George Guidall
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
An international hit man and the head of one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico has kidnapped Walt's beloved daughter, Cady, to auction her off to his worst enemies, of which there are many. The American government is of limited help and the Mexican one even less. Walt heads into the one-hundred-and-ten degree heat of the Northern Mexican desert alone, one man against an army.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp volume 12
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Working his way through a list of hit targets who were responsible for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, assassin Mitch Rapp shoots a drunken Libyan diplomat in Paris only to discover that he has been set up and that his handlers want him permanently silenced.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 17
Language
English
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Description
Gabriel Allon heads to France in search of the shadowy ISIS mastermind known as Saladin and finds unlikely partners in his pursuit in former fashion model Olivia Watson and wealthy drug lord Jean-Luc Martel.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a suspicious commuter plane crash in Los Angeles, police lieutenant Peter Decker investigates the claims of one family that foul play had been involved, a suspicion that gains credibility when a key victim is discovered to be someone else.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the icy waters of the Pacific, a massive humpback whale unexpectedly finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen. When a rescue boat and a convoy of divers arrive to help the struggling humpback, a realistic and moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds.
7) Red war
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he's determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion--war with the West. Upon learning of Krupin's condition, CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The only...
8) Genesis
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from ancestry websites to catch a killer"--
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr., 21 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key founding fathers played significant roles: John Adams, the brilliant, dour New Englander; Thomas Jefferson, the aristocratic Southern renaissance man; and Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis. In this riveting narrative, best-selling author Winston...
10) Land of Wolves
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, in Land of Wolves Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. With unsettling connections to a Basque family with a reputation for removing the legs of Absaroka County sheriffs, matters become even more complicated with...
11) The gunslinger
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roland Deschain pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. He is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. The author sketches in details about the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A long undisturbed bedroom. A startling likeness. A mysterious friend.
When twelve-year-old Prince Lev Lvov goes to live with his aunt at Falcon House, he takes his rightful place as heir to the Lvov family estate. Prince Lev dreams of becoming a hero of Russia like his great ancestors. But he'll discover that dark secrets haunt this house. Prince Lev is the only one who can set them free-will he be the hero his family needs?
This title has Common...
15) Chasing midnight
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
16) Nano
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (12.5 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pia takes a year off from her medical studies to work at Nanobots, a lavish nanotechnology institute that is a leader in the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots than can gobble up viruses and bacteria. But troubling occurrences cause her to wonder: is the tech giant on the cusp of huge medical discoveries, or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
17) Pete's a pizza
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
p2000, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 compact disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book ([32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.)
Language
English
Description
When Pete feels miserable because rain makes it impossible to play ball outdoors, his father finds a fun indoor game to play with his son.
18) Pandemic
Author
Publisher
[Penguin Random House Audio]
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and...
19) Charlatans
Author
Publisher
[Penguin Random House Audio]
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
[10 sound discs (approximately 13 hours)] : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook."
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (9 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire.
The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon...