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Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Washington, D.C., police detective Alex Cross becomes caught up in a kidnapping case that may involve Gary Soneji, a teacher at an elite private school who is also a schizophrenic psychopath and serial murderer.
2) Split second
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Series
Language
English
Description
Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over.
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A pandemic 70,000 years in the making ... will change humanity ... forever"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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Following an assassination attempt that wounds the president and kills the president's closest friend, General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who had warned the Secret Service about the attack, initiates an investigation.
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Series
Liam Devlin thrillers volume 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Combines fact and speculation in a fictionalized reconstruction of the events leading up to and including the November 1943 mission of a small force of German paratroopers landed in Britain to capture Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
10) Sandpiper shore
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Series
Harmony Harbor volume 6
Publisher
Forever, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When her fiancee leaves her for her stepmother, who is also stealing her wedding business, Jenna Bell receives help from Logan Gallagher, whom she has had a crush on for years, forcing her to reassess what she wants out of life.
11) Cold dawn
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Series
Black Falls volume 3
Language
English
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The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again, until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Rose is certain that she knows the victim's identity ... and that his death was no accident. Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist's deliberate hand. Another fire killed an arson investigator in California months ago. Nick and Rose haven't seen each other since they shared a single night...
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Series
The Loyal League volume 1
Language
English
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Former slave Elle Burns spies for the Union Army. Malcolm McCall, a detective for Pinkerton's Secret Service, infiltrates a Rebel enclave in Virginia. In addition to their common cause, the two undercover agents share an undeniable attraction to one another.
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Kate Rees novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
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English
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"Ex-Army Ranger sniper Rafe Hendrix leads the Secret Service detail of President Wyetta Johnson. Rafe and Wyetta became close when they served together in Afghanistan and he saved her life during a recon misadventure that cost her a leg. The President's wife visits a D.C. private-school classroom, and Hendrix is on sniper duty when a suicide bomber heads toward the First Lady. Hendrix disobeys a direct order, and an unthinkable disaster unfolds. Though...
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English
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State Secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin. But after weeks of studying her, he finds that Holly Llewellyn's life continues to remain a mystery. Tangled in the controversy swirling around them, David wonders, is it her secrets that fascinate him...or Holly herself? The Five Days of Christmas: Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 16
Language
English
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Entreated by a witness nobody believes to investigate a murder, Maisie Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with devastating implications for Britain's war effort during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
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Language
English
Description
"World War II London: Victoire "Paddy' Bennett walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Naval Intelligence Division, expecting nothing more than a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans, he requests the newlywed Paddy's help. But could doing her duty for king and country come at too great a cost?...
18) Jackdaws
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
D-Day is approaching. They don?t know where or when, but the Germans know it?ll be soon, and for Felicity "Flick" Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain?s most effective operatives in Northern France. She knows that the Germans? ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communications,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite...
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
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