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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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Description
A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined.
Author
Series
Elite guardians volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When someone is willing to go to any lengths to put restaurant owner Daniel Matthews out of business, it's up to bodyguard Katie Singleton to keep her handsome but reluctant client alive.
Author
Series
Elite guardians volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Olivia Edwards's skills as a bodyguard are pushed to the limit as she must protect talk show host Wade Savage and stay out of a killer's path.
4) Double play
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
5) Next in line
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Series
Language
English
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"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess." Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team....
6) Hot target
Author
Series
Troubleshooters volume 8
Language
English
Description
A movie producer receives death threats because of her latest film -- a World War II epic that depicts the homosexuality of a real-life hero
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
After a group of lingerie models are threatened, Ethan Brodie is brought on to protect them, and when one is murdered, he finds himself drawn closer to the breathtaking Valentine Hart, as he gets closer to the answers he needs to solve the crime.
Author
Series
Alaskan royal family novels volume 3
Publisher
Brava
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey Rodinov is descended from one of the oldest families in Alaska, and a Rodinov has been protecting a Baranov for generations. No one ever sees Jeffrey Rodinov coming, and no one-not even a mouthy, illegitimate princess-is going to keep him from playing bodyguard when his king decrees it.
But no Rodinov ever had to protect Princess Nicole Krenski. Her credentials? Hunting guide in the Alaskan wilderness. Smart. Stubborn bordering on exasperating....
Author
Series
Modern love volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Alisha Rai's second novel in her Modern Love series, a reclusive investor goes viral, shoving her into the world's spotlight--and into the arms of the bodyguard she's been pining for."--Publisher's description.
11) Full throttle
Author
Series
Black Knights Inc volume 7
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the president's daughter, Abby Thompson, is kidnapped, it's up to Carlos "Steady" Soto to rescue the only woman he ever loved--and the only woman who ever broke his heart.
12) Blood song
Author
Series
Blood singer novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Bodyguard Celia Graves has definitely accepted her share of weird assignments, both human and supernatural. But her newest job takes the cake. Guarding a prince from terrorists and religious fundamentalists is hard enough, but it seems like the entire supernatural world is after this guy too. When she is betrayed by those she is employed to help, and everything goes horribly wrong, Celia wakes to find herself transformed. Neither human nor vampire,...
13) Hero under cover
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A fan favorite from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann. When Pete Taylor first offers his services as a bodyguard, Annie Morgan wants nothingto do with him. She's sure that the death threats against her aren't serious. After all, while the artifact she's working on is valuable, it's certainly not worth killing for. Butafter someone does make an attempt on her life, Annie is glad to have Pete around. Sheowes him her life, and suddenly,...
14) Moving Target
Author
Series
Elite guardians volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When Maddy McKay and Quinn Holcombe don't show up for Quinn's surprise birthday party, his friends know that something is very wrong. Their search turns up little beyond evidence that Quinn and Maddy just decided to take off for a long overdue vacation. But it soon becomes apparent that they did not leave of their own accord"--Amazon.com.
15) Rage factor
Author
Series
Dixie Flannigan novels volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Chris Rogers' novels starring no-nonsense bounty hunter Dixie Flanagan get high marks from fans. Dixie can't believe a jury has acquitted serial rapist Lawrence Coombs. But when a group of women calling themselves the Avenging Angels attacks Coombs, Dixie's implicated-and that's just the start of her troubles.
16) The bodyguard
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton...
17) Armored: a novel
Author
Series
Joshua Duffey volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent-a professional bodyguard- and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until hislast mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high-the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury....
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Language
English
Description
Matt Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son . . . Once Stromsoe was best friends with brilliant, unpredictable Mike Tavarez. That was before Matt joined the San Diego P.D. and Mike left Harvard to run La Eme, the brutal Mexican Mafia, before a vengeance-obsessed Tavarez blew away everything Stromsoe loved, leaving him physically and emotionally broken. Years later, Mike Tavarez is in prison for life,...
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Language
English
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When journalist Jessie Kegans father is accused of espionage and treason, Jessie has no doubt the man she looked up to her entire life is innocent. Worse yet, before Colonel Kegan can stand trial, he's found dead of a heart attack, but Jessie knows it was murder. Forcing down her grief, shes determined to use her investigative skills and resources to clear her fathers name. But going after the truth means Jessie soon finds herself in the crosshairs...
20) Simply sensual
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2004], c2001
Language
English
Description
Easy money. That's why P.I. Ben Callahan agrees to take the job of watching over spoiled heiress Grace Montgomery. But he soon discovers she has a reckless streak a mile wide. She's determined to experience everything she's been missing...including a chance to explore her sensual side.