Scott Brick
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Pub. Date
2017
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Jack Ryan, Jr. is going out on an ordinary audit. Hendley and Associates, the investment firm that acts as cover for The Campus is looking to invest in a German company. Along for the ride is David Kraft a back office employee who will help run numbers, but is mostly useful to help carry Jack's bags. But all isn't what it seems. Kraft has a secret past. One that may be very much closer to the surface than it first appears, and one that has put both...
242) Canticle
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Psalms of Isaak volume 2
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The noble allies of General Rudolfo gather for a feast in honor of his first child, a celebration that is attacked by invisible assassins who murder all of the guests and deliver an ominous message for the Hidden Pope Petronus.
243) Sisterhood of Dune
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Series
Dune novels. Schools of Dune volume 1
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Decades after the Battle of Corrin destroys the thinking machines and establishes Faykan Butler as the first Imperium Emperor, war hero Vor turns his back on political descendants who blame him for their downfall while Gilbertus Albans hides an unbelievable secret and the Butlerian movement sweeps through the known universe intent on destroying technology.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"1985. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer—invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly...
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A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. Assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr., and his fellow Campus agents precious time. President Jack Ryan is faced with the continuing international stalemate with North Korea. A young, untested dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock, and he hangs his plans on...
246) Mystic River
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
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Boyhood trauma returns to haunt the lives of several men when the daughter of one of them is murdered and another, now a homicide detective, takes the case.
247) Radiant Angel
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John Corey novels volume 7
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When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late?
248) Slaughter
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Series
Frank Quinn novel volume 10
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A PI pieces together a serial killer's bloody puzzle in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from the New York Times—bestselling author of Frenzy.
Frank Quinn was once New York City's top homicide detective-until a setup forced him into early retirement. Now running his own detective agency, he assists the NYPD on some of their most disturbing cases...
A woman's body is found in Central Park drained of blood, dismembered, and reassembled. Her killer...
249) Devil's Gate
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Series
NUMA files volume 9
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
The “spine-tingling adventures” (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala continue as the NUMA® crew teams up with a beautiful Russian agent in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
NUMA Special Assignment Team leader Kurt Austin, and his right-hand man, Joe Zavala, are looking forward to a submersible race to test out their prototype Barracuda, in an effort to enjoy their own special...
NUMA Special Assignment Team leader Kurt Austin, and his right-hand man, Joe Zavala, are looking forward to a submersible race to test out their prototype Barracuda, in an effort to enjoy their own special...
250) Namath: a biography
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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Presents a biography of Joe Namath, discussing his early life and family in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, his school athletic career, his success as a quarterback for the New York Jets, his rise to the status of pop culture icon, and his later years as devoted family man.
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Series
Dirk Pitt Novel volume Book 25
Pub. Date
2019.
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The murders of a U.N. science team in El Salvador, a deadly collision in the Detroit waterways and an attack on the Nile are linked to the ancient story of a fugitive Egyptian princess.
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"Even though he's on forced leave from the clandestine intelligence group known as The Campus, Jack Ryan, Jr., still finds himself caught in the crosshairs after an attempt on his life is thwarted when he turns the tables on his would-be dispatcher. Convinced that the attack is linked to his recent covert actions with the convalescing Iranian national Ysabel Kashini, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead -- and why."--from publisher's description....
253) Xenocide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become
254) Patriot games
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 31
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While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous ment.
255) The Renegades
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Pub. Date
p2012
Description
Drawing strong comparisons to New York Times best-selling authors Tom Clancy and Stephen Coonts, former Air National Guardsman Tom Young is a rising star in military suspense. The Renegades reunites Afghan Air Force adviser Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson and his interpreter, Sergeant Major Sophia Gold, for a mission in Afghanistan. Following a devastating earthquake in the region, Parson and Gold find their aid and rescue efforts strained when...
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Jaguar stones volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his friend Lola, the Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle, race against time to outwit the twelve villainous Lords of Death, following the trail of the conquistadors into a forgotten land steeped in legend and superstition.
257) The First Counsel
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Young White House attorney Michael Garrick becomes enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy when he gets too close to Nora Harston, the president's sexy daughter, and finds himself on the run, accused of a murder he did not commit.
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Pub. Date
p2010
Description
No One Would Listen is now going paperback. This is the story of Harry Markopolos, the whistleblower who discovered that crimes against investors were being committed by Bernie Madoff, who’s Ponzi Scheme would ultimately become the biggest and longest-running financial investment fraud in history. Madoff's impact, both financially on individuals and institutions, continues to send shockwaves across the financial system and represents a major failure...
259) God emperor of Dune
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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Leto II, God Emperor of Dune, trades his humanity for immortality. As the despotic sandworm of Dune, he desperately attempts to save humankind, in spite of a rising rebellion led by Siona, a member of the Atreides, who is unaware of her own destined role in preserving the future.
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"Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team, the Grizzlies, with a rabid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical....