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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Following the stranger home for a one-night stand could cost inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett her life when her occasional boyfriend fails to arrive at a bar and a stranger named Colin hides her away in a remote Minnesota cabin, disregarding his employers' demands to kidnap Mia as part of an extortion scheme. Mia's mother and detective Gabe Hoffman will do whatever it takes to bring Mia home safe...but they're running out of time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
IN EUROPE'S MOST DANGEROUS CITYChris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world's most powerful investigation firm. He keeps his methods secret as he tackles Private's most high-profile cases-and when Chris suddenly disappears, he becomes Private Berlin's most dangerous investigation yet.AN INVESTIGATOR IS SEARCHINGMattie Engel is another top agent at Private Berlin, gorgeous and ruthlessly determined-and...
4) Dark places
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
As a child, Libby Day witnessed the murder of her mother and two older sisters by her brother, Ben. Her testimony sealed his fate and sent him to prison. Now in her 30s, Libby leads a solitary life. However, with her funds running out, she needs to get a job. Approached by a group who call themselves the Kill Club, she's offered payment for interviewing her brother, whom they believe is innocent of the murders. Before long, even she doubts what she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
6) Tailspin
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rye Mallett is a 'freight dog', a pilot who'll fly anywhere in the world, at any time, at a moment's notice, through the worst weather. As a fighter pilot in Afghanistan, he escaped death once. Figuring that it's only a matter of time before it catches up with him, he tempts it by taking risks. But one night he takes to the air, when no other pilot would, to deliver a black padlocked box. What awaits him at his destination is a near crash . . . and...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille...
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille...
9) Six years
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Eve Lattimore's family is like every other on their suburban street, with one exception. Her son Tyler has a rare medical condition that makes him fatally sensitive to light, which means heavy curtains and deadlocked doors protect him during the day and he can never leave the house except at night. For Eve, only constant vigilance stands between an increasingly restless teenage son and the dangers of the outside world. Until the night the unthinkable...
11) Gone
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • The inspiration for season two of the hit streaming series Reacher!
“Electrifying . . . this series [is] utterly addictive.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his...
“Electrifying . . . this series [is] utterly addictive.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his...
13) Ice
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
On holiday leave from the service, Gabriel McQueen is sent into a brewing ice storm to make sure that his father’s distant neighbor, Lolly Helton, who has fallen out of contact, is safe and sound. It’s a trip that Gabriel would rather not make, given the bitter winter weather—and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly. Arriving at Lolly’s home, Gabriel spots strangers through the windows—one...
14) Make Me
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When he teams up with Michelle Chang, Jack Reacher finds himself involved in a private investigation that has turned lethal.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator.
16) Private Vegas
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Evan Waller is a monster and his latest business venture could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe unless he can be stopped by two mysterious operatives who are unaware of each other's mission.
18) The lost symbol
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this new thriller follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
19) Shadow tyrants
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint pf Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding a body of knowledge and secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men. Now two rival factions of the descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but one of them is willing to use horrifying means to accomplish its goals. It is up to Cabrillo and his team of...
20) The escape
Author
Series
[John Puller] volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." -- from author's web site.
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