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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
930L
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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,...
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John Corey novels volume 4
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English
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Ex-NYPD detective John Corey, working with the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in 2002, teams up with his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, in an attempt to stop a madman who hopes to provoke an all-out nuclear war by detonating bombs in two U.S. cities.
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Growing up as an orphan, Razumou adopted the belief that all of Russia was his family, a sentiment that he carries into his higher education. Because of this, when talks of revolution start arising in Russia, Razumou decides to stay neutral. However, this becomes increasingly difficult when most of his classmates start to express their ardent support for a revolution. Still, Razumou decides not to take a stand on either side. Since he feels all of...
4) Scorpia
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Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
5) Game over
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MindWar trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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"Rick emerged victorious from The Realm twice. Is his luck about to run out?"--
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Terrorists aim to create a mega-tsunami with a nuclear missile in this military thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Barracuda 945.
Amid the Canary Islands lies the massive crater of the volcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will erupt, triggering a series of events that will lead to a tsunami higher than any in recorded history. This mega-tsunami, with waves of more than 150...
Amid the Canary Islands lies the massive crater of the volcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will erupt, triggering a series of events that will lead to a tsunami higher than any in recorded history. This mega-tsunami, with waves of more than 150...
8) Runner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 1
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English
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Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, calls on former intelligence operative Gabriel Allon to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the Middle East peace negotiations, a conspiracy linked to a Palestinian zealot with ties to Gabriel's past.
10) Black sunday
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From the genius of Thomas Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author who introduced the world to Hannibal Lecter, comes the terrifying and prophetic novel that set the standard for international suspense and heralded one of the most arresting voices in contemporary fiction.
It’s the event of the year. Eighty thousand fans have converged in New Orleans for Super Bowl Sunday. Among them is a young man named Michael...
It’s the event of the year. Eighty thousand fans have converged in New Orleans for Super Bowl Sunday. Among them is a young man named Michael...
11) Falling man
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Keith Neudecker, a survivor of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, returns home from the ruins to his wife Lianne, from whom he had separated, and his young son Justin, and finds in the aftermath that he has become a very different man.
12) Big game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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13-year-old Oskari is sent into the cold wilderness on an ancient test of manhood. He must survive armed only with a bow and arrow. But instead, he stumbles upon an escape pod from a burning airliner: Air Force One. Terrorists have shot down the President of the United States. The boy hunter and the world's most powerful man are suddenly the hunted, in a race against a deadly enemy.
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Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative, begins a race against time to find a nuclear weapon that AL Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor is moving toward Israel; he must overcome the skepticism of the CIA and the White House, find the bomb, and disable it before it causes the Middle East to go up in flames.
14) Knockdown
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Rig warrior volume 4
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English
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A legend in the intelligence community, Barry Rivers is called in to track down the enemies in the U.S. government responsible for a perfectly orchestrated assault on a mass-transit railroad line that left countless Americans dead.
15) Touchstone
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Hailed for her rich and powerful works of psychological suspense as well as her New York Times bestselling mysteries, Laurie R. King now takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall where a gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions begins with a visit to a recluse upon whom the fate of an entire nation may rest—a man code-named . . .
It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s...
It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s...
16) Critical mass
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The searing new novel from bestselling author Strieber explores the unthinkable but very real possibility of terrorists launching a nuclear weapon.
17) The mirage
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In the summer of 2009, Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi is plunged into a conspiracy involving Suddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee when a captured suicide bomber claims that the world in which they live is a mirage.
18) Skeleton Key
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Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
19) Blink of an eye
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It is America's worst nightmare: A nuclear bomb destroys a major city, killing thousands. Many more will die. Threats of more attacks spread panic. National security advisor Sean Falcone is tasked with identifying and tracking down the attackers. Powerful forces in the Capitol point the finger at Iran, but Falcone discovers an astonishing secret hidden among the upper echelons of Washington's elite. Will the President - or the American people - believe...
20) Enemies among us
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A renegade undercover FBI agent tracking terrorists in Los Angeles begins to realize how small this world is, and how big life's stakes are.
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