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61) Soldier
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ember stands with Riley and his band of rogue dragons, instead of becoming an assassin for Talon. Meanwhile, she's lost contact with her twin brother Dante, as well as with Garret, a former-enemy soldier who challenged her beliefs about her human side.
62) See how they run
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder, Grace has made herself a target and must be very careful which secrets she reveals.
Author
Series
Caladan volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. She has already betrayed her ancient order, but now she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than the...
65) Four dead queens
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
413 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Keralie is the best pickpocket in all of the kingdoms of Quadara, but when she steals a "comm disk" and realizes a royal murder plot is afoot, she must learn who to trust and fast.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city's security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed? Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly-minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Eager to serve her country and prove her worth,...
67) Long range
Author
Series
A Joe Pickett novel volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recently elected President Richard Monroe--populist, controversial, and divisive--is at the center of an increasingly polarized Washington, DC. Never has the partisan drama been so tense or the paranoia so rampant. In the midst of contentious political turf wars, the White House chief of staff is found dead in his house. A tenacious intern discovers a single, ominous clue that suggests he died from something other than natural causes, and that a wide-ranging...
69) The 14th colony
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain--in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos. Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before...
Author
Series
Isaac Bell volume 12
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister-in-arms before her time--and that of the newly crowned queen--runs out.
72) Shadow target
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
322 p.
Language
English
Description
"Someone is assassinating CIA field officers and Jake Keller's name is next on the list in the latest thrilling novel from the author Publishers Weekly calls "a fresh voice in the crowded spy-thriller field." Jake doesn't know who is trying to kill him and he doesn't know why, but it's a threat he can't ignore. When his small plane crashes in the Alps, Jake is the only survivor. A rescue helicopter soon arrives, but the men inside are not there to...
73) Royal flush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
With its posh clientele gone to the country, Lady Georgiana's fledgling housecleaning business has fizzled. When her friend's suggestion that she hire herself out as a dinner-and-theatre companion ends in disaster, the penniless heiress is shipped home to Castle Rannoch. There she will honor her promise to Her Majesty to keep their American houseguest Mrs. Simpson from seducing the Prince of Wales and help Scotland Yard with a top secret mission.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, has set her sights on one of history's most beguiling mysteries: Did Anastasia Romanov survive the Russian Revolution, or was Anna Anderson, the woman who notoriously claimed her identity, an impostor? Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they...
75) Cold frame
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An American government official dies suddenly in a Washington restaurant, but the coroner cannot determine a cause of death. When a second bureaucrat dies, Metro detective Av Smith discovers that both were members of a committee known only as DMX. DMX operates in total secrecy, and its mission is to target foreign terrorists for elimination. Detective Smith is determined to pursue both murder cases, even if it means butting heads with Carl Mandeville,...
76) Extreme prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of...
77) The golden gate
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs....
78) The rogue crown
Author
Series
Five crowns of Okrith volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 p.
Language
English
Description
"Determined to uncover who killed the Western Queen, fae warrior Briata Catullus sets out on a mission to defeat the witch hunters and safeguard her princess. But when she arrives at the Western Court, things are even worse than she feared. The icy reception from the fae is the least of her problems--they've heard the prophecy that Bri will seize the crown from its sovereign, and the last thing they want is for her to usurp the throne. No, the witch...
80) The hit
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.