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1) Blue velvet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Beau Lantry risks his life, ship, and crew to help Kate Gilbert save a friend from a drug smuggler, and escape from the island of Costellano.
2) Night road
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dishonorably discharged from the US Coast Guard, Zach Morrow accepts a shady assignment to befriend an old classmate who is reportedly smuggling a mysterious tractor-trailer across the Canadian border.
3) Easy go
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh's lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself. But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cora Saros is trying her best to join the family business of theft and intergalactic smuggling. Unfortunately, she's a total disaster, and after landing herself in prison following an attempted heist gone very wrong, she strikes a bargain with the prison warden: He'll expunge her record if she brings back a long-lost treasure rumored to grant immortality. Assembling a crew from her collection of misfit cellmates, Cora takes off after the fabled prize....
5) Lights out
Author
Series
Outer Banks volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Spring break in the Outer Banks, and the islands are swarming with rich tourists. JJ and John B plan a fishing getaway to the notoriously dangerous Frying Pan Shoals-- nicknamed "Graveyard of the Atlantic" for good reason. Soon after they set sail the friends run into the Savannah, who hitches a ride aboard the HMS Pogue when the weather worsens and her boyfriend leaves her stranded. As a violent storm sets in, the three realize the only place to...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal...
Author
Publisher
Black & White Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Brazil and London 1824. Charged with a mission by the Empress of Brazil, celebrated writer and the toast of Georgian London, Maria Graham sets off for England with the Brazilian civil war at its height. Newly widowed and a woman travelling alone, the stakes are high and when she accepts roguish smuggler Captain James Henderson's offer of passage on his ship, she gets more than she bargains for. Henderson is on a journey of his own, back to his childhood...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Killing Tide by Jean-Luc Bannalec is the fifth novel in the internationally bestselling Commissaire Dupin series. Deep sea fishers, dolphin researchers, smugglers, and an island shrouded in myth in the middle of the rough Atlantic ocean: Commissaire Dupin had sworn he would never again investigate on the ocean, but his fifth case takes him offshore, off the west coast of Brittany on a beautifully sunny day in June. He lands on the unique Île...
9) Autonomous
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic...
10) Stolen past
Author
Series
Doug Fletcher volume 1
Publisher
BWL Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doug Fletcher, a retired Minnesota detective, relocates to Arizona and a quiet life as a part-time National Park Service ranger. His plans change abruptly when a suspicious fall at a national monument plunges him into the world of stolen antiquities, ruthless drug smugglers, and shady antiques dealers. Working with Jamie Ballard of the Navajo Nation Police, Doug finds their investigation complicated by the demands of his visiting family, a new boss,...
11) Scoundrels
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Han Solo, cocky smuggler and captain of the Millennium Falcon, just played a key role in the daring raid that destroyed the Death Star and landed the first serious blow to the Empire in its war against the Rebel Alliance. But after losing the reward his heroics earned him, Han's got nothing to celebrate since he's deep in debt to the ruthless crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Then a mysterious stranger offers Han a fortune in exchange for some less-than-legal...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charles Raynaud has found the perfect cover for his smuggling operation running out of Mexico, because how many customs agents are going to want to inspect a carton of venomous snakes? When Raynaud runs into his old Yale buddy Richard Pierce, a chance to play bodyguard feels like even easier money. Pierce has a large inheritance coming, but a series of thwarted attempts on his buddy's life makes Charles begin to smell a rat. Who's really trying to...
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 26
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1970]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Hardy boys embark on a freighter trip under mysterious circumstances and find themselves involved with a smuggling ring.
14) Winter palace
Author
Series
Priceless collection volume 3
Publisher
Hendrickson
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey Sinclair has earned his stripes in the international antiques market, has come to a new understanding of faith, and has won the heart of lovely Katya. But then a seemingly straightforward assignment--reclaim the winter palace of a Russian nobleman whose family lost everything during the 1917 Russian Revolution--turns into something much more sinister. Thrust into the turbulence of a nation that's no longer the Soviet Union, Jeffrey is immediately...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange...
Author
Series
Rise volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HaperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The first in a YA political fantasy duology about a fierce princess determined to bring lasting peace to her kingdom regardless of the cost to her heart--from C.J. Redwine, the author of the Defiance series and the New York Times bestselling Ravenspire series. Perfect for fans of These Violent Delights, And I Darken, and Ash Princess. Princess Charis Willowthorn is the dutiful sword of Calera. Raised to be ruthless and cunning, her only goal is to...
17) Jamaica Inn
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in Cornwall in 1820, du Maurier's classic gothic tale of romance, intrigue, and murder on the moors comes to vivid life in this enchanting production.
18) Smugglers' gold
Author
Series
Gideon Ryder volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Disgraced ex-Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Ryder has been given a second chance to serve his country as an agent of the newly created United States Secret Service. Assigned to investigate a smuggling ring operating out of Galveston Island on the Gulf Coast of Texas, Ryder must navigate his way through the population of immigrants, sailors, former slaves, and ex-Rebels to infiltrate a gang of outlaws more deadly and dangerous than the Secret Service could...
Author
Series
Doomsday books volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. Still,he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming man in a London molly house, he falls head over heels--until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange,...
20) A crash of fate
Author
Series
Star Wars Galaxy's edge volume 1
Publisher
Disney + Lucas Film Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Izzy and Jules were childhood friends, climbing the spires of Batuu, inventing silly games, and dreaming of adventures they would share one day. Then, Izzy's family left abruptly, without even a chance to say goodbye. Izzy's life became one of constant motion, traveling from one world to the next, until her parents were killed and she became a low-level smuggler to make ends meet. Jules remained on Batuu, eventually becoming a farmer like his father,...
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