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Jack Ryan volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
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English
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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.
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Jack Ryan volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 78
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English
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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.
4) Vortex
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English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling Catherine Coulter returns with a brilliant new novel in her FBI thriller series, in which agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present"--
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English
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Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador (alias Salvo) has long looked for someone to guide his life. Enter Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence. Bruno's African upbringing and fluency in numerous African languages have made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats--and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room," Salvo translates intercepted phone...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a near-future world where the United States has emerged from painful wars and a devastating recession, the president sends troops to Uganda, where aid workers have been massacred by terrorists, in spite of warnings from the Chinese government to keep out.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Roland Nair returns to Freetown to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko to meet Adriko's fiancee, Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland. Nair gets mired in betrayal in a landscape of violence as he travels with them, gets smuggled into a war zone, kidnapped by the Congo Army, and terrorized by a self-proclaimed god ruling over a dying village. Their journey leads the three to meet themselves not...
9) Never
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English
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Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
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Publisher
Brick Tower Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The World We Wish continues the love-hate dichotomy among Hui Jen-Sho, China's architect of Artificial Intelligence, who sees the metaverse as a new world to conquer; Henry, the American wunderkind who betrayed his birthland; and the woman they both covet, the ravishing Ma-lin Cho. Just as in today's China, where the only truth comes from the Communist Party - Socialism with Chinese characteristics -- in the metaverse, nothing is what it seems....
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A billionaire has an idea for reversing global warming, but will it work? And what will the consequences for the planet be? A disparate group of characters from around the globe fight to solve the problem of global warming, but some of their ideas may be worse than climate change itself.
12) Heroes proved
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the year 2032, America is supposedly safe from terror, Iranian nuclear weaponry is no longer a threat, and the United Nations' treaties and technologies are keeping the peace. Then a suicide bomber targets Houston, Texas and a famous physicist is kidnapped. The ensuing search by a decorated U.S. Marine war hero and veteran of special ops, not only places the physicist's family in grave danger, but exposes an even more ominous threat to the country,...
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