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41) Mounting fears
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Incumbent U.S. president William Jefferson Lee struggles to be reelected as he deals with a scandal involving his vice president and a love triangle, the disappearance of a nuclear warhead which may be in the hands of terrorists, and a charismatic candidate who is closing in on him in the polls.
43) D.C. dead
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House"--
44) Rebound
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 1
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cruz Coronado leaves his home in Hawaii to study and travel with other young people invited to attend the elite Explorer Academy in Washington, D.C.
46) House arrest
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As the fixer for Congressman John Mahoney in Washington, D.C., Joe DeMarco has had to bend and break the law more than a few times. But when Representative Lyle Canton, House Majority Whip, is found shot dead in his office in the U.S. Capitol and DeMarco is arrested for the murder, DeMarco knows he's been framed. Locked up in the Alexandria Jail awaiting trial, he calls on his enigmatic friend Emma, an ex-DIA agent, to search for the true killer....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens--but when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington, D.C., she finds herself involved in a sinister and dangerous plot against the president of the United States.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda volume 6
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The seventh graders of McQuarrie Middle School and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 27
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
51) Pursuit
Author
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Amateur Washington, D.C., lawyer Jessica Ford, having agreed to meet with the First Lady when her boss could not make the appointment, wakes up in the hospital with amnesia after being the only survivor in an accident in which the First Lady was killed, and after the senior partner and his assistant at her law firm are killed, realizes that if she begins to recall the events of that fateful night, her life might be in danger too.
53) The spy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Van Dorn Detective Agency assigns Isaac Bell, a private investigator, to a case that will reveal whether a brilliant American battleship gun designer's death was a suicide or murder, but Bell uncovers a plot set to destroy the great minds of America that are somehow connected to a secret project known as Hull 44.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When a young boy is discovered in Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art without any recollection of who he is, he must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using his limited knowledge to stop one of the greatest art frauds ever attempted"--
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Four middle-schoolers visiting the Smithsonian discover that someone is tampering with history. They use their history and science smarts to foil the bad guys trying to rewrite history! With the help of a mysterious museum 'fabrications specialist' named Al, they travel through time to try and restore the Wright Brothers to their well-earned place in history"--Page 4 of cover.
56) Justice
Author
Series
Jessica Ford volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Feisty criminal attorney Jessica Ford has done her best to comply with the orders of the Secret Service’s unofficial witness protection program ever since she became the lone witness to the First Lady’s murder. Unfortunately, winning her first high-profile case for a prestigious Washington, D.C., law firm, subsequently landing her face all over the news, is not exactly “keeping a low profile.” Or so says hunky Secret Service agent Mark Ryan,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house Merlin missions volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Mitch Rapp, an elite counterterrorism operative, deals with the political uproar after a series of explosions devastates Washington, D. C., and must track down the three al-Qaida terrorists that are still at large, with help from Mike Nash, a trusted teammate who is mentally shaken after the attacks.
59) Zero day
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eight years after being kidnapped Addie Webster, now sixteen, resurfaces under mysterious circumstances, significantly changed, and her childhood best friend, Darrow Fergusson, is asked by a national security advisor to spy on her to uncover whether she is a threat to her father's Presidency or the nation.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
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