Christopher Lane
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English
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Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. George Crile tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency's history. In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson's attention to the ragged Afghan freedom fighters who continued...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When the evil Overtakers gain control of a computer server at the Magic Kingdom, allowing them to put the holographic hosts into permanent comas if they should fall asleep, Finn and the others race against time to find the missing Jez and foil the plan.
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English
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When two escaped killers take refuge in their home during a storm on Christmas Eve, Skyler O'Boyle plays a daring psychological game to throw the criminals off guard, while her daughter, Kat, escapes and meets a third felon, who is hiding a secret that could save them all.
5) Terrorist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.
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English
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Late one night, Michael--an addicted gambler who has lost everything, including himself--spots a woman in a white Rolls-Royce throwing something into the river. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail target, he attempts to recruit a band of homeless outcasts to search for her. But news that a building is slated for demolition turns this halfhearted effort into a serious mission to find the ultimate problem-solver: money, and with it a new...
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English
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Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and spy, faces the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer. These photographs lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever. Will Allon, who's still recovering from his last grueling showdown, find strength to halt this terrorist plot?
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future--and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will make their last, best stand....
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Men at war volume 7
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English
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Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies' efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.
10) Darkfall
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
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English
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They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last. At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. Soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night.
11) Flood
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c1985, p2009
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English
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Burke teams up with his new client, a beautiful woman who wants Burke to find a child's murderer so she can kill him with her bare hands.
12) Strike force
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
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High hopes about a new Iranian leader who limits Islamic theocracy and pursues harmonious relations with America and Israel are shattered when a terrorist army declares holy war on Iran's new military regime, threatening to further destabilize the MiddleEast. U.S. Air Force Lt. General Patrick McLanahan and his Air Battle Force group led by Captain Hunter Noble take action to control the situation.
13) Endurance
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Series
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2010
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English
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The bed and breakfast was hidden in the hills of West Virginia. Wary guests wondered how it could stay in business at such a creepy, remote location. Especially with its bizarre, presidential decor and eccentric proprietor. When the event hotel for the national Iron Woman triathlon accidentally overbooked, competitor Maria was forced to stay at the Rushmore. But after checking into her room, she quickly realized she wasn't alone. First her suitcase...
14) Layover in Dubai
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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THRILLER / SUSPENSE. Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate Security and Investigation to spy on another employee while they're traveling for the company. Ordinarily careful to a fault, Sam decides to live it up. What better spot for business-class hedonism than boomtown Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slope of a shopping mall. But when Sam's charge...
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Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
℗2005
Language
English
Description
In Montana, Gabriel Du Pre, a Metis widower with two daughters who works as a cattle inspector, is asked by the sheriff to help out with a probe. The wreck of a plane, which crashed 30 years earlier, has been discovered with the remains of a rancher, his wife and a headless man.
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pré
Montana, "the last best place" of the disappearing American West, is the setting of Peter Bowen's splendid first mystery novel in a series featuring Gabriel Du Pré. A cattle-brand inspector and occasional sheriff's deputy, Du Pré moves easily among the ranchers, cowboys, Native Americans, barflies, dreamers, and Eastern dudes who populate what's left of the
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