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21) Fan-Tan
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Anatole "Annie" Doultry is in his early fifties, with an imposing physical presence and a reputation to match. In 1927, he is serving six months in a hellish Hong Kong prison where, on a whim, he saves the life of a Chinese prisoner.The prisoner's employer happens to be Madame Lai Choi San. Beautiful, ruthless, and shrewd, she is one of the most notorious gangsters in Asia. When Annie gets out of prison, Madame Lai thanks him with an offer of inconceivable...
22) Blind eye
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 5
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Investigator Logan McRae tackles another thankless case in gritty Aberdeen, Scotland. Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a brave new world of drug wars, prostitution rings, and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen's oldest and most vicious crime lord.
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"In a driving sleet storm, a farmer has discovered a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond realizes it's her elderly friend, Alice. Meanwhile, at the Golden Play Casino, robbers posing as armored-car guards kill a local stickball hero and friend of Chickasaw Lighthorse Police detective Bill Maytubby. The trail leads through the quarry-scarred Oklahoma badlands to a remote airstrip and a planeload...
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Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman...
25) Gloriana's torch
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In 1587, ex-soldier David Becket struggles to deal with his tortured past and the discovery that someone in the heart of the English Commonwealth may be selling munitions to the Spanish.
26) Sharp
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Mindspace Investigations volume 2
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"As a Level Eight telepath, I am the best police interrogator in the department. But I'm not a cop and I never will be. My only friend on the force, Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino, is avoiding me because of a telepathic link I created by accident. And I might not even be an interrogator for much longer. Our boss says unless I pull out a miracle, I'll be gone before Christmas. I need this job, damn it. It's the only thing keeping me sane. Parts...
27) Burnt sienna
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Painter Chase Malone is commissioned to paint Sienna, the beautiful wife of a powerful international arms dealer who had his last three wives murdered right after their portraits were completed.
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Hardheaded ATF legend Quint Casey knows he's playing with fire asking Agent Ree Sheppard to re-up as his undercover wife. To crack a ruthless Houston weapons ring, they must keep the mission--and their explosive chemistry--under control. But Quint's determined need for revenge and Ree's risky moves are turning the heat up even more and putting everything on the line...
30) Liberty
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Learning that a terrorist network has obtained easily transportable nuclear weapons and is being aided by an American traitor with access to the highest levels of government, Jake Grafton is given orders by the president to stop an attack.
31) The cattleman
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A city girl like Beth Conrad had no business on Nick Burke's Texas ranch. Even if the city girl in question was a DEA agent investigating gunrunners supposedly using Nick's land as a staging ground. One look in her eyes and he couldn't resist helping with her sure-to-fail mission...or his undeniable attraction to her. But Nick was fighting demons from his past, which left little room for romance. Beth vowed to help Nick face his PTSD, and Nick promised...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Two young Americans, foreign service officer Allison Taylor and medical missionary Wade Waters, become embroiled in an international conspiracy to smuggle bomb-making materials into Islamic countries when their work brings them to the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
34) Bird's-eye view
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While bird-watching on his family's estate in southern Maryland, exiled academic Fritz Tullis witnesses an illegal arms related murder involving government officials and becomes caught up in a dangerous game.
35) Valdez is coming
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First in the "New York Times" bestselling author's classic Western series. Part-time constable Robert Valdez was sent to deal with a man holed up in a shack with a gun--and was set up with no choice but to gun the man down! Valdez killed an innocent man, and when he asked for justice, Valdez was beaten and left for dead. Now he's returned, and the powerful men who set him up begin to die.
36) Skystorm
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Ryan Decker novels volume 4
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[2021]
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After covert investigators Ryan Decker and Harlow Mackenzie demolished APEX, a billion-dollar criminal enterprise, a tenuous truce between the two factions suggested the battle was over. But not for Decker's director, Senator Margaret Steele. She's uncovered an even deadlier operation-code name Skystorm. Skystorm violates every international arms-trafficking law imaginable. And for the senator, exposing the plot may be a gamble too far. APEX has caught...
37) Hot rain
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Allie Parker knows her best friend's death was no accident, but her quest to find the truth soon puts her in the wrong place -- at the worst possible time. An unwilling passenger on a boat carrying deadly cargo and dangerous men, Allie's only hope is mysterious Jake Dawson, who warns her that she must play the role of his woman... if she wants to stay alive. Under any other circumstances, she'd welcome the attentions of a man with Jake's powerful...
38) Black ice
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[Ice volume 1
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Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion -- even a little danger. So when she's offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote chateau, she jumps at the chance to shake things up.Then by chance Chloe discovers her employers are anything but the entrepreneurs they appear, and suddenly she knows far too much. Her clients are illegal...
39) A beam of light
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Salvo Montalbano mysteries volume 19
Inspector Montalbano volume 19
Inspector Montalbano mystery volume 20
Inspector Montalbano volume 19
Inspector Montalbano mystery volume 20
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When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner, Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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