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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Paul Janson, a former operative and assassin for the U.S. covert agency Consular Operations, is surprised to find himself marked for death after his attempt to rescue Nobel Prize-winning philanthropist Peter Novak, who has been kidnapped and slated for execution by terrorists, goes terribly wrong.
22) The bulletproof diet: lose up to a pound a day, reclaim your energy and focus, and upgrade your life
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In his midtwenties, Dave Asprey was a successful Silicon Valley multimillionaire. He also weighed 300 pounds, despite the fact that he was doing what doctors recommended: eating 1,800 calories a day and working out 90 minutes a day, six times a week. When his excess fat started causing brain fog and food cravings sapped his energy and willpower, Asprey turned to the same hacking techniques that made his fortune to 'hack' his own biology, investing...
Author
Series
Scot Harvath volume 10
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don’t exist. When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and total collapse of the United States. With the CIA’s intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There's just one problem--no one knows if she can be trusted. But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one political-asylum seeker is arrested, a deadly chain of events is set in motion. With the United States facing an imminent and devastating attack, America's new president must turn to covert counterterrorism...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Rapp heads to Pakistan to confront a mortal threat he may not be prepared for. In fact, this time he might have met his match. Mitch Rapp is used to winning. But now the CIA operative finds himself chasing false leads from continent to continent in an effort to keep nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists. Together with friend and colleague Scott Coleman, Rapp struggles to prevent the loss of these lethal weapons, and soon it becomes alarmingly...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Miracles come to the town of Cape Light when Sam and Jessica Morgan, burned out of their home just a few weeks before Christmas, come to understand the real meaning of the holiday, and tree farmer Jack Sawyer, bitter since the death of his wife, gets a second chance at life and love when single mom Julie Newton and her young daughter arrive on his doorstep in need of help.
30) Dead or alive
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr. and his Campus colleagues John Clark and Ding Chavez, go after a vicious terrorist mastermind--the Emir--and they will bring him in ... dead or alive.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp volume 11
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn delivers a white-knuckled rollercoaster ride of a novel featuring “the best hero the thriller genre has to offer” (The Real Book Spy) as Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated—and as lethal—as they come.
Counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his colleague Mike Nash may have finally met their match. The CIA has intercepted two terrorist...
34) Smoke jumper
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Action photographs and text provide an introduction to the dangerous job of smokejumping, describing how the smoke jumper fights wildfires, the equipment needed, and training required and includes a glossary and resources.
35) Use of force
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor comes "his very best" (The Washington Times) thriller, following covert operative Scot Harvath as he is called upon to stop an ISIS-led plot to destroy the Vatican.
As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore. Identified as a high value but...
As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore. Identified as a high value but...
37) Abuse of power
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Reporter Jack Hatfield's national career was ruined after he was smeared as a bigot and extremist by a radical leftist media-watchdog group, leaving him to work in obscurity as a freelance news producer in San Francisco, but while on a ride-along with a bomb squad on a carjacking, Jack discovers the story of his life that leads him on a trail to Tel Aviv, London, Paris, and back again as he tries to expose a terrorist group plotting an attack that...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.
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