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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...
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...
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,...
5) 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.
6) 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...
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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...
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
Language
English
Description
"The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more frightening was that they committed their crime under...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Matters of succession lead to attempted murder in the latest of Greeley's popular mysteries.
Archbishop Malachi Nolan has designs on the Diocese of Chicago despite the fact the Most Reverend Blackwood Ryan, himself recently appointed an archbishop, is currently in line for the post. Assigned to keep watch on his rival, Blackie travels to the Nolan family estate in Grand Banks, where he soon finds himself immersed in an entirely different dynastic...
12) Espresso shot
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi is hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for her ex-husband's upcoming wedding to magazine editor Breanne Summour, a difficult task that is complicated by a series of fatal "accidents" targeting people close to Breanne.
13) The search
Author
Language
English
Description
Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Alicia is a tech giant, wealthy beyond compare. Kelly is a stay-at-home mother and Stanford legacy. Maren makes three: single, broke, and out of place among the rich and elite. All their daughters are natural choices for Stanford: except the school can only recommend one student. As the competition heats up, an attempt is made on one of the girl's lives and the community spirals into panic. Now the mothers have to decide if one of them is capable...
15) TailSpin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is able to save himself and psychologist Dr. Timothy MacLean after their plane crashes in Parlow, Kentucky, where they stumble upon Rachael Abbott, a woman with a shocking secret who is running from an unknown enemy and helps Crowne and Dr. MacLean outsmart the people who will stop at nothing to keep the doctor from revealing what he knows about a political scandal that could destroy the government.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is able to save himself and psychologist Dr. Timothy MacLean after their plane crashes in Parlow, Kentucky, where they stumble upon Rachael Abbott, a woman with a shocking secret who is running from an unknown enemy and helps Crowne and Dr. MacLean outsmart the people who will stop at nothing to keep the doctor from revealing what he knows about a political scandal that could destroy the government.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife...
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