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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make--return, or submit his resignation. When his deadly past comes calling, though, he'll be left with no choice at all. Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis. It all turns on an incident from...
64) Code red
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...
65) Red rabbit
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
In the early days of his career, Jack Ryan accepts a first assignment as freelance analyst under James Greer of the CIA and faces a mission involving a high-level Soviet defector who has reported a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the techno-thriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan"--
There's a new strong man in Russia, but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past, and the solution to that mystery...
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English
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"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
12 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Animal farm: In this satire of the Russian revolution, Manor Farm is transformed into Animal Farm, a democracy proclaiming, "All animals are created equal." After totalitarian rule is re-established, the reality becomes, "But some animals are more equal than others."
1984: The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwells' prophetic nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 8
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When escalating political tensions between the United States and England put his son, Gary, in the hands of a man with a shadowy and intensely personal agenda, Cotton Malone finds himself confronting a baffling historical mystery that questions the legitimacy of Elizabeth I.
71) Savage road
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
295 p.
Language
English
Description
Hayley Chill descends even deeper into the dangerous political web of Washington D.C. when she seeks the source of devastating cyber attacks against the United States while trying to prevent the president from starting another world war.
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume Book 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
73) Stone cold
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Protecting a con artist from vengeful casino king Jerry Bagger, Oliver Stone and his colleagues at the Camel Club find their efforts further challenged by a ruthless killer who targets Stone by threatening to reveal his mysterious past.
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Language
English
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Sixteen years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their shared experience and devotion...
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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...
76) The Lost Order
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English
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"The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found. Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure--one to...
Author
Series
Dana Cutler volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller rush to uncover a terrorist cell's plot to destroy a packed professional football stadium in one of the biggest attacks on American soil.
78) Animal farm
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Language
English
Description
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced...
79) Power play
Author
Series
Jake Ross volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 p.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue his research. Instead, he finds himself aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician with his eye on the US Senate. Tomlinson is in need of an edge that will allow him to defeat his opponent at the polls, and Dr. Ross can contribute just that: MHD. MHD, or magnetohydrodynamics, is a new innovation...