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1) Red rabbit
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!
Tom Clancy reveals the details of Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
It’s the early 1980s—and historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine Jack Ryan is now a CIA officer on loan to the British SIS. On his very first day, an extraordinary document crosses his desk. Because of...
Tom Clancy reveals the details of Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
It’s the early 1980s—and historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine Jack Ryan is now a CIA officer on loan to the British SIS. On his very first day, an extraordinary document crosses his desk. Because of...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the president in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series.Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has had a lot of field success despite only just beginning his second year at Spy School, something graduates rarely experience. But hed never have survived without the help from experienced agents and his friends.Now hes been called in...
4) Kentucky!
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Following the Civil War, Toby Holt is sent to the Kentucky hills in pursuit of an assassin plotting against President Grant's life.
Author
Series
Shan Tao Yun mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Chinese minister of tourism has been assassinated on the slope of Everest. Shan, a former investigator from Beijing, must solve the mystery of the assassination to save the accused man, the only person who can help his imprisoned son.
Author
Series
Omar Yussef mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Arriving to visit his son in a heavily Palestinian area of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Omar Yussef discovers the beheaded body of one of the boy's roommates. When his son is arrested as a suspect, Omar Yussef must prove his innocence.
7) Valkyrie
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jack Higgins “doesn’t stint on action” (Publishers Weekly) in this New York Times bestseller featuring black ops specialist Sean Dillon. On a Long Island pier, a trusted operative for the President is wounded by gunfire. In London, an adviser to the Prime Minister approaches his car when it explodes. In New York, British soldier-turned covert operative Sean Dillon is approached by a man with a pistol in his hand... Someone is targeting members...
9) 24: Season 5
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination. The killings coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, leading Jack to suspect a link between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as the terror unfolds, Jack learns the day's events were set in motion by...
10) Renegade
Author
Series
Rebel force volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Deadly assassin X-7 has infiltrated the Rebel Alliance. Trained by ruthless Commander Rezi, X-7 is the best there is: He feels nothing and sees everything. Now, he's gunning for the ultimate prize: Luke Skywalker, the pilot that destroyed the Death Star. The seemingly clueless kid from Tatooine proves more resourceful and difficult to eliminate than X-7 could ever have imagined. Surrounded by friends and allies, and with a connection to the Force...
11) Detective story
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Description
The imprisoned former torturer for a defunct South American dictatorship recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police.
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
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Read Alikes for Dune
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Read Alikes for Dune
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
Description
Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864-65, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.
14) X2: X-men united
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
Author
Series
Tom Patterson westerns volume 2
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to The Gunfighter's Apprentice, former gunfighter Tom Patterson and his wife Betty are drawn into a scheme of assassination and avarice in 1880s California. Patterson seeks to find and warn the proposed victim of a failed murder attempt. He hopes to discover the criminal intent and the malevolent men who are behind it. Following a lead, Patterson's travels to various locations near the Nevada border bring him close to finding answers...
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
17) Deadlock
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Otto and Raven are desperate to rescue their friends from the clutches of Anastasia Furan, head of the evil Disciples organization. First they must track down the location of the Glasshouse, the prison where Furan trains children to become ruthless assassins. But Otto is also being hunted. In the three months since his “expulsion” from H.I.V.E., The Artemis Section—an elite intelligence division that goes after the toughest targets...
Publisher
DistriMax
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
American visa: A man travels to La Paz, Bolivia to seek a tourist visa to the U.S. with hopes visit his son, and perhaps stay permanently. But when he meets a beautiful woman and begins to fall in love, he must make the hard decision of whether to go or to stay.
Rosario Tijeras: Antonio and Emilio are two upperclass friends who one day meet the beautiful and sensual narcotics assassin of Medillín, Rosario Tijeras "The Scissors". Moved by hatred...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--martyred, heroic--is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel--a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five--about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans...
20) Richard III
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his fantasy of total control of self and domination of others. Not yet king at the start of the play, Richard presents himself as an enterprising villain as he successfully plans to dispose of his brother Clarence. Richard achieves similar success in conquering the woman he chooses to marry. He carves a way to the throne through assassination...
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