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21) Close to home
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy and the only people she can rely on to make it out alive might be those she can no longer trust"--
22) Magisterium
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, Glennora Morgan's father has been working on a project that will allow him to penetrate the Rift border and retrieve Glennora's mother; but now that he has succeeded the Authority is suddenly trying to kill them both, and Glennora and her friend Kevin must flee into the Magisterium to escape them.
24) Vanish
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Gabriel Dean rushes into action to protect his pregnant wife, homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, when she is taken hostage along with others at the hospital by Nicholas Tennant, a black-ops agent in possession of high-level government secrets.
25) No plan B
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 27
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. The plan: It's coming Fall 2022. No Plan B. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts. One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what actually happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving...
26) Deception point
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. The victim's name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little -- only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but -- described as quiet and kempt -- she doesn't appear to be a fallen woman....
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When they uncover a conspiracy against America and its fundamental freedoms, the Kidd children, accompanied by their great uncle, crisscross the country in a race to prove that a newly-discovered copy of the Bill of Rights is a forgery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this 13th Reacher novel, the former military police major and notorious drifter Jack Reacher grows suspicious of a fellow subway passenger as their train approaches Grand Central Station in New York City. As a shady situation develops, Reacher debates between intervening to save surrounding lives or avoiding the predicament in order to save his own. He confronts a suicide bomber on the nearly deserted Manhattan subway car--a confrontation that...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a dangerous adventure has him traveling up and down the coast, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some down time at his Manhattan abode. But when an acquaintance alerts him to a suspicious plot being hatched across the city, he finds himself eager to pursue justice. After the mastermind behind it all proves more evasive than anyone was expecting, Stone sets out on an international chase to places he's never gone before. With the help of...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional,...
33) Flash Point
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
To stop an unseen enemy from destroying the Campus, Jack Ryan Jr. is led to the South China Sea where he, after a midair collision serves as a flash point, must put the pieces of a conspiracy together to stop the world's two remaining super powers from going to war.
Jack Ryan Jr. is in a world of trouble. When a benign surveillance operation takes a deadly turn, Jack finds himself locked in a struggle with an unseen enemy bent on destroying the...
34) Enemy contact
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr's race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend... The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how or why. Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone-or something-they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew race to identify a link between an ancient Egyptian treasure, a 1927 daredevil aviator's disappearance and the sinking of a modern fishing trawler to prevent a scheme by a cutthroat arms dealer."--
Author
Series
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 17
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The aftermath of a shocking crime sends Jack Ryan, Jr., down a path that leads to international destruction in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he'll be damned...
Author
Series
A Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 9
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Ryan, Jr. is the one man who can prevent a second Korean War in the latest thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series"--
39) Smokescreen
Author
Series
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 25
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
40) The sentinel
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 25
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway. But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instinctual lizard brain: A voice in his head telling him to walk away. Of course, this wouldn't be the first...