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(0)Buck Schirner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds. Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely...
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English
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When the Atomic Energy Commission puts the Vermilion One Mine on its shortlist of potential sites for storage of nuclear waste, a barrage of protest erupts in Tamarack County, Minnesota, and Cork O'Connor is hired to head security. His first day on the job, Cork stumbles across a secret room with the remains of six murder victims inside.
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English
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Receiving evidence that a plane crash that killed his wife may not have been an actual event and that she may still be alive, Cork O'Connor travels to Wyoming to investigate allegations about the pilot's identity and is confronted by a series of deadly interferences.
5) The poet
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Series
Jack McEvoy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write -- and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large, His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. His latest victim: McEvoy's own brother. And his last may be McEvoy himself.
6) Dead run
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English
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“…A ruthlessly efficient straight-arrow tale that’s a welcome change of pace for the Monkeewrench gang.” —Kirkus Reviews
Computer game company founders Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky—along with Wisconsin deputy Sharon Mueller—are en route to Green Bay, following reports of a serial killer, when their car breaks down deep in the northern woods.
A short walk through the forest leads them...
Computer game company founders Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky—along with Wisconsin deputy Sharon Mueller—are en route to Green Bay, following reports of a serial killer, when their car breaks down deep in the northern woods.
A short walk through the forest leads them...
7) Off the grid
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English
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On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is discovered in a vacant lot, her throat slashed. Later that day, two young men are found in their home a few blocks away, killed execution-style. The next morning, the dead bodies of three more men turn up, savagely murdered in...
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Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 9
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Bob Lee Swagger is in love--with a woman who died 70 years ago. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was a great Russian sniper in World War II until she disappeared on a mission and was virtually erased from history. When Kathy Reilly of the Washington Post encounters a brief mention of Petrova in an old Russian propaganda magazine, she begins building a story around the legendary female sniper, who was once dubbed Die Weisse Hexe--The White Witch--and lauded...
10) The third bullet
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 8
Language
English
Description
Legendary former Marine Bob Lee Swager is interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy. His investigation includes questions that few have asked before, and as he progresses, a CIA veteran emerges who has secrets and the means and will to keep them. As each man hunts the other, the book builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Swagger has always known: it's...
11) I, sniper
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 6
Language
English
Description
Bob Lee Swagger fights to clear the name of a fellow soldier-in-arms and faces off against one of his most ruthless adversaries yet, a sniper whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rivals his own.
12) Fear the worst
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When his seventeen-year-old daughter fails to return from her summer job at the local hotel, an alarmed Tim discovers that the teen never worked there and has gone missing, a situation that turns more terrifying when his initial search results in a deaththreat.
13) Night of thunder
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Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 5
Language
English
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Bob Lee Swagger's daughter Nikki had been investigating a crazy and intense Southern Fried scandal, but when she is forced off the road and into a wreck that leaves her in a coma, Swagger must pick up where Nikki left off.
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Series
Stone Creek volume 1
Language
English
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There's trouble in Haven, Arizona, and Ranger Sam O'Ballivan is determined to sort it all out. Badge and gun hidden, he arrives posing as the new schoolteacher, and his first order of business is to bring the rough ranchers' children under control. To that end, he calls on Maddie Chancelor, the local postmistress, whose younger brother is in firm need of discipline.
15) Acts of love
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2010], p2008
Language
English
Description
An odyssey of the heart begins the moment theater director Lucas Cameron discovers a box of letters written to his now-deceased grandmother by her protege, Jessica Fontaine. Jessica disappeared from the stage years before, following a tragic accident. Through her letters, Lucas comes to fall in love with this passionate, talented woman, and seeks her out , only to find a bitter recluse whose hopes and desires have been crushed by fate.
