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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Robert Dubois, an oil burner repairman from New Hampshire, goes to Florida to start a new life and becomes involved in smuggling illegal aliens. Vanise Dorsinville flees Haiti to join an uncle in Florida. Their fates become intertwined in a shattering climax.
2) Crackdown
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Paradise is the perfect escape for ex-Marine Nick Breakspear, captain of a charter yacht operation in the Bahamas, until he agrees to pilot a "detox cruise" for the drug-addled grown son and daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. Ambushed far from port, he is helpless to prevent the murder of a crew member by modern-day pirates who sink Nick's yacht before vanishing with the senator's kids. Having barely eluded death, Nick must immediately set sail...
3) Powder Burn
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen's gripping debut A witness to a gangland murder must outwit and outrun the vicious hit men on his trail-before it's too late Chris Meadows's charmed life as an up-and-coming architect has kept him far removed from Miami's bloody drug trade. But his comfortable existence comes crashing down around him when Chris witnesses the hit-and-run death of an ex-girlfriend by a car full of drug smuggling gangsters....
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A suspense novel of drugs, love, cyphers, and sailors from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner . A blind Royal Air Force veteran becomes entangled in a high-seas heroin heist in this gripping adventure from one of Britain's most renowned postwar writers. Though Henry cannot see, he is able to view the world through the radio waves, eavesdropping on global affairs and secret transmissions with his mastery of Morse code....
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English
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God, drugs, corruption, and morality come together in this gripping tale of desperation In Gasconade County, Missouri -- once called the meth capital of the world -- Deputy Sheriff Dale Banks discovers $52,000 hidden in the broken-down trailer that Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows what he did was wrong, but he did it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong, there is a consequence....
6) Badger Games
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A criminal couple joins a nefarious underground organization in this novel full of "sharp characterization, vivid scenes, and offbeat humor" ( The Oregonian ). When anyone in the Detroit underworld hears the names Joe Service and Helen Sedlacek, they know lots of trouble -- and bullet-riddled bodies -- are sure to follow. That's why Joe and Helen are perfect recruits for the Lucani -- a group of rogue operatives, covert intelligence, and cold-blooded...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, delivers another darkly hilarious, heartbreaking coming-of-age novel with Wonder Bread Summer. In The Wonder Bread Summer, loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, 20-year-old Allie Dodgson has adventures that rival those Alice had down the rabbit hole. Or those of Weeds' Nancy Botwin. Allison is working at a dress shop to help pay for college. The dress shop turns out to be a front for drug...
8) Trap Line
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Series
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English
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The gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen-now available as an ebook A Key West fishing captain takes on Florida's drug lords in an underground war that could cost him his freedom-and his life Though he is one of Key West's most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albury barely ekes out a living on the meager earnings of his trade. Meanwhile, Cuban and Colombian drug smugglers thrive all around-and they have their sights...
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two timeless stories from the master of romantic suspense NOT WITHOUT RISK It began as a day's pleasure cruise on the crystal-clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But then Emily Marshall stumbled into a deadly maze of drug smuggling and murder-and discovered that the only person who could help her was the man who had once torn her heart to shreds. A sudden and passionate interlude showed Jim Keegan the truth he'd been hiding from for so long. Now he...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love? When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia's future hangs in the balance,...
11) The Ninth Day
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In less than nine days, terror crosses the border... Hiking in Arizona, biochemist Emma Caldridgeinadvertently interrupts the operations ofdangerous traffickers in human cargo-and ischased south into the arms of millionaire drugmerchants. Suddenly a prisoner of Mexico's mostfeared cartel, Emma makes a shocking discoveryin the marijuana fields outside Ciudad Juarez: plants rotting with a flesh-eating toxin that causes a trulyhorrible death within nine...
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English
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ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Contains an excerpt from Don Winslow’s explosive new novel, City on Fire!
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Washington Post • NPR • Financial Times • The Guardian • Booklist • New Statesman • Daily Telegraph • Irish Times • Dallas Morning News • Sunday Times • New York Post
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...13) Act of Valor
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
She saw something she shouldn't have...
A True Blue K-9 Unit story
When airline employee Violet Griffin encounters several suspicious passengers, she's thrust into the crosshairs of a drug smuggling operation. NYPD officer Zach Jameson and his drug detection beagle, Eddie, can tell this is no small-time threat. Someone's gunning for Violet, and after recently losing his brother, Zach refuses to lose her, too...especially now that she's gone...
14) Under Siege
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The thriller from New York Times bestselling thriller author Stephen Coonts--now available as an ebookJake Grafton races against time to extinguish a harrowing terrorist plot in Washington, D.C., and prevent all-out catastrophe from enveloping the nation " When the psychotic Colombian drug lord Chano Aldana is extradited to the United States for trial, he brings his army of vicious mercenaries with him. And as Aldana's hit men target the President...
15) Harlequin Intrigue February 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2: Confessions ; Disarming Detective ; Hard Target
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new edge-of-your-seat romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Intrigue bundle includes Confessions by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Cynthia Eden, Disarming Detective by Elizabeth Heiter and Hard Target by USA TODAY bestselling author Barb Han. Catch a thrill with 6 new edge-of-your-seat romances every month from Harlequin Intrigue!
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of January 2020 "Scalpel sharp."--Kathy Reichs. A young rookie medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming. From the New York Times bestselling authors of Working Stiff For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose...
17) Border Breach
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this inspirational romantic suspense, a Canadian border patrol officer and a cop join forces against drug trafficking and fall in love.
When drugs are smuggled across the border it's their duty to stop the culprits . . . at any cost.
Forming a joint task force, Canada border officer Kaylin Poirier and police constable Hudson Steeves have one objective: take down a drug-smuggling ring trying to sell a new lethal product. But when the smugglers...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
DANGEROUS HOLIDAY HOMECOMING Anchorage K-9 officer Jake Nichols returns home for Christmas to recover from the accident that almost killed him -- and find a little peace and quiet. But those plans are shattered when his childhood friend Rachel Hart gets caught up in a drug-smuggling ring after her aunt is brutally murdered. Jake quickly discovers that Port Aurora is no longer the tranquil little fishing town he left behind. He promises Rachel that...
19) Cage
Author
Series
Reykjavik noir trilogy volume t. 3
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed. Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in...
20) Not Without Risk
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A heart-pounding romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, previously published in 1995. Emily Marshall is enjoying a pleasure cruise on the Gulf of Mexico when she stumbles on a murder and a violent drug-smuggling ring. And the only person she can trust is the man who broke her heart so many years ago, Jim Keegan. Jim had thought he was over Emily-until a passionate encounter a beach house proved him wrong. Now,...
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