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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A retelling of the legend of Achilles follows Patroclus and Achilles, the golden son of King Peleus, as they lay siege to Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped--a cause that tests their friendship and forces them to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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Alex Cross novels volume 32
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate...
3) Enough
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington"--
4) Cross down
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 31
Language
English
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"For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...
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Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"The double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the Secretary of the Treasury is only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read"--Publisher....
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"Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University,...
7) Triple cross
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 30
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families--and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull,...
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Camel Club novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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As a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists gathers to observe the actions of the Washington power elite, a federal agent is murdered and one of the group steals a piece of evidence from the scene that implicates members of a private men's club
10) Sacred sins
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Series
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English
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A Washington, D.C. police sergeant and a psychiatrist search for a killer who strangles women with the white silk scarf of a priest, and then leaves notes forgiving them
11) Hell's corner
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"The mysterious attackers in a seeming terrorist plot in Washington, D.C., might have another target in their sights, and if the Camel Club is unable to stop them, the results would be nothing less than catastrophic"--Provided by publisher
12) The prayer box
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When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Iola's youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper.
13) Brazen virtue
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English
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Mystery writer Grace McCabe's sister moonlighted as a call girl with Fantasy, Inc., a popular Washington D.C. phone sex "hotline," until she was murdered by a sadistic client. While Grace tries to bait the killer with her similar voice, police officer Ed Jackson struggles to protect Grace and control his growing love for her.
14) Simple genius
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English
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After checking into a psychiatric institution, a former Secret Service agent is worriedly monitored by her partner, who distracts himself with a murder investigation at a genius enclave where a sophisticated microprocessor is being developed
15) Every breath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter...
16) True blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Fresh out of prison, a disgraced ex-cop, along with the help of her police chief sister, aids a lawyer trying to track down the killer of one of his law partners, all while a U.S. attorney looks for any reason to put the ex-cop back behind bars
17) The return
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, NC. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved bee hives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local...
18) Cross
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Years after his wife is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner who wants his help on a case that reveals a connection to his wife's death
19) Deadly cross
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 28
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A scandalous double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files on Detective Alex Cross. Until Kay Willingham's shocking murder inside a luxury limousine, the Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the sitting vice-president led a public life. Yet few, including her onetime psychologist, had any inkling of Kay's troubled past in the Deep South. Murdered alongside her is Randall Christopher, a respected educator...
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