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641) Wayward winds
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
This is book 2 in The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall. England stands on the brink of World War I, and the lives of the Rutherfords of Devonshire are in sudden peril. Dismayed by her parents' newfound religious beliefs, 20-year-old Amanda Rutherford has left the family mansion on the shires of Devon and joined the suffragette movement in London. While in the bustling metropolis, she becomes romantically involved with Ramsay Halifax, a charming young...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After an African American boy dies at a house party from an apparent drug overdose, Lilach, when racial tensions in the community are ignited and her son Adam is implicated in the crime, begins to question everything she knows about him, wondering if her quiet, reclusive boy could be a killer.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
The story of a secret service agent who made the fateful decision to remove the security bubble from Kennedy's parade car follows his struggles with suicidal feelings of guilt until a young reporter endeavors to determine the day's outcome if the bubbletop had been in place.
644) Where we come from
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving the death of his mother, his father, Victor, is...
645) 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
Jack Ryan, Jr volume 12
Jack Ryan Jr volume 12
Jack Ryan Universe volume 33
Jack Ryan Jr volume 15
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Jack Ryan Jr volume 12
Jack Ryan Universe volume 33
Jack Ryan Jr volume 15
More Series...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a 'dead-man's switch,' activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. But his benign trip takes a deadly turn when a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea's capital. A mysterious voice...
647) The collectors
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
A murder at the Library of Congress marks the beginning of the Camel Club's focus on rogue CIA agent Rober Seagraves, who is selling classified political information to the highet bidder. Caleb Shaw, an ex-CIA assassin, and the other members of the Club must stop Seagraves before his deals demolish the foundation of national security for good.
648) Dark winter
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
By the time anyone realizes what's happening, it is too late. A dark network of hackers has infiltrated the computers of the U.S. military, unleashing chaos across the globe. U.S. missiles strike the wrong targets. Defense systems fail. Power grids shut down. Within hours, America's enemies move in. Russian tanks plow through northern Europe. Iranian troops invade Iraq. North Korean destroys Seoul and fires missiles at Japan. Phase 1 of ComWar is...
649) 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,...
651) The hopefuls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Better Half tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a musician's new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists' ire, and it's up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, "Song for Catalonia," when the Spanish...
653) Tate
Author
Series
Montana Marshalls volume 2
Publisher
SDG Publishing, a division of Susan May Warren Fiction
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"What will it cost this bodyguard to save the woman he loves? Bodyguard Tate Marshall has always been the family troublemaker. Maybe it's his impulsive propensity to get into the middle of problems that don't belong to him. But once in, he can't stop himself from trying to solve them and that includes his recent dilemma. He's in love with the woman he's supposed to protect, the beautiful Gloria, 'Glo' Jackson, daughter of US Senator and presidential...
654) Liberty's last stand
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle.Afterwards, America will never be the same.Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law when a public act of violence throws the country into chaos...
655) Beloved enemy
Author
Series
Jack McClure novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the stunning follow-up to Father Night, Jack McClure faces a choice: help the woman he loves or destroy her as the enemy she is. Shortly after McClure leaves a meeting with Dennis Paull, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Paull is found--shot dead. The president is furious but equally frightened of a scandal, since Jack McClure is one of their own--an operative and Paull's friend. Who will protect the country if even McClure cannot be trusted?...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Washington, D.C. lawyer and a frequent major media commentator on the Supreme Court, Anthony Franze delivers a high-stakes story of family, power, loss and revenge set within the insular world of the highest court of our country. Among Washington D.C. power players, everyone has secrets they desperately want to keep hidden, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer. Sean transformed his misspent youth into a model adulthood, and now has one...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A collection of Martin Limón's award-winning short stories featuring the heroes of his critically acclaimed crime novels includes pieces that have been published throughout the past 20 years in such magazines as Alfred Hitchcock.
658) Code of honor
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam. President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can't move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who is...
659) Cantoras
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find each other as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet,...
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Language
English
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Description
"The final days of the American presence in Afghanistan bring Adam Hayes a summons he can't ignore in the latest electrifying thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum"--
Adam Hayes has stepped away from the field for the last time. He's promised his wife that he won't put his life on the line any more, and there's nothing that will make him break a promise to his wife.
Well...almost nothing. With America withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Taliban...