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2) Havoc
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
While trying to avoid insurgent armies in the Central African Republic, geologist Philip Mercer uncovers nuclear secrets and aids Center for Disease Control employee Cali Stowe in her investigation into a village with a high rate of cancer and birth defects.
3) Spartan gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Husband and wife treasure hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo find a World War II U-boat in the swamps in Maryland and end up being pursued by a Russian Persian millionaire who will stop at nothing to get his hands on a bottle the Fargos now hold which was part of Napoleon's Lost Cellar.
5) Lost empire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam and Remi Fargo, the husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, come upon a relic that belongs to a lost Confederate ship while scuba diving in Tanzania, but their discovery conflicts with Mexico's ruling party, the Mexica Tenochca, who wants to find the artifact and prevent a secret from destroying the party.
6) The kingdom
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are contacted by a Texas oil baron who wants them to help search for her father and the missing investigator she already sent looking for him, and the Fargos agree, sending them on a journey through Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China.
8) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
9) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the...
10) Vertical run
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Dave Elliot, a New York executive and former soldier, finds himself in danger one day when he discovers that his family, colleagues, and friends have hired mercenaries to find and kill him.
12) Lunatics
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Formats
Description
One of the authors is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of... Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots. One character, Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on...
13) On borrowed time
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Kilmer's fiancée, Jennifer Ryan, disappears after Richard loses control of his car and the car rolls, and after neither Richard nor the police can find her, he finds that no one in his life will confirm her existence and all traces of her have disappeared.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover a plot targeting millions of victims.
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
16) Found money
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Single mother Amy Parkens teams up with small-town physician Ryan Duffy in an attempt to discover the source of their unexpected financial windfalls.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Disgraced primate behaviorist Dr. Sara Pollard agrees to join an anti-whaling expedition on the ship Black Anemone to record the Japanese killing of whales only to have her ship be attacked by an intelligent whale.
18) Black light
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Bob Lee Swagger, who served as a Marine sniper in Vietnam, has forsaken violence, retiring to the Arizona desert with his wife and child. However, when questions are raised about the murder of Swagger's dad in a shoot-out forty years ago, he is drawn once again into a life-threatening nightmare.
19) The cat's table
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Michael, now an adult, recalls the three-week long sea voyage he took as a boy in the early 1950s to meet his mother. During the trip across the Indian Ocean the boy meets a variety of characters on board.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their teammates on the NUMA Special Assignments team get caught up in the ambitions of an African dictator when they are sent in to investigate the scene on the Eastern Atlantic near Azores where a Japanese cargo ship inexplicably burst into flames and attempt to decipher what the incident has to do with the disappearance of a top scientist from Geneva.
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