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61) The runaway king
Author
Series
Ascendance trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
63) The Forgetting
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
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Language
English
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Jack Reacher proves the truth of the old adage about the dangers of a man with nothing to lose when he walks the twelve miles between the towns of Hope and Despair looking for a cup of coffee only to encounter hostility, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Loyola University. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam. When President Ryan discovers a voicemail on his private cell phone from the priest, warning about a coming attack against America, he is desperate to rescue his...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hidden: "After being rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the test when he searches for his missing teenage cousin - and uncovers a government conspiracy in the process"--Provided by publisher.
Malicious: "Mitchum's brother has been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife....
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With a foreword by Rex Bradford and a preface by Bill Simpich: From deep within American society emerged the plot that killed a president Beneath the orderly façade of the American government lies a complex network, only partly structural, linking Wall Street influence, corrupt bureaucracy, and the military-industrial complex. Here lies the true power of the American empire: This behind-the-scenes web is unelected, unaccountable, and immune to popular...
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Language
English
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Description
Attorney Tom Byrne is hired by the United Nations to placate the family of an old man shot by security staff who suspected he was a suicide bomber, but when Byrne meets the victim's daughter, he learns the man was not so innocent after all, and he soon finds himself caught up in the last great secret of World War II and running from people who do not want it revealed.
Author
Series
Dreamland volume 16
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Is there a traitor at Dreamland? When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland's drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored to be involved, as is Russia. But finding out who's really bankrolling the guerrillas means finding someone who knows combat UAVs inside and out. Someone with...
71) The commuter
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
While on his train commute home, an insurance salesman finds himself swept up in a criminal conspiracy.
72) Absolute Risk
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
" Absolute Risk is the work of a talented writer who knows how to hook his readers from the opening line.---Richard North Patterson, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Witness A new star in the thriller firmament, Steven Gore brings back investigator Graham Gage for a second assignment (after Final Target) -- as Gage and his wife are caught up in the lethal machinations of a w orldwide financial plot rooted in China. Absolute Risk, like its...
73) 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...
74) Burn factor
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Language
English
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Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn
Bright, young, and ambitious, Quinn Barry desperately wants to be an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. But Quinn's career -- and her life -- are about to change wildly. Testing a new program, Quinn's computer savvy turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders. A link that the old FBI system had been carefully programmed...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Repairman Jack must find a way to negotiate the shadowy world of conspiracy when he is hired to find Melanie Ehler, a woman who disappeared shortly after announcing her plans to unveil her Grand Unification Theory, leaving behind a cryptic message that only Jack could find her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young journalist uncovers what might be the world's biggest conspiracy-if only he can prove it For years, Chi Sandwith has written about things like alien abductions, puppet masters, and brainwashing. He's not a "conspiracy theorist" though-he's a serious journalist and a seeker of the Truth. When Chi meets a man who claims to be a former secret agent, it looks like evidence of a huge conspiracy has landed right in the reporter's lap. But can...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ren is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape. When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes...
79) Julius Caesar
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragic tale of power, politics, friendship, and betrayal in ancient Rome. Julius Caesar is basking in the glow of military triumph -- but his friend Brutus has fallen in with a band of conspirators who argue that Caesar's ambitions may soon cast a pall of tyranny over Rome's people. Torn, Brutus finally agrees to pick up a knife and join in assassinating Caesar on the Ides of March. His act is driven by a fear of dictatorship and a desire...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service and secret organizations that are plotting against each other, perpetrating conspiracies...
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