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1) Thunderhead
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Carnegie Medal for Fiction - Shortlist
2024 Locus Award Nominees - Best Fantasy Novel
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
2024 Locus Award Nominees - Best Fantasy Novel
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
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"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
Author
Series
Terminal list volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
"Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!" —Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political...
"Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!" —Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political...
Author
Series
FBI/US Attorney novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
A businesswoman and an Assistant U.S. attorney try to resist the attraction they feel for one another as they join forces to take down a corrupt senator.
6) Deadline
Author
Series
Newsflesh volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his life.
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, encyclopedic Floridaphile, lovable serial killer, and movie buff extraordinaire Serge A. Storms devises his wildest plan yet: finish the journey begun by his freewheeling heroes, Captain America and Billy, tragically cut short by some shotgun-wielding rednecks. Setting a course for the Florida panhandle, Captain Serge, with Coleman literally riding shotgun, mounts his classic motorcycle and hits...
9) Null states
Author
Series
Centenal cycle volume 2
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans...
10) The opium prince
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero-turned-magnate, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul for the first time as the head of a US foreign aid agency dedicated to staunching the growth of the poppy fields in Fever Valley that feed the world's opiate epidemic. But on the drive back to Kabul from an anniversary trip with his wife, Rebecca, Daniel hits...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
In this 13th Reacher novel, the former army MP confronts a possible suicide bomber on a nearly deserted Manhattan subway car -- a confrontation that will lead him back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and forward to the war on terrorism. It turns out that Susan Mark's life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, and Afghanistan ... from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate to a beautiful young...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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Description
The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful--and notorious--governor Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer in the Deep South of the 1930s. Beset by political enemies, Stark seeks aid from his right-hand man Jack Burden, who will bear witness to the cataclysmic unfolding of this very American tragedy.
13) Blackout
Author
Series
Newsflesh volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, such as zombie bears, mad scientists and rogue government agencies, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for a time been seeking a stable peace, has turned back to his nationalist roots and is threatening to pull Bosnia apart in a bloody struggle for control . . . and behind him is a shadowy mafia figure pulling...
15) Nyuma ya pazia
Author
Publisher
Langaa RPCIG
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
Swahili
Description
Nyuma Ya Pazia au Nyuma ya pazia ni juu ya ufisadi unaomuhusisha rais, na mawaziri wake wanaoibia nchi ya Mafuriko au Abracadabra. Rais kwa kushirikiana na Waziri Mkuu walileta kampuni bandia ya wadudu wa kigeni; Richmen kuwekeza katika uzalishaji wa umeme huko Mafuriko. Kupitia ardhi ya Richmen ardhi zabuni yenye faida kubwa inayotumiwa kama mfereji wa kuiba mamilioni kutoka Benki Kuu. Richmen hutumiwa kuchimba mabilioni ya dola kutoka hazina. Wakati...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"After her brother is arrested for murder, Theresa's quiet life is turned upside down as she immerses herself in a world of political and legal scandal, white-collar crimes and controversial convictions in order to prove his innocence in the next gripping literary mystery by critically acclaimed author, Emily Arsenault"--
17) Those who knew
Author
Language
English
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Description
"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"--
18) Navola: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In Navola, a bustling city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, business is power, and power is everything. For generations, the di Regulai family-merchant bankers with a vast empire-has nurtured tendrils that stretch to the farthest reaches of the known world. And though they claim not to be political, their staggering wealth has bought cities and toppled kingdoms. Soon, Davico di Regulai will be expected to take the reins of power...
Author
Series
Lou Welcome novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Merriman years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor...
20) December boys
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels (Joe Clifford) volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Insurance investigator Jay Porter's investigation of a motor vehicle accident claim leads him to a political kickback scheme involving first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to privately owned hardcore behavioral modification centers.
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