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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at his office most of the blame falls to Dr. Lou Welcome, who counseled Meacham years before when his medical license was revoked but when Welcome begins to investigate the incident he finds evidence that leads directly to the White House.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Petty thief John Shannon responds to a mysterious text message and finds a chance at redemption and the opportunity to live a new life, but as he settles into his job, finds love, and starts to be a better man, his past catches up to him and he must choose between the life he gave up and the hope of a bright future.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The seemingly perfect marriage of Illinois senator and presidential aspirant Lyle Simmons is held up to harsh public scrutiny when he arrives home from a fundraiser one night to find his wife, Jeanette, has been brutally murdered, and as Washington D.C. detective Charles Chang looks for answers, Simmons' longtime friend Phil Rotondi, a one-time suitor of Jeanette's, must decide whether or not to reveal what he knows.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Wash-ington, D.C., with the story of an insider's game that turns deadly. Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game. It starts out...
10) Trash
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A group of fourteen-year-old boys, who make a living picking garbage from the outskirts of a large city, finds something special and mysterious that brings terrifying consequences.
11) Borderline
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
As the United Kingdom decides whether or not to remain a member of the European Union or go its own way in September of 2017, a group of ruthless killers will stop at nothing to keep a shocking secret at the very heart of the government that could change everything in an instant from being revealed.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
It’s been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-seven years in prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous e-mail offering to pay him nearly a quarter of a million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked.
14) The run: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Senator Will Lee finds his family, career, and life threatened by a dangerous campaign for the U.S. presidency.
16) Akira
Publisher
Pioneer Entertainment (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2001, c1987
Language
日本語
Description
Set in post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo in 2019, cyberpunk Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. Soon, Tetsuo's supernatural power leads to bloody deaths, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
20) One on the House
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Flat broke at the end of their stay in New York City, Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham can only make it as far as New Jersey on their voyage back home. When they stop by a local bar for something to lift their spirits, they find it in disrepair and the owner in none too better shape himself. As desperate as they are to make it back to San Diego, it's just not in their nature to leave the poor guy there. And if they're going to lend a...
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