Anthony Horowitz
1) Necropolis
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The stakes get higher in #1 NYT bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's latest masterpiece.As the fourth novel in the spellbinding Gatekeepers series begins, the world is under the greatest threat it's ever known. The evil corporation Nightrise has amassed an immense amount of power . . . and the devastating force of the Old Ones is about to be unleashed around the globe. To stop this from happening, Matt and three of the Gatekeepers head to Hong Kong—not...
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When Alex Rider thwarted the plans of the criminal organization Nightshade, he knew he'd made a new, blatantly evil enemy. But he hadn't expected to get sucked back into the spy game so quickly--that is, until the Nightshade masterminds kidnap his best friend, forcing Alex to do their bidding if he ever wants to see his pal alive again. As Alex dives deep into this latest mission, his friend isn't the only one whose life is on the line. Nightshade...
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
ALEX RIDER'S LIFE CHANGED WITH ONE BULLET AND THE PULL OF A TRIGGER. It was the cold-blooded contract killer Yassen Gregorovich who changed Alex Rider's life. Aged just fourteen, Alex was thrust into the chaos of international espionage—the world's only teenage spy. The two have been mortal enemies ever since. Yet, as a boy, Yassen was mentored by someone very much like Alex. What turned him into such a ruthless assassin? In some ways, Alex and...
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Magpie murders volume 1
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English
Description
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula...
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English
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Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day. It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder - James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den - but whose...
7) Stormbreaker
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Series
Alex Rider volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
8) Point blank
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Series
Alex Rider volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!
Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author!
When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something...
Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author!
When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something...
9) Scorpia
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Series
Alex Rider volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
10) Snakehead
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
11) Crocodile tears
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Series
Alex Rider volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
12) Ark angel
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Series
Alex Rider volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
13) Scorpia rising
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Alex Rider volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
14) Skeleton Key
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Alex Rider volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
15) Raven's gate
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Gatekeepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
16) Evil star
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Series
Gatekeepers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
17) Nightrise
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Series
Gatekeepers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
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English
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Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. Alan Conway, the late author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew Frank Parris and once visited...
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Hawthorne and Horowitz volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
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Series
Hawthorne and Horowitz volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
You shouldn't be here. It's too late. These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth 3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man's...