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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty, dire, and dehumanizing. There's only one other option: break up the family and take his sister to their grandparents in the Andean highlands, fleeing the city and the future within his grasp.
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62) Infomocracy
Author
Series
Centenal cycle volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
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.
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Language
English
Description
"Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl--her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels when he reveals the shocking truth about her mother. Cordelia can't suppress her curiosity about the woman who gave birth to her, and when she discovers the answers to her questions...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro parte del convencimiento de que el combate a la corrupción puede ser una política pública real, sin simulaciones; de que podemos aspirar a un Estado de derecho donde la rendición de cuentas forme parte estructural de nuestras instituciones. Sin embargo, dice, el gatopardismo -- aquel acto de cambiar todo para que las cosas sigan igual -- es el obstácula más urgente de derribar. Desde la Colonia y las tropelías de Hernán Cortés,...
66) The Gilded Age
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"This rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust. First published in 1873 and filled with unforgettable characters such as the vainglorious Colonel Sellers and the ruthless Senator Dilsworthy, The Gilded Age is a hilarious and instructive lesson in American history."--Publisher description.
67) Dry county
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five, and has worked hard to grow his loyal flock with strong sermons and smart community outreach. But while Weatherford is a man of influence and power--and a big force in local politics--he's also a man with secrets. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, Weatherford's world is threatened when he's blackmailed by a former...
68) Absolute power
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
69) Lone star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An unsolved murder in a Texas border town uncovers a tale of corruption, intrigue, and forbidden love.
Author
Publisher
W W Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
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Description
"CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's family business in Mexico--a CIA front since the 1960s--is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple to target Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife, Anna, who--unbeknownst to CIA--is a Russian intelligence officer under deep cover at the bank....
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Using FBI documents, Bongino unspools a complex sequence of corruption behind desperate multimillion-dollar plans to stop Trump's re-election. He reveals the outrageous actions of Robert Mueller's investigators, delves into the disturbing presence of Obama's fixer, and shows that the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was stoked by a Flynn-fixated paid operative. In the final chapter, Bongino shows how COVID-19 mutated from a killer plague in Wuhan...
72) The zero game
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Language
English
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Washington, D.C., with the story of an insider's game that turns deadly.
Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine...
Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing...
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Bosch investigates a cold case and the murder of a city councilman's son. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.
75) 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.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Beginning in late 2015, political operatives, intelligence officials, and the press pushed a conspiracy theory about Trump--he was a Russian asset and spied on his campaign and his presidency in order to undo an election. In their zeal to bring down the president, these Deep State conspirators have unwittingly revealed the origins of the anti-Trump operation.
77) In places hidden
Author
Series
Golden Gate secrets volume 1
Language
English
Description
1905. Caleb Coulter, a lawyer, went missing three months ago. His sister, Camrianne, heads to San Francisco to find him. She meets Judith and Kenzie, who also have mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. Camri's search leads her deep into the political corruption of the city-- and into the acquaintance of Patrick Murdock, an Irishman who Caleb saved from a false murder charge. Will Patrick be able to protect Camri from the dangers of the...
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Language
English
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Two supreme court justices are murdered within hours of each other, and Darby Shaw, a law student at Tulane, thinks she has the answer. She prepares a meticulous, speculative brief that builds a strong case against a surprise suspect -- a suspect with powerful friends that wants her and her brief out of the way for good.
79) Trash
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
80) Tenebra
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Dos hombres labran su destino en el juego oscuro e inmisericorde de la política mexicana. Después de varios años al servicio del senador Óscar Luna, Julio Rangel quiere mostrarle su valía. Las elecciones se aproximan y, con ellas, la oportunidad de seguir trepando la pirámide del poder. Nada lo detendrá. Por su parte, Martín Ferrer ha estado por mucho tiempo obsesionado con el senador. Una vieja disputa familiar impulsa sus deseos de venganza...
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