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2) The enemy
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Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina...
3) Savage run
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Joe Pickett novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett uncovers a conspiracy in this explosive novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When a massive blast rocks the forests of Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called to the scene to help investigate the death of a colorful environmental activist. The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn't convinced. He soon discovers clues that...
4) High crimes
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High-profile attorney and Harvard Law professor Claire Heller Chapman puts her career on the line to defend her husband after he is revealed to be a former secret operative for the U.S. government and is arrested for an unspeakable atrocity committed some thirteen years earlier.
5) Dead aim
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Eve Duncan volume 4.5
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Celebrated photojournalist Alex Graham, having learned the dangerous truth about the collapse of the Arapahoe Dam, finds herself the target of a killer who wants his plans to remain secret, and her situation is further complicated when undercover agent Judd Morgan--a man dogged by his own assassin--is assigned to protect her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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620L
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Teased for his youth and diminutive stature, twelve-year-old Fletcher Moon is a fully-licensed detective who, while investigating his first case, is framed for arson and must team up with his prime suspect to clear his name and find the real criminal.
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When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.
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When Kidd-artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal-learns of a colleague's murder, he doesn't buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It's not what his friend was looking for that got him killed. It's what he already knew. For Kidd and LuEllen, infiltrating the firm is the first move. Discovering the secrets of its devious entrepreneur is the next. But it's...
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Charlie Marder, a World War II veteran and popular academic, is an unlikely congressman. Thrust into office by his power-broker father's connections, Charlie is determined to use his new position for good. He quickly learns, however, that in 1950's Washington, little is as it seems. Struggling to navigate the treacherous waters alongside real-life figures such as President Dwight Eisenhower, Senator John F. Kennedy, and Roy Cohn, Charlie is confronted...
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It began as a problem in a beehive, led to a murderous cult, and ended - or so they'd hoped - with an escape from a sacrificial altar. Instead, Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath of those they've thwarted. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy. They will have to survive apart, maintaining contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic...
11) Flash and bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 14
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"A body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for race week. The next day, a NASCAR crew member shares with Tempe a devastating story. Twelve years earlier his sister, Cyndi Gamble, then a high school senior who wanted to be a professional racecar driver, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right wing extremists known...
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Thea Kozak believes it's her job to be the strong one in a crisis. She's survived her husband's death and her sister's brutal murder. She's gone head to head with bad guys and lived to fight another day. She's a survivor who has used her courage and strength to help others. But now Thea is looking forward to an oasis of happily ever after with Andre Lemieux, the Maine state trooper she met when her sister was killed.
The way to their wedding
...14) Hour of the cat
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Fintan Dunne trilogy volume 1
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In a simple New York City homicide, indistinguishable from hundreds of others in 1938, a spinster nurse is killed in her apartment, and a suspect is caught and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured into the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has put an innocent man on death row, will soon find this to be a murder with tentacles that stretch far beyond the crime scene--to Nazi Germany, in fact. Following it to the...
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When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up, a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family. She arrives at the gallery one morning to meet her boss, Drew Campbell, only to find the place cleaned out, save for Drew's corpse. She is bewildered...
16) Hope rides again
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Following a successful but exhausting book tour, Joe Biden has got one last stop to make: Chicago, where the Obama Foundation is holding its first annual global economics forum. Barack Obama has invited Joe to meet a wealthy left-leaning philanthropist, whose deep pockets Joe will need if he decides to run for president. When Obama's prized Blackberry is stolen-- and the suspect turns up comatose from a gunshot wound-- police are content with writing...
17) Safe houses
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HL 800L
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West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when, during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities far beyond her comprehension. Before the day is out, she witnesses...
18) The sacred cut
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Nic Costa mysteries volume 3
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When Detective Nic Costa investigates the killing of a woman whose body is found on the floor of the Pantheon, he is caught in the middle of an ambush that costs him his only witness and follows a deadly trail that leads to more gruesome murders
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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900L
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While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer. She is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
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Repairman Jack must find a way to negotiate the shadowy world of conspiracy when he is hired to find Melanie Ehler, a woman who disappeared shortly after announcing her plans to unveil her Grand Unification Theory, leaving behind a cryptic message that only Jack could find her.
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