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Mitch Rapp novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Washington D.C. is turned upside down when the director of the CIA is found dead and a controversial successor is named, and the Middle East is sent to the brink of war when Israel learns Saddam Hussein is about to enter the nuclear arms race.
Author
Series
Traitor's game volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After three years in exile Kestra Dallisor has been summoned back to Antora by her father, right-hand man of the seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick, but she is intercepted and kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to get the Olden Blade, which they believe can be used to kill the despot--Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors, is assigned to accompany her, but Kestra has her own plans and she does not intend to...
Author
Series
Bladesmith novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"In the first book in Tricia Levenseller's exciting new YA fantasy duology, a teenage blacksmith with social anxiety is forced to go on the run to protect the world from the most powerful magical sword she's ever made"--
Author
Series
Includes Andromeda volume 1
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
675 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
6) The trigger
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
447 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jeffrey Horton becomes caught up in a web of deceit and politics when he invents a device that is capable of rendering guns and bombs virtually harmless.
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Series
Oregon files volume 10
Language
English
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Description
In 1902, the volcano Mt. Pelée erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out an entire city of thirty thousand — and sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, Juan Cabrillo will have to deal with that scientist’s legacy. During a covert operation, Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the Oregon — but when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite...
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...
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 20
Language
English
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Description
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
10) Khai of Khem
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
320 p. : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Khai begins life in ancient Egypt as the son of Pharaoh Khasathut's chief architect. Believing Pharaoh to be a god, Khai is stunned to learn that the supposedly great and wise leader is a shriveled, ancient fossil of a man whose chief desires are to deflower young virgins and achieve eternal life through the powers of his black magicians. When Khai dares to raise a hand to Pharaoh, he is condemned to be a slave.
Author
Publisher
Windstream Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When David Jordan, an extraterrestrial human in appearance, agrees to help U.N. Secretary General Nicholas Straka resolve an escalating nuclear crisis, he also learns he must defuse a horrifying plot to exterminate humanity by a hostile race of beings who despise human culture. Somehow, he must thwart both crises before a worldwide intervention is launched by his superiors, destroying human innocence in the process. In Reason for Existence, David...
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English
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"As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated...
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Series
Oregon files adventures volume 14
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Oregon must piece together a series of disturbing events, including the mysterious sinking of a nuclear attack submarine and the possible discovery of a WWII-era weapon that was thought to be lost in the jungles of Brazil, in the ultimate game of cat and mouse.
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Series
Cold storage novels volume 3
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English
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"It's been seven years since Gloomy Knob landed in the Ted Stevens High-Security Federal Penitentiary and five years since the end of the war, the one North Korea started when they sent a missile to Cold Storage, Alaska. Serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister, Gloomy spends his time trying to forget about the past. Then one day, an old family friend grabs Gloomy from his off-site work station and smuggles him away in a hollow tree trunk....
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Language
English
Description
On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill: the truth is different. The real story starts much earlier, in 1961, with the birth of Nombeko Mayeki in a shack in Soweto. Nombeko was fated to grow up fast and die early in her poverty-stricken township. But Nombeko takes a different path. She finds work as a housecleaner and eventually makes...
16) Ball lightning
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen’s quest for answers gives purpose to his...
17) The kill switch
Author
Series
Tucker Wayne novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who does the U.S. government call upon when a mission requires perfect stealth, execution, and discretion? Meet the newest recruits to the expanding Sigma Force universe -- former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, Kane, a military working dog of exceptional abilities. The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bioweapon. But nothing is as it...
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Series
Imperial Radch volume 1
Language
English
Description
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren, a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one purpose...
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Series
Oregon files adventures volume 16
Language
English
Description
When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel and loses an Oregon crew member in the process, he's determined to get revenge.
Little does he know that the explosion he just narrowly escaped was merely the latest flash of violence from a machine of war that has existed for decades, dating from the bloodiest episode in Armenia's history.
Cabrillo's Corporation of mercenaries may have finally met its match in...
Author
Series
Kyle Achilles volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some people are naturally brilliant,others have to buy it. What would you pay, to be one in a million? Framed for murder and on the run, former Olympic biathlete Kyle Achilles is also in the crosshairs of assassins' guns. Why? He has no idea. He's fighting blind against two master strategists and one extraordinary invention -- known as Brillyanc. Achilles' only ally is the other prime suspect, a beautiful Russian mathematician who is either the best...
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