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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this “thoroughly gripping” (New York Times) continuation of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. • Also known as the Millennium series
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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
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Manhattan private detective Leonid McGill, not quite accustomed to his commitment to the straight and narrow, cannot say no when Alphonse Rinaldo, New York City's ultimate fixer, asks him to run uptown and check on a young woman, and he is not surprised when he walks into a murder scene that makes him a prime suspect in the eyes of the police, and determines to find the now-missing girl and learn the truth about what is really going on.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact. For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe....In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances, and secrets deals of some of America's top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn't...
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Language
English
Description
The Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the past thirty years. From Jimmy Hoffa purportedly being buried somewhere beneath the end zone in Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, through allegations of a thoroughly corrupt medical and dental university, through Mafia influence at all levels, to a governor who suddenly declares himself a "gay...
13) The 500: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mike Ford turned himself around and worked his way into Harvard Law School. Now he is employed by the Davies Group, Washington's most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm that specializes in pulling strings and peddling influence for the people who really run Washington. Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of power and corruption, Mike struggles to find his way out.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
19) Eclipse
Author
Language
English
Description
An American lawyer takes on the defense of an African freedom fighter, charged by his corrupt government with the murder of three oil workers.
20) Borderline
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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