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62) Salem's cipher
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English
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Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since her quantum computing breakthrough. She's also an agoraphobe shackled to a narrow routine since her father's suicide. When her intelligence work unexpectedly exposes a sinister plot to assassinate the country's first viable female presidential candidate, Salem finds herself both target and detective in a modern day witch hunt. Drawn into a labyrinth of messages...
63) Cryptonomicon
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English
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An American computer hacker operating in Southeast Asia attempts to break a World War II cypher to find the location of a missing shipment of gold. The gold was stolen by the Japanese during the war. By the author of The Diamond Age.
More than fifty years after Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe are assigned to Detachment 2702, a secret cryptographic mission, their grandchildren--Randy and Amy--join forces to create a "data...
64) Four dominions
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles:Publisher Annotation: The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand years, but now it is upon us. Emma and Bravo Shaw have rescued the Testament of Lucifer from nefarious hands, but despite their efforts Lucifer's Fallen have already woken, including the four thrones of legend, and their corruption reaches to the highest ranks. Even the Shaws are not immune, as Leviathan is coming, and no one is safe. Following...
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of androgynous tomboy Anna, who is disguised as a male and sold to a band of shepherds before entering a spiritual society of desert women who convey mystical teachings and help her discover her latent powers.
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English
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Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk tracks a powerful Department of Justice operative at the center of a high-tech conspiracy that killed her husband and now threatens those closest to her as part of an agenda to seize power.
Battling an epidemic of murder-suicides has made rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk a wanted fugitive, relentlessly hunted by the government and by the secret cabal behind the plot. Propelled by her insistence on justice, she must confront the...
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Gilded wolves volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Returning to the dark and glamorous world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with another riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever. Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost - one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to...
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Series
Invisible library volume 1
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English
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Portal Fantasies
Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
Portal Fantasies
Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
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"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative...
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2022.
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English
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"A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family-and a new love-changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows...
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Series
Convergence saga volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift...
71) Very bad people
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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English
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Six years ago, Calliope Bolan’s mother drove the family van into a lake with her three daughters inside. The girls escaped, but their mother drowned, and the truth behind the “accident” remains a mystery Calliope is determined to solve. Now sixteen, she transfers to Tipton Academy, the same elite boarding school her mother once attended. Tipton promises a peek into the past and a host of new opportunities—including a coveted invitation to...
72) Eyes wide shut
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.
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Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
Now officially working for the Secret Intelligence Service, Kim Tavistock is back to solve another mysterythis time a serial killer with deep Nazi tiesin the sequel to At the Table of Wolves. Summer, 1936. In England, an assassin is loose. Someone is killing young people who possess Talents. As terror overtakes Britain, Kim Tavistock, now officially employed by Englands Secret Intelligence Service, is sent on her first mission: to the remote Sulcliffe...
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The final Testament novel is here! For millennia, Lucifer--the Sum of All Shadows--has been biding his time, rebuilding his influence. At long last, he is ready to enact his ultimate revenge: to reverse the bitter humiliation of the Fall by leading the annihilation of heaven. To combat the ultimate destroyer, Bravo and Emma Shaw have recovered the lost Testament, raced around the world, and battled enemies both human and other. Now, caught between...
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Series
Ashtown burials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered in skeleton tattoos, Cyrus, Antigone, and their brother Daniel are introduced to an ancient secret society, and discover that they have an important role in keeping it alive.
76) Transition
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Sharing nothing in common except links to an organization committed to protecting the world from itself, an assembly of dubious characters including a torturer, a reluctant assassin, and an amnesiac patient confront challenges beyond their imagining.
77) Sanctus
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Series
Sancti trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
When a man performs a dangerous, symbolic act on the mountain known as the Citadel, a Vatican-like city-state that towers above the city of Ruin in contemporary Turkey, a deadly chain of events is set in motion that could destroy the certainties of modern life.
78) The testament
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Series
Bravo Shaw novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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79) Race to Krakatoa
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Series
Inkwell chronicles volume 2
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Siblings Everett and Bea set out with their fellow Inklings to uncover the truth behind a new, and mysterious, type of magical ink that is appearing around the world.
Mystery and danger abound in book two of The Inkwell Chronicles, a fast-paced middle-grade fantasy series about magic ink, a secret society, and a boy who learns to make his mark. In book two of The Inkwell Chronicles, Everett and his little sister Bea find themselves drawn even more...
80) The untold story
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Series
Invisible library volume 8
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Time-traveling Librarian spy Irene has faced unimaginable challenges across a multitude of worlds, but to keep her friends safe, Irene will have to do what has never been attempted and cut through the tangled web of power at the heart of the Library. Irene is trying to learn the truth about Alberich-and the possibility that he is her father. When the Library orders her to kill him, and then Alberich himself offers to sign a truce, she has to discover...
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