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Witches steeped in gold volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"Two enemy witches must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a tyrant who threatens both their worlds-with unpredictable results"--
42) Gideon's sword
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 1
Language
English
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"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime--and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Wolf Hadda, a Cumbrian woodcutter's son turned hugely successful entrepreneur, retreats into silence until a prison psychiatrist makes a breakthrough that, revisiting a mysterious period in his youth, draws out the vengeful Woodcutter.
44) Assassin's heart
Author
Series
Assassin's heart volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Via, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"A wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who've all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him... Divorces are often messy, and Imogen's is no exception. Phillip Rochester is controlling, abusive, and determined to make things as difficult as possible. When he shows up without warning demanding that Imogen move out of their house by the end of the month or he'll...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Holly, the former friend who destroyed her once-promising future back in college, is up for an award at a Woman of the Year ceremony, Lorelei finally has the perfect opportunity to exact her revenge, but soon discovers someone else has been obsessively following Holly's career and will kill to have it.
Author
Series
Breeds volume 29
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"He was a shadow, ever shifting and insinuating, able to blend in everywhere and anywhere. The elusive ideal conceived and created by the Genetics Council, he went by just as many names as he had identities--the last one being Gideon. Now calling himself Graeme, he hides in plain sight, terrifyingly close to his goal. A rogue Bengal Breed, he has loyalties to no one but himself. And he has a need for vengeance that surges hot and swift through his...
50) ROCK BOTTOM
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Series
Sisterhood series volume 35
Language
English
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As the world's most famous vigilantes, the women of the Sisterhood have seen justice served countless times over the years. When an old classmate of one of the members of the Sisterhood suspects that her firm's foundation materials may be the reason a number of bridges and buildings have been collapsing, it is time for the Sisterhood to go into action. But this adversary has money, power, and resources to match the Sisterhood's - and no intention...
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English
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Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat's single mother warned her that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother's fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Marrying into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree has all a woman could ever dream: a loving lawyer husband, two talented young teenage daughters, a new baby boy, a gorgeous home, and every opportunity in the world. Until the day Bree awakens and...
Author
Series
Danny Duggin novels volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Danielle Strange disguises herself as Danny Duggin to track down and kill the men who murdered her father--with bounty hunters on her trail and a U.S. federal marshall pursuing her.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rescuing and raising an abandoned baby girl in the woods, a man enters the child in a singing competition when she develops an astonishingly beautiful voice, a performance that leads to the girl's encounter with another youngster with whom she triggers a horrifying force.
54) Hench: a novel
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English
Description
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. As a temp, she's just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called 'hero' leaves her badly injured. So, of course, then she gets laid off. With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the...
56) Ancillary sword
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now everyone is fully civilized -- or should be. But everything...
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Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 42
Language
English
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After a Mexican revolutionary crashes the border, killing 22 innocent U.S. citizens and stealing livestock, including 200 of his horses, Smoke Jensen, going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, wages war on the Colonel and his ruthless banditos.
58) Friendly fire
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Series
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English
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"It begins with a shocking act of vengeance. Barista Ethan Falk chases a customer into the parking lot and kills him. He tells police that years ago the older man abducted and tortured him. Then Ethan's story takes an even stranger turn: he says he was rescued by a guy named Scorpion. Of course, there is no record of either the kidnapping or the rescue, because Scorpion--Jonathan Grave--operates outside the law and leaves no evidence. As Grave struggles...
Author
Series
Crown of shards volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"First, Evie has to deal with a court full of arrogant, demanding nobles, all of whom want to get their greedy hands on her crown. As if that wasnt bad enough, an assassin tries to kill Evie in her own throne room. Despite the dangers, Evie goes ahead with a scheduled trip to the neighboring kingdom of Andvari in order to secure a desperately needed alliance. But complicating matters is the stubborn Andvarian king, who wants to punish Evie for the...
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Series
Hell's half acre volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
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A Texas sheriff must defend a murderous Union general from a Confederate family out for revenge in this post–Civil War Western.
They call him The Butcher of Baxter Pass, the notorious former Union General who massacred 200 Confederate prisoners—just because he could. Now it's Sheriff Jess Casey's unenviable job to protect the bloodthirsty murderer from those who want him dead, which turns out be pretty much everyone...
They call him The Butcher of Baxter Pass, the notorious former Union General who massacred 200 Confederate prisoners—just because he could. Now it's Sheriff Jess Casey's unenviable job to protect the bloodthirsty murderer from those who want him dead, which turns out be pretty much everyone...
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