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21) Shadows strike
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
U.S. law enforcement agent Heather Lane must set aside her feelings and work with immortal Ethan to battle a vampire war.
22) Echoes at dawn
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Grace Peterson is desperate, in hiding, and on the run after escaping a shadowy group determined to exploit her extraordinary ability to heal others. Her only lifeline--an unerring telepathic ability she shares with her sister--has been severed, leaving her alone and vulnerable. And time is running out."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Barque cats volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The barque cats, mistaken for a public health hazard, flee Earth for the feline-dominated planet, Mau, with the help of Pshaw-Ra, a mysterious cat with his own spaceship. Oddly, no one--including the humans--is bothered that he plans to take over the universe on behalf of felinekind.
Author
Series
Darkover novels volume 28
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
After an interstellar civil war, heir to the throne Prince Gareth Elhalyn takes on a secret mission to stop the seedy population of Darkover from arming the Dry Towners with forbidden weapons.
25) No easy target
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a volunteer at the San Diego Zoo in California, Margaret has been making good use of her psychic ability to communicate with animals such as Zaran, a stubborn tigress who refuses to accept her cub. Late one night, just as she shuts Zaran's cage, Margaret feels a gun in her back. John Lassiter, a former CIA operative, is prepared to use force to ensure that she joins him on a mission to rescue his mentor, CIA agent Sean Patrick. Patrick has been...
27) Gnomon: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody...
28) Oblivion
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 5
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from Hong Kong, fifteen-year-old Matt and four other Gatekeepers take an ultimate stand against a destructive evil force that has unleashed a decimating storm as part of a plot to end the world.
29) Dead until dark
Author
Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Being telepathic, Miss Sookie has no luck dating the living. It's just too awkward for her to become intimate with a man--let alone sleep with him--when she can hear everything he's thinking about her. But then the alluring vampire Bill stops into her bar, and his mind reads silent as a tomb. Finally, the match she's longed for! There are some corrupt criminals, however, who wish to destroy Sookie's undead beau--and soon realize they picked the wron...
30) Princess Academy
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Selena came alone to the mansion on the isolated Maine coast. There she met Ian Carrick, a physician turned recluse, haunted by a telepathic gift that has destroyed his desire to heal. Selena comes to him, the only person he's ever met who is immune to his psychic powers. A mesmerizing innocent, she turns his life upside down, bringing light into darkness.
32) Conspiracy game
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fiery passion erupts between GhostWalker Jack Norton and trapeze artist Briony--predetermined soul mates through genetic engineering--as they combat a corrupt scientist's evil machinations.
33) Calculated risks
Author
Series
InCryptid volume 10
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, Sarah Zellaby, who has undergone a transformation called an instar that makes her more powerful and difficult to control, is stranded in a different dimension where numerous people want her dead.
34) Prime directive
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a number of scientists are mysteriously killed on an insignificant scientific outpost on the planet of Loria and no alarm is raised, Commander Rickets of the Galactic Space Arm (GSA) is angered that no one can explain why. Rickets orders Lieutenant Amanda Bostick along with two armed Guardians, Sergeant Hamoud and Corporal Nasim, to investigate. All three have faced setbacks in their careers and time is against them: the GSA is demanding answers...
35) Bonds of justice
Author
Series
Psy-Changeling series volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Max Shannon is a good cop, one of the best in New York Enforcement. Born with a natural shield that protects him against Psy mental invasions, he knows he has little chance of advancement within the Psy- dominated power structure. The last case he expects to be assigned to is that of a murderer targeting a Psy Councilor's closest advisors. And the last woman he expects to compel him in the most sensual of ways is a Psy on the verge of catastrophic...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"All Bee has ever known is darkness. She doesn't remember the crime she committed that landed her in the cold, twisting caverns of the prison planet Colel-Cab with only fellow prisoner Chela for company. Chela says that they're telepaths and mass-murderers; that they belong here, too dangerous to ever be free. Bee has no reason to doubt her--until she hears the voice of another telepath, one who has answers, and can open her eyes to an entirely different...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books , Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Living safe and anonymous after the Battle of Neo Seoul, telepath Ama does not expect to be approached by a resistance group to help expose a government experiment similar to the one she successfully fled. Once she accepts, however, her assignments get more dangerous until she finds herself manipulating the mind of the boy she once loved and was betrayed by, so she can unseat him as commander of the Alliance.
38) To die fur
Author
Series
Whiskey, Tango & Foxtrot Mysteries volume 2
Whiskey Tango and Foxtrot Mysteries volume 2
Whiskey Tango and Foxtrot mystery volume 2
Whiskey Tango and Foxtrot Mysteries volume 2
Whiskey Tango and Foxtrot mystery volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Deirdre has her hands full, as usual. Working as a Jill-of-all-trades for a zany billionaire like Zelda Zoransky means the daily grind is closer to a juggling act, and this week is no exception--especially when her side job is directing spiritual traffic in Zelda's pet cemetery. With ZZ hosting a party for some of the world's wealthiest animal collectors and a rare albino liger named Augustus in residence at the private zoo, Foxtrot is ready for trouble...
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Miri's eager to return to her beloved Mount Eskel after a year at the capital, but the king and queen ask her to first journey to a distant swamp and start her own miniature princess academy for three royal cousins, but once there she must solve a mystery before she can return home.
40) Contagion
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready...
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