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Author
Language
English
Description
While Sara Evans is researching a murder case, she finds evidence that links the murderer to the Supreme Court, and soon she finds herself trying to save the escaped convict so that she can uncover the conspiracy that is killing some of the most influential people in the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Just returned from a tough job in Mexico, Stahl is at first reluctant to accept the offer, but his sense of duty to the technicians he trained is too strong to turn it down"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
6) Mercy
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Justice Department attorney Theo Buchanan investigates the actions of an elite group of criminals who call themselves the Sowing Club, and as he uncovers clues about the members' identities, Theo learns that the woman he loves may be their next target.
8) Homeland
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
9) Twelve days
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
John "Wells, with his former CIA bosses Ellis Shafer and Vinnie Duto, has uncovered a staggering plot, a false-flag operation to convince the President to attack Iran. But they have no hard evidence, and no one at Langley or the White House will listen. Now the President has set a deadline for Iran to give up its nuclear program, and the mullahs in Tehran--furious and frightened--have responded with a deadly terrorist attack. Wells, Shafer, and Duto...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Uhtred, having helped the Saxon king Alfred defeat the Danes, heads for Dunholm intending to free his stepsister who is being held prisoner in the Danish stronghold, and along the way falls in with Guthred, the self-proclaimed King of Northumbria, who has much to learn from Uhtred about battle, politics, and the ways of a monarch.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Danes of East Anglia and the Vikings of Northumbria are plotting the conquest of all Britain. When King Alfred's daughter pleads with Uhtred for help, he cannot refuse her request. In a desperate gamble, he takes command of a demoralized Mercian army, leading them in an unforgettable battle on a blood-soaked field beside the Thames.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Retells, in graphic novel format, the history of the author's namesake, an officer and spy for the American rebels during the Revolutionary War, revealing facts about Nathan Hale's earlier days at Yale and his unlucky experiences as an military officer.
16) The Whites
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in [the South Bronx] known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a [4:00] a.m. call about the fatal knifing of...
Author
Series
Inspector Lynley volume 16
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
While DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought into the Met as his temporary replacement. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle the chance to make her mark with a high profile murder investigation. Persuading Lynley back to work seems the best way to guarantee a result: Lynley's team is fiercely loyal to him and Isabelle needs them - and especially Barbara...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Time-traveling Nathan Hale tells the story of the Civil War naval battle between two ironclad ships: the United States' Monitor and the Confederate Merrimack. Includes a time line of the real William B. Cushing's experiences in the Civil War.
19) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
The Infernal Devices volume 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
King Alfred is dying and his passing threatens the island of Britain to renewed warfare. Alfred wants his son, Edward, to succeed him but there are other Saxon claimants to the throne as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north.
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