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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
With her self-healing ability widely known, Nita's only chance for survival is to become too feared to be targeted again, starting with killing her betrayer, Fabricio.
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she's sold on the black market in his place.
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
5) Raylan
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that's chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you - especially when it's sold off piece by piece. So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it's up to U.S. Marshal...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"[A] novel about the life-changing journey of a young man who travels from New Jersey to Khrushchevs Russia and the beaches of Southern France as he finds love and discovers the long-hidden secrets about his heritage"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
8) Lethal cargo
Author
Series
Hardy boys casefiles volume 67
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Hardys are sailing a friend's yacht to the coast of Florida when a 5,000-ton cargo ship appears out of nowhere and nearly sends the yacht to the bottom. When the boys investigate they discover that the ship's crew is missing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...
10) Offer of Revenge
Author
Series
American Mercenary volume 2
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"David Rivers wants vengeance. But there's only one way to kill his greatest enemy -- David must first join the secretive organization that slaughtered the only family he had. To prove his allegiance, he enters a life-or-death battle in the badlands of Somalia. But the closer David gets to his target, the more he realizes that the betrayal of his team was not as random as he thought. Someone inside the organization seems to know his true purpose,...
Author
Series
The relics trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Angela Gough has been pulled into this world, making her a criminal on the run. In London she encountered the Kin--satyrs and centaurs, Nephilim and wraiths, they are hunted and slaughtered for their body parts. Fleeing back to the United States, Angela discovers that the Kin are everywhere, and they are tired of being prey. When her niece Sammi is struck by lightning, she is drawn toward the mysterious Folded Land, and its powerful and deadly ruler....
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"For more than one hundred years the West has failed to understand Islam" (U.S. State Department Official, 1992). This quote from the original edition of Riders of the Pale Horse introduces the story of two young Americans, a foreign-service officer and a mission volunteer who cross paths near the Afghanistan border on very different assignments and yet with a common goal: to stop nuclear materials from falling into terrorists' hands. High-stakes...
13) Dark Redemption
Author
Series
American Mercenary volume 3
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An assassin on the brink of destruction. The leader of a global crime syndicate. And the meeting of two fatal enemies...
David Rivers killed the man who betrayed his team. Now, he's after the faceless mastermind who gave the order. To the criminal world, this man is known only as the Handler. And for the first time, he is within David's reach. But in order to get close to the Handler, David must first serve him. This time, the task is new:...
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With her best friend, Kovit's, life in danger, Nita is determined to take down the black market once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: An illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws. Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, has never had to fear the law. Determined to earn his father's respect, Nathaniel sets out to capture the Technician. But the more he learns about the outlaw, the more...
Author
Series
Shadow strike volume 6
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"David Rivers is an expert in the art of violence. Together with his team of CIA operatives, he's executed dozens of covert assassinations--but this mission might turn out to be his deadliest yet. One man stands behind the transfer of high-level military hardware to an international terrorist syndicate. The CIA has uncovered his identity: Yuri Sidorov, a Russian arms dealer with state protection. With the arms deal only days away, David and the team...
18) Peyote Wolf
Author
Series
Fernando Lopez Santa Fe mystery volume 2
Publisher
Sunstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A man in a wolf mask burst into a teepee in the middle of a sacred ritual, a peyote ceremony, and kills Michael Soto, the owner of Sabado Indian Arts on the Santa Fe Plaza. The next morning Detective Fernando Lopez, a member of an old Santa Fe family, receives a complaint from two Zuni that an important tribal object, a carved wooden war go called an ahayu:da, has bee stolen from their pueblo. They show him an anonymous letter sent to the Zuni Tribal...
19) Copper Beach
Author
Series
Dark legacy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Within the pages of very rare books, some centuries old, lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes -- and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessibve collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market. A number of ruthless people...
20) 12.21: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's December 2012--only days away from the day the Mayan's believed the world would be destroyed, when Dr. Gabriel Stanton is called to the bedside of a man suffering from fatal insomnia. Meanwhile, a young Guatemalan-American scholar is given a priceless codex from the lost kingdom of the Maya. Little does he know it's linked to the dying man and the key to stopping the end of the world.