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1) Strip tease
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A South Florida topless dancer joins forces with a cop in order to uncover blackmail among government officials.
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Paladin of shadows volume 3
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Lust, Vengeance and Non-stop Action
Mike Harmon's commando-quality retainers agree: their leader, code-named Ghost, is a peculiar one. An ex-Navy-SEAL, there is no stronghold he cannot penetrate, no target he can't take out. But Ghost is also a man struggling to keep the animal inside at bay and his twisted sexual desires satisfied with a rock-hard integrity and incredible force of will.
Now Harmon and his militia have been hired to rescue
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Casey Jordan thrillers volume 2
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2009.
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Years after her first appearance in The Letter of the Law, attorney Casey Jordan has closed her high-powered practice and opened a legal aid clinic. When an illegal Mexican immigrant is shot to death on a ranch outside Dallas, it makes the news not because of the immigrant, but because of the shooter: rising star Senator Tucker Dean. The death appears to be a hunting accident. But the victim's wife disagrees, and Casey approaches the district attorney's...
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Dewey Decimal novel volume 03
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Dewey finds himself in a compromising position running dishonest tasks for Senator Howard while also protecting Saudi royals and finds he must make difficult choices.
6) The bishop
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FBI special agent Patrick Bowers investigates the murder of a congressman's daughter and has difficulty finding links between the crime and other killings in the Northeast, while dealing with his personal life falling apart.
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Fatal series volume 5
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"The wife of the White House deputy chief of staff has been beaten to death, and their one-year-old daughter is missing. D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland is in charge of the murder investigation, but she's forced to collaborate with Special Victims Unit detectives as well as thorn-in-her-side FBI Special Agent Avery Hill. Then, a cold case of her father's resurrects old hurts--a distraction Sam cannot afford. As Sam's investigation heats up, so...
8) Dead silence
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"Political games can be deadly...Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator's life - a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed...
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It's the most unusual medical unit in the galaxy — and it makes house calls. A fully equipped starship lab, Taylor's Ark is run by Dr. Shona Taylor, a specialist in environmental medicine. She has a menagerie of very special assistants, including an Abyssinian cat, a dog, rabbits, mice, and an alien ottle named Chirwl. Now, this highly trained crew faces the ultimate medical mystery. On Chirwl's home world, humans and ottles alike are aging at an...
10) Capitol threat
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Appointed to the U.S. Senate by the governor of Oklahoma, Ben Kincaid is caught in the controversy over conservative Supreme Court nominee Thaddeus Roush, who reveals that he is gay shortly before a woman from his past is found murdered.
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In his brilliant second novel, Dermot McEvoy sweeps his readers into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by...
12) Finders keepers
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"In a moving, unforgettable Southern saga of lost and found, a woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving family must journey through a maze of heartbreak before she can reclaim her true identity. Now in trade paperback for the first time! Raised in a magnificent Charleston house, Jessie Roland wants for nothing. But as she grows into young adulthood, all she feels is loss and a desperate need to break free from the stifling possessiveness...
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Lieutenant George Hastings novels volume 4
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John Reese is a former CIA agent who was framed as a traitor while negotiating a Middle East gun deal as a deep-cover operative. As an ambitious young federal prosecutor, Alan Preston headed the legal team that put Reese away. Fifteen years later, Preston has presidential aspirations, and Reese has escaped from prison. St. Louis police lieutenant George Hastings, at odds with the police hierarchy, is pulled from his homicide beat to coordinate security...
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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...
15) Capitol offense
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 17
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Accused of murdering a police officer he held responsible for the tragic death of his wife, Professor Dennis Thomas implores high-profile lawyer Ben Kincaid to defend him.
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 16
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Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid has found himself smack in the middle of more than a few controversies and deadly predicaments–and the unexpected leap from his modest Tulsa law offices to Washington, D.C.’s Senate chamber hasn’t taken the edge off Ben’s knack for stepping into the line of fire. Now the idealistic junior senator is plunged into the thick of lethal intrigue when a shocking campaign of terror against key government officials...
17) The collectors
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Camel Club novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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The Camel Club, a quartet of eccentrics dedicated to finding out what's really going on in America's government, becomes embroiled in an intriguing and dangerous mystery when the assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House is linked to the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare book room.
18) Twisted prey
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Prey series volume 28
Prey novel volume 28
Thorndike Press large print basic
Lucas Davenport novel volume 28
Prey novel volume 28
Thorndike Press large print basic
Lucas Davenport novel volume 28
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"Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series. Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before. A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she'd fit right in. He was also convinced that she'd been responsible for three murders, though he'd never been able to prove it. Once a psychopath had...
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Gwendy novels volume 3
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"When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...
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