Ari Fliakos
41) Arcady's goal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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630L
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English
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When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person--and himself.
42) An honest living
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"A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it. After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colorful assortment...
43) Reviver
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Reviver trilogy volume 01
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English
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"Jonah Miller is a Reviver, able to temporarily revive the dead so they can say goodbye to their loved ones--or tell the police who killed them. Jonah works in a department of forensics created specifically for Revivers, and he's the best in the business. While reviving the victim of a brutal murder, he encounters a terrifying presence. Something is on the other side watching. Waiting. His superiors tell him it's only in his mind, a product of stress....
44) They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER
New York Times bestselling author, Malcolm Nance, offers a chilling warning on a clear, present and existential threat to our democracy... our fellow Americans
"Malcolm Nance is one of the great unsung national security geniuses of the modern era." —Rachel Maddow
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"McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to it to maximize their profits and enhance efficiency. Bogdanich and Forsythe shows that often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting, including layoffs and maintenance reductions, to drive up short-term profits, thereby boosting a company's stock price and the wealth of its...
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Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 2
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English
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"Former disgraced Delta Force commander Kolt 'Racer' Raynor has earned his way back into The Unit after redeeming himself during an explosive operation at a black site in Pakistan. But he is about to face his deadliest challenge yet. The most wanted man in the world, American al Qaeda commander Daoud al Amriki, and his handpicked team of terrorist operatives, have acquired stores of Russian-built, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (SAM's) from...
49) Lost souls
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Reviver trilogy volume 02
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English
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Reviver Jonah Miller, who is able to wake the recently dead for testimony, encounters a terrifying presence that heralds the arrival of an ancient evil--one that believes Jonah is the only thing standing in its way.
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English
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"In Washington, the Kill Committee gathers in the White House's Situation Room to pick the next targets for the United States drone program. At an airbase just outside Las Vegas, a team of pilots, military personnel and intelligence officers follow through on the committee's orders, finding the men who have been deemed a threat to national security and sentenced to death. On the other side of the world, in the mountains where the drones hunt their...
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Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 3
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English
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When a terrorist plot to bomb a nuclear plant in the United States threatens hundreds of thousands of lives, disgraced Delta Force operator Kolt Raynor goes deep undercover to infiltrate al Qaeda.
52) The dead road
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Reviver trilogy volume 03
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English
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The third in Seth Patrick's genre-bending trilogy, following Reviver and Lost Souls, delivers chilling twists as a forensic detective revives the dead to exhume a world-changing conspiracy. Opening with The Reviver and continuing in Lost Souls, this genre-bending series has been described as CSI meets The Sixth Sense . The trilogy takes place in our world, but with a chilling twist: certain people have the ability to wake the recently dead for testimony...
53) One killer force
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Series
Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Still recovering from his near fatal wounds suffered at the Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant, Delta Force Commander Major Kolt 'Racer' Raynor is thrust into a new battle with some of the toughest killers he's ever faced: US Navy SEALs. Government austerity measures have the Joint Chiefs of Staff contemplating the unthinkable--combining Delta Force and the SEALs into a single unit: One Killer Force. In this installment of [Fury's] series, Kolt's career...
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"In 1983, Dustin Tillman's family--his parents and his aunt and uncle--were murdered in a shocking massacre. His foster brother, Rusty, was convicted of the crime, in a trial that was steeped in the "Satanic Cult" paranoia of the 1980s. Thirty years later, Rusty's conviction is overturned, and suddenly Dustin, now a psychologist, must question whether his testimony that imprisoned his brother was accurate. When one of his patients, an ex-cop, gets...
55) The inquisitor
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"Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business--called "information retrieval" by its practitioners--that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on the market. Geiger's clients count on him to extract the truth from even the most reluctant subjects. Unlike most of his competitors, Geiger rarely sheds blood, but he does use a variety of techniques--some physical, many psychological--to push his subjects...
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From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco-and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise...
It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and...
57) Shooting Gallery
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English
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A new short story by New York Times bestselling thriller writer Ben Coes - with time running out, Dewey Andreas is the last hope for a prominent kidnapping victim.
The newly sworn in Vice President of the United States has a problem. Her son, off in college, doesn't care for his security detail. So when Spring Break comes around, he slips away from his bodyguard, picks up his best friend, and heads to Mexico for an intended week of sun, sand, women,...
58) The lemon
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"While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe's chess-master of an agent Nia, ready to call in every favor she is owed to preserve his legacy; down-on-her-luck journalist...
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"Paul Bunyan--legendary larger-than-life lumberjack--is a man down on his luck. With a load of family debts on his broad back, he ekes out a miserable miner's living in Lump Town, a bleak hamlet controlled by famed industrialist El Boffo. When Bunyan's wife, Lucette, falls ill with a disease caused by the mysterious mineral Lump, he embarks on a mission to save her. Bunyan's path leads to the Windy City--and to John Henry. Like Bunyan, Henry is not...
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"Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case--the hunt for a serial killer--went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him. First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant...