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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten Western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the West and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail.
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Language
English
Description
In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph{u2014}a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.
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English
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"A young white House lawyer, Michael Garrick, begins dating the President's daughter, Nora Hartson. Michael thinks he can handle the pressures of the White House and all the power. Until, while together late one night, he and Nora witness something they were never meant to see--and become ensnared in a secret scheme by a White House insider that includes betrayal and murder"--NoveList.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Navy Seal turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath teams up with a beautiful Russian agent Alexandra to cross the globe in the hopes of thwarting a sinister terrorist plot.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller -- when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...
11) Never
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Language
English
Description
"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
13) Capital crimes
Author
Series
Lee family saga volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
14) Madam President
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
Author
Series
Love at stake volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a video reveals to the world that vampires live among us, it's up to "young" vamp Gregori Holstein, VP of Marketing, to persuade the U.S. government to declare the video a hoax. But first the president wants a favor, one that requires Gregori to spend forty-eight hours in very close contact with the First Daughter. Abby Tucker would rather spend her nights in a lab than attend her father's state dinners. She's dedicated her life to finding a...
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia. Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen...
19) Mudwoman
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explores the high price of success in the life of one woman--the first female president of an Ivy League university--and her hold upon her self-identity in the face of darkly shrouded secrets from her past.
20) The first family
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Language
English
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A doctor informs the President and First Lady that to make a diagnosis on their son Cam, they need to find other people with the same symptoms to conduct additional testing, but when two young people Dr. Lee has found, each with exceptional gifts, are murdered, Cam's condition suddenly takes on a terrifyingly new dimension. As Dr. Lee searches for answers, he will uncover unimaginable secrets and dark betrayals that breach the highest levels of security....
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