Robert Petkoff
1) High heat
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Series
Nikki Heat mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years.
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English
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Our guide is McCormack A. "Mack" Malloy, fiftyish ex-cop, almost ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane at Gage & Griswell, one of Kindle County's top-notch law firms, who has been charged by the firm's Oversight Committee with a highly sensitive task. --- [Excerpt from inside cover.]
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English
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Linus Owen, a professor of conspiracy theory at Modesto College in San Rafael, California, learns that the truth is far more sinister than even he had believed when he sets out to investigate why his wife Claudia, who he thought was visiting her mother in Chicago, was killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil.
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English
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Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the U.S.S. Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the hellish nebula known as the Pergamum, Pike finds an epic battle of his own. This battle pits ancient enemies against one another-- with not just the Enterprise, but her crew as the spoils of war. Lost and out of contact with Earth for an entire...
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Series
Secret series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In this tooth-rotting adventure, Cass's mom has been kidnapped by the sinister, blind chef and chocolatier, Senor Hugo. The ransom is the legendary Tuning Fork. Can Cass and Max-Ernest find the magical instrument before it's too late?
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Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock's father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planet called Akiron. They arrive to find this world under siege by creatures that some of the planet's denizens believe are demons. Sarek orders Kirk to abandon the mission, but the young captain won't turn his back on people in danger. After a harrowing encounter with the dark-energy "demons," Kirk's belief in a rational universe...
Author
Series
Secret series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Cass finds herself alone and disoriented in a dream-like world, while back at home she is in the hospital in a coma with Max-Ernest, who is desperately searching for a way to awaken her.