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1) Private
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's elite Los Angeles detective agency and along with it such cases as an NFL gambling scandal, eighteen unsolved schoolgirl slayings, and the murder of his best friend's wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
An effort to remove a junkyard adjacent to a lucrative Wyoming land-development project is thrown into conflict when human remains are discovered at the site, a situation that pits Sheriff Walt Longmire and his companions against increasingly volatile locals.
4) Death echo
Author
Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Ex-CIA agent Emma Cross and former special forces member MacKenzie Durand must put aside their differences if they are ever going to join forces to take down a formidable international crime network.
Author
Series
Jo Beckett series volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett endeavors to learn the victim's role in her demise as well as the murder's relevance for the president.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Helping to rehabilitate Iraq War veteran Milo, physical therapist Honor experiences puzzling images from the past when she touches the wounded soldier, visions that impart the stories of a strained 1930s marriage, a 1960s photographer, and a seventeenth-century forbidden Turkish romance.
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist who years ago disappeared without a trace has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. He is a killing machine and once again loose in America with a mission of revenge, and John Corey, special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, will stop at nothing to achieve his own goal -- to find and kill Khahil.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
A satirical work on life in the United States on the brink of financial collapse finds psychologist-turned-corporate executive Richard distracting himself from worries about the economy and his partner's suspicious absences by engaging in punishing gym workouts and obsessing about a married man.
10) The Hittite
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of a team of geo-engineers who are working to counter global warming through the development of technologies that may lower the planet's temperatures, assessing the arguments in favor of and against the effort.
13) The whisperers
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the border between Maine and Canada, a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place. Drugs, cash, weapons, even people-- and something ancient and powerful and evil...
14) Sh*t my dad says
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Overview: Introducing a fresh, exciting new voice, an inspiring debut about a Chinese immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
After her daughter, Chess, breaks off an engagement and her fiancé subsequently dies in a rock-climbing accident, divorcée Birdie Cousins encourages her younger daughter, Tate, and her sister, India, to join her and Chess on Tuckernuck Island for a month, a time when deep secrets are soon revealed.
17) Sizzling sixteen
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula, motivated only by a strong desire to save their jobs, set out to rescue their boss and Stephanie's cousin, Vinny, who has been kidnapped by the mob for not paying his gambling debts.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While executive Emily questions her choices about her career and a long-distance relationship with a successful man, her environmental activist sister, Jessamine, struggles with her own doubts about her beliefs and love affair.
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate and alone, game warden Mike Bowditch strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive--Mike's father. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer--which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
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