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Spy school volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With SPYDER apparently defeated, thirteen-year-old Benjamin Ripley is hoping for some peace at spy school, but when the CIA conference room next to where Ben and Alexander are trying to explain everything to Ben's parents (no easy task) is blown up, suspicion falls on fellow trainee (and secret crush) Erica.
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English
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In 1902, the volcano Mt. Pelée erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out an entire city of thirty thousand?and sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, Juan Cabrillo will have to deal with that scientist?s legacy. During a covert operation, Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the Oregon?but when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite their planning...
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English
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"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to...
5) Treason
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 52
Language
English
Description
Upon returning to New York City after a whirlwind British excursion, Stone Barrington is notified of a delicate situation within the country's administration. A close friend requires his expertise and subtlety to eradicate a destructive presence in a classified agency--only it soon becomes clear that this renegade was sent by a rival Stone has encountered before. From the City of Light to the rocky Maine coastline, Stone will need to summon all his...
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Series
Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 4
Language
English
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When a bus full of teenagers on a church mission is taken hostage and the ransom demands are explicit, rescue specialist Jonathan Grave, who doesn't believe in ultimatums, discovers that someone within the U.S. government is willing to sacrifice innocent lives in order to protect a deadly secret.
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Elena Standish volume 1
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English
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"In the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre-World War II Europe, an intrepid young photographer carries her imperiled lover's final, urgent message into the heart of Berlin as Hitler ascends to power. On vacation from London on the beautiful Italian coast, twenty-eight-year-old Elena Standish and her older sister Margot have finally been able to forget some of the lasting trauma of the Great War. Touring with her camera in hand, Elena has...
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Series
Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 17
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"As beautiful as it may be, their friends' country home is not where Lady Vespasia wishes to spend Christmas with her new husband, Victor Narraway. She'd rather pass a relaxing holiday at home with him--especially because Victor, former head of the London Special Branch, seems to be hiding some undercover dealings with the other guests who have gathered in the spacious home. As tensions grow among the couples, the young and beautiful Iris Watson-Watt...
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Jason Bourne series volume 14
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder, aimed at the heart of the United States a way to steal the president's nuclear launch codes. Who has taken over the operation? Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne. But can Bourne be working against his own country? The U.S. Government is convinced of his treason, and is...
11) Vanish
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Series
Firelight novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: she betrayed the most closely guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again-- and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will's memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone.
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Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Socialite Peggy Shippen is half Benedict Arnold's age when she seduces the war hero during his stint as military commander of Philadelphia. Blinded by his young bride's beauty and wit, Arnold does not realize that she harbors a secret loyalty to the British. Nor does he know that she hides a past romance with the handsome British spy John André. Peggy watches as her husband, crippled from battle wounds and in debt from years of service to the colonies,...
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Series
Sam Capra novels volume 6
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years since the events of The First Order, Sam Capra (focused more on being a suburban dad and a businessman than a "spy on call") has moved his son Daniel to Austin, and continued to run his collection of bars and nightclubs around the world. He's had no contact with his former partner Mila, or anyone he worked with at the now disbanded independent espionage group, The Round Table. One day, he gets a phone call he never expected: Marcus Bolt...
15) Twice tempted
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Series
Drake's rakes volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
It feels like a lifetime ago that Alex Knight saved Fiona from certain doom... and stole a soul-shattering kiss for good measure. Wanting nothing more than to keep her safe, he left her in the care of her grandfather, the Marquess of Dourne. But Fiona was hardly safe. As soon as he could, the marquess cast her and her sister out on the streets with only her wits to keep them alive. Alex has never forgotten that long-ago kiss. Now the dashing spy is...
16) Rogue asset
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Series
Alex Reeve novels volume 2
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Alex Reeve is Operative 66. A former special ops soldier and one of the UK's most lethal weapons, he was a member of SC9 - an elite covert unit with a remit to assassinate the country's most dangerous enemies. Falsely accused of treason, Reeve was condemned to live in the shadows as the merciless killers he once trained alongside were ordered to eliminate the 'rogue asset'. But tricked into revealing himself, Reeve is dragged into a deadly international...
17) Frostfire
Author
Series
Kanin chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tracker Bryn Aven's goal of becoming a member of the elite King's Guard is threatened when she is sent to stop Konstantin, a fallen hero who she once secretly loved, who appears to be kidnapping changelings.
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Series
London steampunk series volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As a blue-blooded captain of the Nighthawk Guard, it's his duty to turn her in - she's a notorious spy and traitor. But after one stolen moment, he can't forget the feel of her in his arms, the taste of her, or the sharp sting of betrayal as she slipped off into the night. Little does Mercury know, no one hunts better than the Nighthawk.
19) Ice kissed
Author
Series
Kanin chronicles volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Having failed in her mission to locate the missing Skojare Queen, and capture the ex-tracker Konstantin, tracker Bryn Aven returns to Doldastam to help prepare the kingdom for war against Viktor Dalig--but dark secrets lurk in the halls of the crystal palace, and uncovering them will threaten the half-Skojare tracker and change her life and the Kanin Kingdom forever.
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Series
Legacy of the mercenary king novels volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this brilliant debut fantasy, a story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom's despised traitor holds the truth. Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king's nine-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor...
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