Dick Hill
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English
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When her adoptive father suffers a life-threatening heart attack, Schyler Crandall returns to her hometown of Heaven, Louisiana, after a six-year absence. It isn't just the heat that's sizzling in Heaven. Schyler's sister hates her enough to do her harm; her father's logging empire is about to go under; her beloved home, Belle Terre, may be lost; and Cash Boudreaux threatens Schyler's heart with a sensual pull that's impossible to resist. Unfortunately...
84) Angels flight
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 6
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English
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When an African American lawyer, infamous for his lawsuits alleging racism by LAPD police officers, is murdered on the eve of a sensational trial, Harry Bosch, facing a suspect list that includes half the department, is assigned the case. To make matters worse, Bosch's wife, Eleanor, has disappeared. Bosch fears she has left him, or succumbed to her gambling addiction.
85) The murderers
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A Philadelphia narcotics cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner's wife and partner are gunned down during an attempted robbery. And in a beautiful mansion, a young woman dies of a drug overdose. At first the crimes seem unconnected. But these four deaths are about to trigger a massive convergence of corrupti
86) The target
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FBI suspense thriller series volume 3
Wheeler large print book
FBI thriller) volume 03
FBI thrillers volume 03
Wheeler large print book
FBI thriller) volume 03
FBI thrillers volume 03
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English
Description
A tale of romantic suspense on a judge who finds an unconscious girl in a Colorado forest. On learning the girl escaped kidnapers who may have connections with the Mafia, he helps her mother find them before they strike again.
87) Wizard at large
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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In an attempt to remedy a botched spell, Court Wizard Questor tries to return Court Scribe Abernathy back to human form but instead conjures up an evil imp who then escapes.
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Sword of truth volume 4
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English
Formats
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A fantasy novel featuring wizard Richard Cypher and his betrothed companion, Kahlan Amnell, as they battle an evil emperor who is using magic to spread a plague. But must they, as they are told, really renounce their love to win the fight?
89) Indignation
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Novels volume 02
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English
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What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working...
90) Honor bound
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Honor bound volume 1
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English
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It is fall 1942. First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Spanish-speaking Marine aviator ace fresh from Guadalcanal, is suddenly called to a meeting with a Colonel Graham. Shortly thereafter, so too are Army demolitions expert and parachutist Second Lieutenant Anthony Pelosi, and Army Staff Sergeant and multilingual Counterintelligence Corps special agent David Ettinger, a communications expert who has already escaped from German hands in Europe. The three...
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Pierre Ryder had been raised by a priest who hoped the boy would carry on his ministry in Canada, but one day the boy receives a letter from a father he never knew who is dying, shot by an infamous gunfighter, McGurk. Pierre rushes to his father's side, and as the new found parent dies, vows to find McGurk and beat the gunfighter at his own game.
92) Under fire
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Corps volume 9
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English
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In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy's report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps-and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their...
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In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer has been bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. Before the old woman dies, she utters the word foreign, which may be the only real clue the police have to go on. And they need to work fast. The press has reported the dying word, and white supremacists have threatened a nearby refugee camp, vowing to take justice into their own hands. Recently divorced, overweight, drinking...
94) In danger's path
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During World War II, the OSS mounts a mission to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia to set up a weather station for aerial attacks against the Japanese. By the author of Brotherhood of War.
95) Soft focus
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Elizabeth Cabot faces danger, potential betrayal, and irresistible attraction as she helps her deceptive business partner, Jack Fairfax, search for the scientist who holds the key to a high-tech breakthrough in Jack's industry.
96) Hazardous duty
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"The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea-to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody...
97) Abduction
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The world's bestselling master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook skillfully combines human drama and high-tech thrills with the latest breakthroughs and controversies of modern medicine. Now, in his most daring novel yet, a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding - a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth…...
98) Covert warriors
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At a Mexican roadblock, a U.S. embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint, three of its passengers are murdered, and a fourth is kidnapped. Everything points to the drug cartels, especially when the kidnappers say they will return the hostage if a cartel kingpin is released from U.S. federal prison. But when word gets to Castillo and his group of retired spies and special operators, they have their doubts. They believe that it's a diversion-that they murders...
99) The tangle box
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Magic Kingdom of Landover novel volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
This humorous fantasy concerns Ben Holiday, sovereign of the magic kingdom of Landover, & some exiled sorcerers seeking revenge upon the fairy folk. Everything should have been quiet and pleasant for Ben Holiday, the former Chicago lawyer who became sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. But it wasn't. Horris Kew, conjurer, confidence-man, and trickster, had returned to Landover from Ben's own world. Alas, Horris had not returned of his own volition--he...
100) Tripwire
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After spending 13 years in the military police, Jack Reacher is perfectly content to dig swimming pools by day and bounce at a Key West strip club by night. A man named Costello comes looking for him but is found dead the next day. Tracking Costello's employer takes Reacher to upstate New York and Jodie Garber Jacobs, the daughter of Jack's old commanding officer, Leon Garber. His dying request was to meet with his protege. Why Leon needed to see...