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1) Split second
Author
Series
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Eight years after leaving the Secret Service following the assassination of the presidential candidate he had been protecting, Sean King reluctantly joins with agent Michelle Maxwell to uncover the truth when another candidate is abducted.
2) Becoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
Formats
Description
An assassination attempt on the head of Russian intelligence leads United States President Jack Ryan into the middle of a Chinese plot that could change the world as we know it.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 78
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz, with his sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, are the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. Then photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids. The plan for damage control: stage a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex soon discovers that beneath Henry's Prince Charming...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and the deceit of Camelot. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
10) Decision points
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former president offers a candid journey through the defining decisions of his life and presidency, discussing the 2000 election, 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina, as well as his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.
14) Marine One
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After the president is killed when his official helicopter crashes on its way to a mysterious meeting in Camp David, Marine Corps reserve pilot and trial attorney Mike Nolan begins an investigation to discover the cause of the crash.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
An analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
A historical portrait set against the backdrop of the antebellum South and the Civil War explores the remarkable friendship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker and confidante, Elizabeth Keckly, a former slave.
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