Ken Follett
1) Whiteout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A missing canister of deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems. And as a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company's director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus--but he isn't the only one. His grown children...
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Danish teenager Harald Olufsen, having stumbled upon the secret that is responsible for Germany's success in beating back the attacks of England's Royal Air Force in 1941, undertakes a dangerous, six-hundred-mile journey in a derelict airplane with his friend Karen, in an effort to get word to England and turn the course of the war.
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"In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth....
4) Jackdaws
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English
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British intelligence agent Felicity "Flick" Clairet must train a group of English women, within days, to blow up the Nazis' main telephone exchange in France and paralyze communications on D-Day. American spymaster Paul Chancellor falls in love with Flick as they plan the mission.
5) Never
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English
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"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drama of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
Espionage & Spy Thriller. Lie Down with Lions: Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them... Eye of the Needle: One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest...