Scott Brick
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Series
Fargo adventures volume 9
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English
Description
"Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that--it vanished....
42) Arctic drift
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming ... a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia ... a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war ... NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find...
43) Crescent dawn
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement to restore...
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Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade.
More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad.
45) The inner circle
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Series
Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Benjamin January, a librarian at the National Archives, receives a surprise visit from Clementine Kaye, an old childhood flame who is searching for Benjy's father. Trying to impress his old crush, Benjy gives Clementine a tour of a secret vault where classified documents are reviewed. There, the duo discovers a hidden dictionary that once belonged to George Washington and is plunged into a deadly mystery involving the most important secret in U.S....
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Series
Language
English
Description
NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the worlds most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankinds last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Timesbestselling grand master of adventure.When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology,...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
The Museum of Natural History receives back a pilfered gem collection, which has been is ground to dust. To quell the PR nightmare the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef; that's when the killings and talk of ancient curse start. FBI agent Pendergast is pitted against his brilliant, psychotic brother Diogenes.
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Series
Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 3
Language
English
Description
Brad Meltzer returns with the next novel in the bestselling Culper Ring series. Beecher White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: there is a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message ... one that may have dire repercussions for the president. Even worse, the message turns Beecher's personal life upside down, pointing him toward the dark truth about his father's death.
49) Hold tight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tia and Mike Baye never imagined theyd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hillthe latest in a string of issues at schoolthey cant help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adams computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 11
Language
English
Description
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first...
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Series
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English
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"Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O'Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can't touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace. Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino in Macau. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global...
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers; a game that could end in all-out war.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
When the farm community of Medicine Creek, Kansas, is terrorized by a series of disturbing murders, FBI agent Pendergast discovers a link between a moonshine operation and an unsolved killing from more than 150 years earlier.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"He's a charming con man and she's a dedicated FBI agent, and they're about to drive each other crazy. again! The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox--bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire. The FBI doesn't know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has...
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Series
Oregon files volume 13
Language
English
Description
Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men--and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind. Soon, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives aboard the...
56) Miracle cure
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Language
English
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They're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. In a Manhattan clinic, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well -- and, one by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Internationally renowned thief and con artist Nicolas Fox is famous for running elaborate and daring scams. His greatest con of all: convincing the FBI to team him up with the only person who has ever caught him, Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Together they'll go undercover to swindle and catch the world's most wanted and untouchable criminals. Their newest target is Carter Grove, a former White House chief of staff and the ruthless leader of a private...
58) Pirate
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Series
Fargo adventures volume 8
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An 800 year old treasure, an ancient cypher wheel, a brutal murder, and a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his. Husband and wife treasure hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world, and at its end will be either one of the most glorious...
59) The innocent
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
The horror of one night is forever etched in Matt Hunter's memory; the night he innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife Olivia pregnant and the two of them closing on a house in his home town, things are looking up. Until the day Matt gets a shocking, inexplicable video call from Olivia's phone....
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English
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"Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team, the Grizzlies, with a rabid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical....