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1) Jade city
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Green Bone saga volume 1
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English
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"For centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors have used magical jade to enhance their abilities and defend the island of Kekon from foreign invasion. Now the war is over and a new generation vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. Four siblings of the powerful Kaul family must prepare for battle...and the fragile peace between the clans is about to break."--
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 2
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English
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The year is 1940 and Los Angeles-based private eye Toby Peters has been asked to track down a murderer stalking the back lots of one of Hollywood's most powerful movie companies.---Provided by fantastic fiction.
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Serge Storms novels volume 1
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English
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A crime comedy on a dentist who mutilates his hands to collect $5 million in insurance. Dr. George Veale is forced into the scam by a woman who videotaped a sex session and is blackmailing him. But after Veale collects he turns the tables.
4) Nathan's run
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A 12-year-old boy goes on the run after being falsely accused of murder. Pursued by police and a hired killer, he breaks into homes, steals cars, a gun--politely leaving notes of apology--and regularly calls a radio show to defend himself. A first novel.
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A British commando and a Wall Street lawyer team up to avenge the murders of their loved ones at the hands of a grisly international drug conspiracy Sean Egan and Sarah Talbot are united by tragedy when his sister and her son are both murdered, their corpses used to smuggle heroin by members of Europe's bloodiest drug ring. Now Egan, an Irish-born British Special Forces operative, and Talbot, a well-connected Wall Street lawyer, will stop at nothing...
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Serge Storms novels volume 11
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English
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Serge A. Storms, Florida's resident madman and serial killer, continues to dispense his own variety of justice against society's evildoers - this time he and his pal Coleman are out to get an assortment of skinheads and shysters as well as a particularly nasty thug called Jellyfish.
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An airliner is hijacked by its pilot who threatens to destroy it unless a passenger confesses to a crime. The passenger is a judge who allegedly covered up for a pedophile who tortured and killed the pilot's daughter. A woman FBI agent comes on board during a refuelling and the two negotiate in the air.
9) Pronto
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 1
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English
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"The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
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Serge Storms novels volume 16
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English
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While treating themselves to a modest vacation in sunny Florida, newly unemployed Wisconsinites Patrick and Barbara McDougall get the ride of a lifetime when they, after being robbed of everything, are rescued by bighearted psychopath and happy tour guide Serge Storms.
12) Solo
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A father's quest for vengeance draws him into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a veteran assassin Piano virtuoso John Mikali's flair as a musician is matched only by his skill as an assassin. The trail of bodies he's left in his wake is proof. But when he kills a young woman while fleeing from a murder scene, the woman's father, a special forces soldier in the British military, vows to avenge his daughter's death. Now, both men are locked in...
13) The hot rock
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Dortmunder novels volume 1
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English
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Edgar Award Finalist: A comical crime caper “filled with action and imagination” (The New York Times Book Review).
John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a...
John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a...
15) Moll Flanders
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.1 - AR Pts: 31
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1390L
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English
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Follows the heroine's adventures from seventeenth-century England to the American colonies.
16) Ice chest
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"Clarissa Cartwright, the planet's most famous beauty, is about to take the stage wearing a fortune in jewels, and not much else. In the wings, a motley crew of bumbling crooks is scheming to make off with the biggest heist of their careers: five and a half million dollars in precious stones, used to create the world's most expensive piece of lingerie. But mix the glitz and glamour of the highest of high fashion with a team of crooks that would have...
18) Edge of battle
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Jason Richter novels volume 2
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English
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Violence and tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border have never been higher, sparked by battles between rival drug lords and an increased flow of illegal migrants. To combat the threat, the United States has executed Operation Rampart: a controversial test base in Southern California run by Major Richter and TALON, his high-tech special operations unit. Their success is threatened by a drug kingpin and migrant smuggler named Ernesto Fuerza. In the...
19) Poison flower
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Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
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Crush volume 03
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"When Zerbe, the honorary brother (and roommate) of LA's toughest bodyguard/bouncer, Crush, is kidnapped, Crush springs into action to save him. Unraveling the mystery takes him to Zerbe's estranged billionaire father, who's obsessed with building California's long-promised bullet train, as well as to Pasadena's famed Rose Parade along Colorado Boulevard. Rich with witty dialogue, nonstop action, and a solid mystery"--
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