something big. He's willing to take it slow to find out her secrets, no matter how much he burns to make her his.
Cassie...
7) Manalive
Author
Language
English
Description
This audacious allegory transforms the old rule about judging a book by its cover into entertainment of the highest order A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. Seeking shelter from a storm of biblical proportions, a mysterious new tenant by the name of Innocent Smith arrives on the doorsteps of Beacon...
Author
Series
Three Pines mystery volume 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident,...
9) After
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.
10) Fast track
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Family secrets and a hidden past-a woman's search to uncover the truth ignites danger and passion in the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood. Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl-her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels when...
11) Crystal gardens
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After novelist and professional companion Evangeline Ames was attacked in the London streets, she rents a cottage in Little Dixby, sensing paranormal energy in the nearby Crystal Gardens and being comforted by it she goes there when she feels threatened. There she meets the owner Lucas Sebastian and the two find that they may have a common enemy.
12) Under the Gun
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A good agent never lets the job become personal ... Who wanted her dead? That's what Claire Samson wanted to know. On the run and alone, there was only one man she trusted to find her. Recovery agent Luke Hathaway was the best at locating and saving, and she needed the best if she wanted to live. But the handsome agent who promised salvation had some conditions of his own. If he were to help, she needed to stick close by his side. Very close. And...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Finding out she is heir to a fortune shocks Caroline Tully to her core. And to "qualify" for the inheritance, she just has to visit her newfound grandfather's Mississippi home from Christmas to New Year's. Adopted as a baby, Caroline knows nothing about her mother's family ... and doesn't realize they can't be trusted. When attempts are made on her life, there's only one man who can protect her. Donovan Cavanaugh -- a man who made her lonely heart...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"USA TODAY Bestselling Author Someone framed Everleigh Emerson. And now they'll stop at nothing to kill her... Everleigh Emerson just escaped wrongful conviction for murder. That doesn't mean she's safe. After Clarke Colton witnesses an attempt on her life, the PI convinces Everleigh to let him help her -- even if it means pretending to be her boyfriend. Everleigh trusts that Clarke wants to catch the killer who's after her. But can she trust the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard...
17) Distress Signal
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A perilous reunion at sea sparks currents of passion-and peril-for former lovers in this pulse-pounding romance from the USA Today–bestselling author.
When shipwreck archaeologist Cora Strand is attacked and the research boat she's on explodes, her ex comes to her rescue. Years ago, Kirk Higgins forfeited her heart, and now with no memory of who attacked her, Cora must trust him with her life. But at the risk of blowing his cover, can the NCIS...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Relates how Debora Green, a physician and mother of three, was convicted of poisoning her husband, Michael Farrar, and setting the fire that killed two of their children in 1995.
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Her brother was murdered.
Will she be next?
While searching for proof that her brother’s death was no accident, Lilah Schwartz is almost killed by a sniper in her Amish community. Hiding in Levi Burkholder’s barn is all that keeps her alive. The former soldier will do everything in his power to protect Lilah, but can he and Lilah uncover the evidence her brother hid before she’s the next to die?
From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger....
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
NO WAY OUT The last thing Benjamin Duff needs is to be stranded at his friend Piper Lawrence's bed-and-breakfast with a dangerous intruder. But when he stops to say goodbye before moving across the world, he finds a masked man attacking Piper. Benjamin rushes to save her, crashing his truck and trapping them during a winter storm in the process. With no power or cell phones and time running out before his trip, he'll have to work fast to catch the...
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