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61) Wanted
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen [ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing - that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...
Author
Series
Rogues and remarkable women volume 01
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune and her freedom. Then The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. A wounded military hero, Busick is determined to resolve his dead cousin's dangerous financial dealings for Lionel's...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who will stop at nothing to save his daughter tracks a psychopathic killer who is protected by a 250-year-old secret organization that uses theft, bribery, forgery and murder to acquire the world's greatest works of art.
64) 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,...
65) 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.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When several people are burned to death during the theft of a religious artifact, Gray Pierce, a new member of the U.S. SIGMA force, pursues a clandestine fraternity of alchemists who would use the artifact to establish a new world order.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capturea reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the...
69) Girls in charge
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
196 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jemma, Piper, and Kate prepare for their graduation from the eighth grade, a situation that is challenged by a classmate's problem with a bully, a question about who sent Jemma a Valentine's Day carnation, and seventh-grade candidates for their Pink Locker Society positions.
70) Best kept secret
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 160 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As members of a secret society, Emma, Piper, and Kate help other middle school girls by answering their questions, but can their friendship survive when Piper secretly asks Forrest (Jemma's crush) to the annual Backwards Dance?
71) Drop in
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Omar Grebes and his friend Tommy Goff are both reckless skateboarders, but when they become involved with a mysterious organization called The Revolution, things get confusing and dangerous.
72) Smells like dog
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
360 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When farm boy Homer Pudding's explorer-uncle dies and leaves him a droopy dog with a mysterious coin hidden on its collar, it leads him to The City, where they meet Madame La Directeur, the conniving head of the Natural History Museum, who is trying to steal the coin and take Homer's place in a secret society of adventurers.
73) Fugitive six
Author
Series
Lorien legacies reborn volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her friends from the Human Garde Academy saved her from mysterious abductors, Taylor uncovers a mole from a secret organization within the school that is orchestrating the disappearance of other teens with special abilities.
74) 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...
75) Quicksilver
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Historical romance novel featuring the Arcane Society, second in The Looking Glass Trilogy"--
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other."--
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An unusual statue leads the Alden siblings to the Reddimus Society, a secret guild dedicated to returning lost treasures to where they belong, and soon the Aldens find themselves traveling across the country with six mysterious boxes.
Author
Series
Secret zoo volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having discovered a magical society beneath the exhibits at the Clarksville City Zoo where animals and humans live harmoniously together as equals, Noah and his friends must protect the secret zoo at all costs.
Author
Series
An invisible library novel volume 5
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a dragon is murdered at a peace conference, time-traveling librarian spy Irene must solve the case to keep the balance between order, chaos … and the Library.
Author
Series
Copernicus legacy volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
423 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly from Texas to Germany for the funeral of an old family friend. But instead of just paying their respects, they wind up on a dangerous, mind-blowing quest to unlock an ancient, guarded secret that could destroy the fate of the world"--