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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she's a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad's multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she's considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she's stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé--a fellow VP--on the other side of her...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A newly belligerent Chinese government leaves US President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy series. Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggresive challenge from the Chinese government. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer and a storm tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
185) The Saboteurs
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2020.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Isaac Bells wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda, one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building...
186) A Merciful promise
Author
Series
Mercy Kilpatrick novels volume 6
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She's near the compound. And having been raised among survivalists, Mercy understands the mind-set of fanatics. She's ready to blend in. As Mercy disappears into the winter hills, something just as foreboding emerges. Mercy's fiance, Eagle's Nest police chief Truman Daly, is faced with a puzzling...
187) Sparring partners
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 3.5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
188) The thicket
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
None of it was supposed to be real. The screams, The monsters. The blood. So Norah Lewis ignored her brother's screams. Just like everyone else at the Thicket. Management is quick to dismiss the incident as an isolated tragedy, promising heightened security and a new "no masks" policy. Parents' groups lobby for a shutdown while thrill seekers--including many of Norah's classmates--clamor for a chance to visit the notorious "real" haunted attraction....