Dick Hill
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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,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit...
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Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny; it's for a woman. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring, which has her initials engraved on the inside. Why not? So begins a harrowing journey...
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When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the 'Dollmaker,' the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers. But four years later, Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse, Bosch has just received a note, eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with, giving him a location where a...
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Circle trilogy) volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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In 12th century Ireland, a sorceror is sent on a mission by the goddess Morrigan to destroy a powerful vampire, with the help of a shape-changer, a scholar, a warrior, a vampire, and a 21st century witch.
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In Angola, two armed men enter a small plane and slit the throat of the lone crew member. The FBI and CIA race to find the answer but not quickly enough. Fed up with the entire situation, the United States President decides to send in an outside investigator to solve the case. Delta Force major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, also known as Charlie, is up to the challenge and won't stop until he finds an answer - no matter what the risk may be.
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Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch is placed on forced leave for hitting his boss. He decides to take advantage of his free time to solve a case which has obsessed him all his life: the murder of a prostitute, his mother. By the author of The Concrete Blonde.
10) The hunters
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Presidential Agent volume 3
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English
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Acting on orders from the president, Charley Castillo and his team travel to Uruguay in pursuit of answers pertaining to missing oil-for-food scandal funds, only to witness the murder of the man they seek.
11) Faceless killers
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The murder of a farming couple in Sweden unleashes a wave of xenophobia when it is learned that the woman's dying words were "foreigner." The case is given to Inspector Kurt Wallender, a lover of opera and booze. Part crime story, part look at the attitude of Swedes to immigrants.
12) True evil
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FBI Special Agent Alexandra Morse believes that Dr. Chris Shepard's beautiful new wife is plotting to kill him. Doubts begin to gnaw at him as he looks into his wife's background, so Shepard agrees to act as bait to stop a divorce lawyer's scheme that may have already claimed nine lives, including that of Alex Morse's sister.
13) Mirror image
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After plastic surgery following a jet crash, television reporter Avery Daniels is mistaken for rich Texas senator Tate Rutledge's wife and finds herself keeping the false identity in order to save her "husband" from an assassination plot.
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
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English
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Summoned by a friend, ex-cop Cam Richter agrees to do a favor: investigate the assault of a young woman in a remote area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Cam knows the misty hills and shadowed hollers of the park, and his outdoor skills might break a case that local cops can't-- or maybe don't want to-- solve. Cam has no idea how dangerous his search will become, because in this part of Appalachia, matriarch Grinny Creigh and her extended...
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Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
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[2016]
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English
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This compilation includes three Jack Reacher novellas and the ultimate fan guide 'Jack Reacher's rules.'
This compilation includes three Jack Reacher novellas and the ultimate fan guide, Jack Reacher's Rules. Deep DownSummoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, DC, Reacher is sent undercover. The assignment that awaits him: The army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for US...
16) Dragon's fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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When the last firestone mine explodes, Tenim contrives to turn this tragedy to his own advantage. Only Pellar, Halla and Cristov can stop him, and secure a future for the Dragonriders.
17) Freedom's choice
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Brilliance Audio
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[2007], p1997
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English
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A group of slaves, brought to an uninhabited planet by their Catenni masters, who have taken over Earth, must learn to survive in their new surroundings, but some struggle with calling their new planet home and consider a rebellion in order to return to their true home.