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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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When sudden wealth awakens a sleeping nuclear threat, President Jack Ryan must deal with North Korea's young dictator and the country's newfound nuclear capabilities as Ryan investigates a murdered CIA veteran, several missing forged documents, and a North Korean missile's splash-landing in the Sea of Japan.
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: there are riots erupting on the streets of Stockholm and they appear to be connected with the disappearance of her brother, Fadi. Following rumors that Fadi was radicalized and died fighting for ISIS in Syria, Yasmine returns to Stockholm to discover what really happened to her brother....
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"It begins in the Pacific Northwest. A deadly wave of massive wildfires are raging out of control, killing hundreds in their path, and showing no sign of stopping. This time, the fires are man-made. In Portland, Oregon, a sleeper cell of terrorists have recruited a disgruntled Forest Service smokejumper to train their army. To spread the fear coast to coast. To make America burn. Those who flee the hot flames are gunned down in cold blood. But one...
4) The rook
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Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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While investigating a series of baffling fires in San Diego, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue where nothing is as it appears to be. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the worlds most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop a criminal mastermind's trap before it closes around him and the people he loves.
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Miss Fortune mystery volume 17
Publisher
J&R Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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It's Mardi Gras time and Fortune is looking forward to seeing the spectacle firsthand. When a visitor to Sinful is murdered during the celebration there, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie start looking into the woman, and the family in Sinful she came to visit. The investigation sends them to New Orleans, right at the height of the Mardi Gras celebration. But instead of relaxing a little and enjoying the festivities, Fortune can't shake the feeling that...
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English
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It's homecoming in Absaroka County, Wyoming, but the festivities are interrupted when a homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon "lost boy," Cord Lynear is searching for his missing mother. Sheriff Longmire and companions Victoria Moretti and Henry Standing Bear embark on a high plains scavenger hunt to reunite mother and son. The trail leads to an interstate polygamy group that's harboring a stockpile of weapons and a vicious vendetta.
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Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career. The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, and the most powerful people in the world gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped within one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario. Bennett--father of ten--is pulled...
8) Hawke's prey
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Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"When a merciless gang of terrorists take over a Texas courthouse, Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke tries to stop their plot to subvert the U.S. government by taking out the terrorists one at a time and freeing the hostages, among whom are the daughter of a U.S. Congressman and Sonny's wife and children"--
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English
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"The president of the United States . . . is missing."With these words, New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins - reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists on an Arab-Israeli peace summit in Amman - puts the entire world on high alert. Israeli and Palestinian leaders are critically injured. Jordans king is fighting for the very existence of his kingdom. And the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured.As...
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"After the President closes Guantanamo Bay, some terrorists are relocated to Hell's Gate Prison in West Texas--where a sleeper-cell of shock troops launch an assault to 'liberate' their jailed comrades. Soon after going free, they take the high school football team hostage. The team will be executed, one by one, if the terrorists' demands aren't met. Army Ranger Lucas Kincaid assembles a ragtag band of survivors and aging cons into a lethal fighting...
11) 31 hours
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Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother's blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn't know what she has done wrong, but Jonas won't answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in a safe-house apartment in New York City, pondering his conversion to Islam and his experiences training in Pakistan, preparing for the violent action
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Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Police Chief Jane Hardy is still reeling from the scandal that rocked her small-town department just as she took over for her retired father--the man who wrecked her life with one little lie. Now she's finally been reunited with her presumed-dead fifteen-year-old son, Will, and his father, documentarian Reid Bechtol. When a murder aboard the oil platform Zeus exposes an environmental terrorist's plot to flood Mobile Bay with crude oil, Jane and Reid...
14) Never
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English
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Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the country's first women president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful counties that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
15) The wolves
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable wall of security. Now it's time for him to pay, and Wells has made it his personal mission.
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The assault on the World Trade Center was the most sophisticated and horrifying in series of operations masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group - an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of only a handful of Western journalists to have interviewed the world's most wanted man face to face, Peter Bergen explains the Jihadist network...
17) The other woman
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Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
18) ISIS
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
ISIS covers the history of the terrorist organization and what it stands for, how its leaders recruit more followers, and the importance of understanding the threat this organization poses for the rest of the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon, mother to five-year-old Katie, is accustomed to visiting opulent homes around the tri-state area. A born optimist, Lane finds the glimpse into these gilded worlds fascinating, and loves the reward of exceeding the expectations of their often-demanding owners. When she is called to assist in redecorating a modest townhouse in Bergen County, she knows the job is unusual. Then...
20) Marauder
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Oregon files adventures volume 15
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English
Description
"While stopping a violent attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker, Juan Cabrillo and his team discover something even more dangerous: a ruthless billionaire's dying wish has allowed a paralyzing chemical to end up in the hands of a terrorist group. And the billionaire's daughter will stop at nothing to see his plan through. When an Oregon crew member falls victim to the poison, Juan Cabrillo is desperate to find and antidote before it is too late. He and his...
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