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21) Devil's gate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
22) Nighthawk
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"NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical...
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Michael Osbourne novels volume 2
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English
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Daniel Silva's first two novels, The Unlikely Spy and The Mark of the Assassin, have placed him securely in the company of the world's leading writers of literate and insightful spy fiction. In The Marching Season, the reluctant hero of The Mark of the Assassin, Michael Osbourne, now an embittered ex-CIA officer, is pulled into the troubled peace and politics of Northern Ireland after the treaty between Protestants and Catholics has supposedly taken...
24) Shadow tyrants
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"Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men--and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind. Soon, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives aboard the...
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Holland family saga volume 2
Wheeler large print hardcover
Hackberry Holland novel volume 04
Hackberry Holland volume novel
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Wheeler large print hardcover
Hackberry Holland novel volume 04
Hackberry Holland volume novel
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From it's opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign on the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, House of the Rising Sun is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army. After a violent encounter that leaves...
26) Atlantis found
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
Description
Underwater explorer and adventure magnet Dirk Pitt sets off on a whirlwind course around the world to save civilization from destruction after ancient runes are discovered in an abandoned Colorado mine and archaeologist Patricia O'Connell is almost killed to keep them secret.
27) Three fates
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Irish siblings Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan find themselves in far-flung places as they desperately search for a family heirloom--a statue stolen by their great-great-grandfather aboard the "Lusitania" the day it was sunk--that holds much more than sentimental value to others around the globe.
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A parable exploring the future of humankind relates the search in the forests of Peru for a mysterious ancient manuscript that reveals nine insights the human race is predicted to grasp as the world moves toward a new era of increased awareness and spirituality.
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Fargo adventures volume 5
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English
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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out.
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Bob Lee Swagger will stop at nothing to find those responsible for running his daughter off the road and into a coma.
Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of the "New York Times"--Bestselling "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.
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"In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return--once he passes beyond the edge of the known world, there's no...
32) And then you die
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Photojournalist Bess Grady teams up with a CIA agent to catch germ-warfare terrorists who wiped out a Mexican village in a rehearsal for an attack on the U.S. Bess was vacationing in the village and only escaped because she is immune to anthrax, the bacteria used. By the author of The Ugly Duckling.
33) The striker
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"It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly...
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Oregon files volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
When the U.S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA hires Juan Cabrillo to search for her. The crew locates the plane, but the Secretary of State has vanished. But what does it all have to do with a two-hundred-year-old naval battle and the ancient Islamic scrolls the Libyans seem so determined to find? The search for answers leads Cabrillo into another pitched battle at sea, this time against...
35) Havana storm
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
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English
Description
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous -- a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is,...
36) Valhalla Rising
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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When Dirk Pitt races to save the victims of the sinking of the cruise ship Emerald Dolphin, he has no idea that he will soon be confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend.
37) Fire ice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
Along the eastern seaboard lie pockets of methane hydrate, a notoriously unstable compound known as "fire ice." What if somebody should set them off, say, outside a major city? Think of the explosions. Think of the earth tremors.
38) Digital fortress
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it woud cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy...
39) Congo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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Deep in the African rain forest, near the ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, a field expedition is brutally killed. At the Houston-based Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., a horrified supervisor watches a gruesome video transmission of that ill-fated group and sees a haunting, grainy, man-like blur moving amongst the bodies. In San Francisco, an extraordinary gorilla named Amy, who has a 620-sign vocabulary, may hold the secret to that fierce...
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After Israel launches a first strike on Iran, wiping out their nuclear weapons, it is up to undercover CIA operative David Shirazi to prevent a counter attack by the Iranians who have managed to hold onto two nuclear war heads by hiding them in an undisclosed location.
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