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Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly...
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and...
3) Good water
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
311 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tommy Reeves and his pal Red Armstrong make friends with the Mexican people who live near the ranch where they work. Their foreman tells them to stay away from the Mexican girls, but the boys do not heed the warning and are fired. Then they find out that Vinch Cushman, their former employer, is trying to force the Mexican people off their land by damming the creek that supplies their water. When Red goes to sabotage the dam, he is shot dead. Tommy...
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone -- an elusive spy -- is orchestrating the destruction...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 35
Language
English
Description
When he’s apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure. But from the start the trip seems to be cursed, plagued by suspicious “accidents” and unfortunate events, and some of Stone’s plans go up in flames — literally. Not a believer in coincidence, Stone sets out to learn the true source of his curious misfortune and finds that what...
Author
Series
Mark Beamon thrillers volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend, when an oil company executive makes a surprise visit. Some important Saudi oil wells have stopped producing and Erin is the world's foremost expert in analyzing and preventing oil field disasters. As far as he's concerned, he has left that world behind -- not his problem. Homeland Security, however, sees things differently. Erin quickly finds himself...
Author
Series
The menagerie volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Logan and Zoe's efforts to identify a saboteur are complicated by the unchecked activities of the kraken and the agenda of Logan's famous tracker mother.
Author
Series
Private volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two years ago Jack Morgan -- the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private -- was in charge of security for the World Cup in Brazil. During the championship final, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his team averted disaster on football's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious as Jack discovers that...
10) The fallen angel
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When last we encountered Gabriel Allon in Portrait of a Spy, he was pitted in a blood-soaked duel with a deadly network of jihadist terrorists. Now, exposed and war-weary, he has returned to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece for the Vatican. But while working early one morning in the conservation laboratory, Gabriel is summoned to Saint Peter's Basilica by his friend and occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
vii, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct......
13) Action!
Author
Series
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
138 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nancy investigates when she stars in a movie which is mysteriously sabotaged by a fire.
Author
Series
Culhane family romances volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan. Kate's plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 12
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
�2012
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed...
17) Harsh times
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
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