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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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A former First Lady dies, and the world's richest and most powerful figures gather for her funeral in New York City. When a ruthless madman hijacks the ceremony and threatens to turn the memorial service into a bloodbath, Detective Michael Bennett may be the only hope for ending the desperate stand-off.
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Edward Lane runs a highly illegal, highly profitable soldiers-for-hire operation, so he will pay any amount to get his beautiful wife and child back from their kidnappers. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.
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New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman delivers a riveting thriller starring LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. Murder hits close to home as the brother-in-law of Decker's half-brother is found dead in a seedy hotel room. Missing from the scene is the dead man's 15 year-old-niece. Pete finds the girl in the last place anyone would think to look, and soon devastating family secrets emerge.
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In 2059 New York City, Lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to balance her professional life with her private demons, but the two worlds collide when a ghost from Eve's childhood appears, Eve is once against thrown into the horrors of her past, which now threaten everything Eve holds dear.
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When gossip columnist Amanda Dart becomes the victim of an anonymous tipster who is faxing scandal sheets about her indiscretions to national media outlets, she enlists the help of New York lawyer and investigator Stone Barrington who rushes to learn the identity of the faxer before the gossip mill turns deadly.
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Romance novelist Nora Roberts, writing as herself and as J.D. Robb, author of futuristic romantic suspense stories, presents two connected tales, the first in which a diamond heist brings together Laine Tavish, the thief's daughter, and insurance investigator Max Gannon, and the second in which their granddaughter, having written a book about the theft in 2059, becomes the target of someone who believes she has the still missing gems.
12) Inside man.
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Universal Pictures
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English
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NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
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Attorney Stone Barrington's life takes an unexpected turn when he travels to a Caribbean island for a yachting vacation only to become involved in the murder trial of Allison Manning, a woman who set sail from the other side of the Atlantic in the company of her husband and arrived in St. Marks without him.
16) The lion
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2010
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Years have passed since anti-terrorist agent John Corey battled Asad Khalil, a deadly Libyan terrorist known as the Lion. Now Khalil has returned to once again terrorize America and to get revenge on Corey. However, Corey is willing to risk everything to eliminate his longtime nemesis.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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New York Metropolitan Transit Authority train dispatcher Walter Garber's must use his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder, the criminal mind that has hijacked the passengers of subway train, Pelham 1-2-3.
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2010
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An electricity-wielding criminal terrorizes New York City and forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is leading the investigation, but Rhyme's determination, despite his physical impairment and his involvement in another high-profile investigation in Mexico, causes conflict within his team.
19) Lush life
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It's 2003, and after eight years downtown, Eric Cash is falling further and further behind in his plans to become an actor. Or a writer. Or a restaurateur. To become anything but what he is--the oldest employee at Café Berkmann. So if the new bartender pissed him off, who could blame him? Ike Marcus had confidence. He had hustle. Most of all, in a neighborhood where thirty is the new fifty, Ike was young. Then one evening a street kid from the "other"...
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