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1) Silken prey
Author
Series
Prey series volume 23
Thorndike Press large print basic
Lucas Davenport novel volume 23
Prey novel volume 23
Thorndike Press large print basic
Lucas Davenport novel volume 23
Prey novel volume 23
Language
English
Description
At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...
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English
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"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
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Series
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English
Description
In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming -- the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower -- to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a military-grade vehicle donated...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to more than two dozen of history's most notorious women shares the stories of such figures as Tituba, Lizzie Borden, and Cleopatra, and allows the readers to draw their own conclusions about each woman's guilt.
5) Wild things
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English
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Set in Florida's exclusive Blue Bay beach community. The ties that bind are as murky as the Everglades. Accused of rape by two scheming high school femme fatales, a student counselor is trailed by both a detective and a slick attorney who bust their devious scam wide open.
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English
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Author of the New York Times Notable Book The Boy Who Went Away-winner of the Rome Prize and the British Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize-Eli Gottlieb returns with The Face Thief. A powerfully dark and gripping tale of two men obsessed with one very charismatic, very damaged woman who's determined to con from each of them everything she needs to survive, The Face Thief offers highest quality psychological suspense-an ideal follow up to the author's...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
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Description
Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service, and she jumps at the chance for a normal life. But soon enough, secrets from her past destroy everything she₂s worked for, and now nobody can stand in her way as she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.
Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine...
Author
Series
Fatale volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The dark days of the Great Depression, ancient secrets of the Middle Ages, haunted plains of the old West, and bombed out ruins of World War Two ... The third book of the hit series Fatale features four interlinked stories of horror and noir, each one a puzzle piece in the mystery of the Femme Fatale."--
12) Femme
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Nameless Detective is enlisted to help Cory Beckett track down her younger brother who has jumped bail after being arrested for stealing a valuable diamond necklace belonging to the wife of a powerful San Francisco union leader.
13) Focus
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Master con man Nicky Spurgeon's latest scheme is in jeopardy when Jess, an old flame and now an accomplished con artist in her own right, shows up unexpectedly in Buenos Aires during the car racing season.
14) Bringing up Baby
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Series
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English
Description
"When Steve Emery visits the steamy tropics of Trinidad, he gets more than he bargained for. Someone's murdered his brother, and his bombshell sister-for-law Chris might be the only one who can solve the mystery. Despite conflicting feelings of lust and loyalty, Chris and Steve must work together to track down the killer before the culprit catches them"--Container.
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After finding $60,000 in hot money [femme fatale] Jane tries to convince her nervous husband that they should keep it. When a thug, Danny, shows up to claim the cash, she strikes a deal to murder her uncooperative husband and split the dough with him. In a double cross she escapes to Mexico with the entire stash, unaware that she is being trailed by a stranger with an old debt to settle. - publisher
18) Goldeneye
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Pierce Brosnan makes his debut as Agent 007 in this espionage thriller. When an MI6 agent Turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland, and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the squeeze on the intrepid spy.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Kitty discovers Nick is having an affair with the sultry seductress Tula, their rocky relationship gets a whole lot rockier. Nick finds himself facing a full-scale revolt from his daughters at home, and Kitty enlists her oddball cousin Bo to track down Tula. Deals with love and hate, life and death, and romance and cigarettes.
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