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81) The deceivers
Author
Series
Vale Hall volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Brynn Hilder's academic record and talent for running cons earns her a place at Dr. Odin's exclusive private school Vale Hall, where students are trained to collect secrets that have the power to overthrow corrupt politicians.
82) The opium prince
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Turner is in LAPD's Internal Affairs, assigned to a special surveillance squad pursuing a trio of uniformed thugs preying on those they've sworn to protect and serve. Meanwhile he's attempting to keep his personal life intact. When the hunter becomes the hunted, the investigation nearly costs him the career he loves-- and his life.
85) Storm damage
Author
Series
Cliff St. James mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a politically connected New Orleans bar owner in the aftermath of a devastating Category 5 hurricane, former police officer and mixed-martial artist Cliff St. James discovers possible CIA involvement in the crime.
86) Scammed
Author
Series
Vale Hall volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Brynn's new assignment, to try to bring Grayson's father to justice, threatens not only the future graduating from Vale Hall would ensure, but her relationships with her friends and almost-boyfriend.
87) They're gone
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two men from vastly different backgrounds are murdered one after another on the same night, in the same fashion with two bullet wounds: one in the head, another in the heart. The two slayings sends their wives on a desperate search for answers - and a desperate attempt to save their families' lives. Grief takes a heavy toll on northern Virginia freelance editor Deb Linh Thomas when she learns of her husband's murder. And utter dismay sets in when,...
Author
Series
Jack Logan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Senator Malcolm Philips appears at the door of investigative journalist Jack Logan's New York apartment, disheveled, sure he's about to be murdered, and insistent that Jack watch over his wife, Taylor. The only catch is that Taylor happens to be the only woman Jack has ever truly loved. Days later, Phillips is found dead, the apparent victim of an allergy attack. And the only one who may be able to unlock the secret of his real killer, is Taylor.
89) Amsterdam
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The death of Molly Lane, a London glamour photographer, leaves her many friends to ponder their mortality.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When he discovers stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragedy, newsman Luke Blackburn becomes the center of a media firestorm that threatens to blow up his marriage while his star investigative reporter slowly pieces together a story of corruption and cartel money in his refuge, Key West.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Arlen Wagner awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but are soon stranded at the Cypress House--an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady--directly in the path of an approaching hurricane. But...
Author
Series
Light the abyss volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Leyla McQueen, who lives beneath the ruins of a submerged London in 2099, joins a prestigious submersible race in the hope of clearing her father's name before encountering government corruption and a hidden world.
93) Valiant ladies
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In Potosí, a silver mining city in the new Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, two teen vigilantes set out to expose corruption and deliver justice after Kiki's brother is murdered and the prostitute he loved disappears. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter, who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"-- Provided by publisher.
96) Silk fire
Author
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Koré, a courtesan to the wealthy and powerful, knows many secrets. He also knows meddling in politics is dangerous. Nevertheless, he seeks political influence, and in the process, he meets a dying god who gives him the powers of a sacred dragon. Suddenly Koré is a hunted man, for whoever finds him first and discovers his secret can claim the powers and use him as a deadly tool.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the United Kingdom decides whether or not to remain a member of the European Union or go its own way in September of 2017, a group of ruthless killers will stop at nothing to keep a shocking secret at the very heart of the government that could change everything in an instant from being revealed.
98) Last snow
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions-- Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter-- and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Formats
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.
100) Lotus: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the mesmerizing debut novel Lotus, a young woman defies her fate and escapes to the city and all it holds for her--be it love, danger, or destiny Surviving by her wits alone, Lotus charges headlong into the neon lights of Shenzhen, determined to pull herself out of the gutter and decide her own fate." --
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