Boyd Gaines
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Series
John Corey novels volume 2
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English
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"The Lion" will be landing. And at New York's JFK Airport, an elite American task force waits as the notorious Libyan terrorist prepares to defect to the West. Then, aboard Flight 175, something goes eerily, horribly wrong -- a mere prelude to the terror that is to come. Ex-NYPD cop, now Federal Task Force agent John Corey -- together with his formidable and beautiful new partner, Kate Mayfield -- will follow a trail of smoke and blood across the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the the find, the White House calls upon intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
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English
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us -- an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time...
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Series
Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 1
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club: “an ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieri’s Inferno to vivid, even unsettling life.”—The Boston Globe
“With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters . . . what’s not to love?”—Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Origin
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“With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters . . . what’s not to love?”—Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Origin
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English
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In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon. The Secret Man chronicles...
6) Obama's wars
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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Tony Lord leaves town under a cloud of suspicion after his girlfriend is found raped and murdered, but he returns twenty-seven years later to act as lawyer for his old friend Sam Robb who has been accused of killing a female student and finds himself enmeshed in conflicts from the past.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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The greatest archaeological discovery in history could mean the end of mankind in this blockbuster new thriller.
When beautiful archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend, to say that he has new information about her father, now missing for three years, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig to fly to Los Angeles to meet with him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah's Ark-the artifact her father had long been...
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 4
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English
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A famed criminologist, paralyzed from the neck down, Rhyme compensates for his physical disability with his brains -- and the arms and legs of his brilliant and beautiful protégé, Amelia Sachs. The awe-inspiring duo returns in The Stone Monkey. Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln and Amelia track down a cargo ship headed for New York city carrying two dozen illegal chinese...
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer...
12) McNally's risk
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Series
Archy McNally mysteries volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Embroiled in a murder conspiracy, man-about-Palm-Beach and sometime-sleuth Archy McNally walks into a viper's nest of lust and larceny. Checking out the background of a wealthy client's prospective daughter-in-law should be easy money for Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally-until people around gorgeous socialite Theodosia Johnson start being killed off at an alarming rate. The first to die is Theodosia's portrait painter, who gets his...
13) Plan of attack
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Series
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush.
14) State of denial
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Examines the present state of national security decision-making, discussing how Bush's team at the White House, the Pentagon, CIA, and State Department have attempted to transform warfare; overcome security, intelligence and policy failures; and change the strategy of Iraq's occupation.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust and determination within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. With unparalleled...
16) McNally's Chance
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Series
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
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Lawrence Sanders's beloved sleuth Archy McNally returns in a novel by Vincent Lardo Truth is stranger than fiction in Archy McNally's latest case, proving there's no bond stronger than blood-except the bonds of a deadly secret Bestselling author Sabrina Wright wants dapper detective Archy McNally to find her husband, who vanished while looking for her MIA daughter-it may seem like a simple case, but McNally knows it's never that easy. Thirty-year-old...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt."--Note to readers.
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English
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Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls on Valentine's weekend, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their saving account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. Upon his return to earth, Armstrong was honored and celebrated for his monumental achievement. He was also -- as James R. Hansen reveals in this fascinating and important...
20) Blood and bone
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Lashner keeps the reader spellbound."-Harlan Coben New York Times bestselling author William Lashner takes a brief hiatus from his popular series character, lawyer Victor Carl (Hostile Witness, Fatal Flaw, A Killer's Kiss et al), and electrifies with Blood and Bone-a relentlessly exciting standalone thriller. A gripping story of a hard-luck slacker pulled into a deadly conspiracy surrounding the late father he barely knew, it enthralls and surprises...