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1) Split second
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment . . . and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun.
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. When the governor of Wyoming gives Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Joe reluctantly treks into the wilderness with his high-profile charge. But as they venture into the woods, a man-hunter...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 20
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...
4) Gone
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 20
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The holidays have arrived, and Hannah and her good pal Lisa have agreed to provide all the goodies for the town's annual production of A Christmas Carol. But before anyone can say "Bah, humbug!" a Santa-sized sackful of trouble ensues. Like the fact that Lisa's husband will be playing Mr. Claus to his ex-girlfriend Phyllis Bates' Mrs. Claus. Or that before the curtains even go up Phyllis is found dead in the snow - wearing a costume that the real...
6) Lost horizon
Author
Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
In this “engagingly written” international bestseller, survivors of a plane crash discover a peaceful paradise hidden in the Himalayas called Shangri-La (The New York Times).
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him...
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him...
Author
Series
Publisher
a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped the Queensland rain forest town of Crimson Lake would be a good place to disappear. But nowhere is safe from Claire's devastated father. Dale Bingley has a brutal revenge plan all worked out -- and if Ted doesn't help find the real abductor, he'll be its first casualty. Meanwhile, in a dark roadside hovel called the Barking Frog Inn, the bodies of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Edilean, Virginia, undercover detective Mike Newland uses Sara Shaw to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States--and also happens to be the mother of Greg Anders, the man whom Sara plans to marry and who leaves her without explanation three weeks before the wedding.
Author
Series
Chicken Squad volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar might be chicks, but they sure aren't chicken. They're the Chicken Squad, and it's up to them to figure out what Tail, the not-so-brave squirrel, is so afraid of. When he describes it as BIG and Scary, that doesn't give much insight as to what is lurking beyond the coop. Can our fecklees, fluffy heroes defeat something that could very well be -- gulp -- from out of this world?
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
CRIME & MYSTERY. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car, a Lincoln, taking whatever cases the system throws in his path. He's been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to The Trouble with Chickens finds search-and-rescue dog J.J. struggling with jealousy over Moosh's friendship with a fashionable new neighbor, a situation that is complicated by a raiding possum and questions about the neighbor's integrity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trav has always wondered about his dead-before-he-was-born dad. But when he heads from California to his grandmother's house in rural Minnesota, hoping to learn about his past, he gets more than he bargained for. It turns out his dad was involved in a bank robbery right before he mysteriously disappeared, and the loot from the take is still missing. Along with Kenny and Iz, the kids next door, Trav embarks on a search for the cash....
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat. He attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs. Wellington that she was too fat and in these days of increasing obesity it was her duty to show a good example. Angela Brody was told her detective...
Author
Publisher
Crown/Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2014, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...
17) NYPD red 2
Author
Series
NYPD Red volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
NYPD Red's finest detectives are about to investigate a brutal crime scene in Central Park . . . but even their training can't prepare them for the biggest case of their careers.
When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as the protectors of the rich, famous, and connected, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only for New York City's most high-profile crimes. And Detective Zach Jordan is the best of the...
When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as the protectors of the rich, famous, and connected, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only for New York City's most high-profile crimes. And Detective Zach Jordan is the best of the...
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.
Author
Series
Irish Village Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother. It's been a rough year for Siobhán, but it's about to get rougher. One morning they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. It's up to Siobhán to solve the crime.
Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings. It's been a rough year for them, but it's about to get rougher...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is...
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