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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...
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.
4) Relics
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Language
English
Description
There's an underground black market for arcane things: remains of gryphons, faeries, goblins, and other fantastic creatures. When Angela Gough's fiancé Vince goes missing, she discovers that he was a part of this secretive trade. It's a big-money business, shadowy, brutal, and sometimes fatal. As the trail leads deeper into London's dark side, Angela crosses paths with a crime lord whose life is dedicated to collecting such relics... and some of...
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....
6) 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...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
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
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A group of American patriots, all former military, are looking for a way to get their number one choice, Senator Ben Corn, elected president. Corn is a telegenic, perfect candidate-yet harbors secrets that threaten him. The group's goal is to implement their own foreign policy and fundamentally restructure American society. Essential to this scheme is Greta Webb, a sophisticated and beautiful CIA agent who is an expert on how global dark money flows,...
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.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Mariana van Zeller explores the inner workings of the global underworld's most dangerous black markets. In each episode, she journeys inside a different black market from drugs to guns to tiger parts to meet the players, learn the business, and unearth the geopolitical circumstances and context that create the world's multitrillion-dollar shadow economy."--container
15) A distant heart
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...
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"--
17) Pinnacle event
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...
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...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An investigative reporter reveals the underworld of the truffle industry, including planting poisoned meatballs to remove competitor's truffle-hunting dogs, foragers being held at gunpoint and robbed of their harvest, and crime syndicates breaking into science labs to steal research.
20) The falconer
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Two friends in Oman work together at the zoo, but after Tariq's sister has an arranged marriage which results in her being abused, he plans to steal animals and sell them on the black market in order to give her money to escape. When the white, wealthy, Cai figures out what's happening, it strains the friendship as the two young men are forced to face the differences in their lives and situations.