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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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930L
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English
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a heroic World Trade Center victim, a financial manager who is suffering from amnesia struggles to relate to a family he does not remember, while his wife, believing herself a widow, is comforted by her brother-in-law.
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X-OPS volume 1
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English
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When Special Forces Captain Landon Donovan is pulled from an op in Afghanistan, he is surprised to discover he's been hand-picked for a special assignment with the Department of Covert Operations (DCO), a secret division he's never heard of. Terrorists are kidnapping biologists and he and his partner have to stop them. But his new partner is a beautiful, sexy woman who looks like she couldn't hurt a fly--never mind take down a terrorist. She's Not...
4) Chosen
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Full circle series volume 5
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English
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Alexana is willing to risk her life to make history, & nothing--not even love--will stand in her way! As supervisor of the historically significat Solomon's Stables dig, archaeologist Alexana Rourke, grad school friend of Dr. Christina Alvarez (Treasure), knows she's in serios danger. Yet she's determined that nothing will impede her excavations under the Temple Mount, not even the concern of handsome, world-reknowned news correspondant Ridge
...5) Toxic game
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan takes readers into the hot zone in this pulse-pounding GhostWalker novel. On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible--or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He will not risk exposing anyone else....
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English
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Simon Blackthorne goes to Africa to continue the war against paranormal terror. While there he meets Kess Goodal, who is struggling to unravel a deadly plague that has killed millions. Together they fight to save the country of Mallaruza before it is lost to terrorist control.
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An American family disintegrates after a daughter is killed in an Italian terrorist bomb in 1980s Bologna. The mother enters a convent, the father has an affair with the daughter of his mistress, the remaining children leave. The climax comes when the father meets the woman who placed the bomb and discovers what prompts people to become killers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
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.
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"'I need your help.' Bodyguarding is Kyra Morgan's business--but this was supposed to be a vacation. Still, she can't refuse the request from childhood friend and neighbor Michael Hunt. Michael's sister Amy ran away after witnessing a murder. Michael needs Kyra's help to find her and keep her safe. Yet as Kyra and Michael follow the trail along the Florida coast, their search grows more dangerous by the day. Terrorists are at work, and the stakes...
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Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
11) Queen of hearts
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Years after losing her husband and children to terrorists, Rhiannan Collins encounters Kiel Whellen, a congressman whose fiancée had also perished in the tragedy and the man whom Rhiannon holds responsible for her pain.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Daniel Youngblood is a world-weary oil and gas investment banker who's ready to hit the beach, when he's hired by Yassar, a Saudi Prince, and OPEC's most powerful board member. Daniel's engaged to help Yassar acquire oil refining companies for OPEC in deals where he can net himself $25 million. At the same time, he meets Lydia, an exotic European fashion photographer. Just as he's falling in love with her, he discovers she's a CIA-trained spy with...
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