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1) Split second
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making --and are a long way from over
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Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems - if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Witch hunter Old Tom and his mute ward, Rabbit, are out to collect the bounty on a witch and are joined by two vagabond cowboys and a schoolteacher with nothing left to lose as they barrel through the Wild West in a stolen red stagecoach, encountering monsters more wicked than the woman they’re tracking."
4) Extreme prey
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After the events in Gathering Prey (2015), Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation -- no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of is -- until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor and anyone who gets in the way.
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Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
When a presidential candidate wins the election through sympathy votes two weeks after a terrorist attack kills his wife, a CIA operative investigates dangerous allegations about the attack's hidden agenda, a case that threatens the government's stability
6) Locked on
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 33
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English
Description
Coming out of retirement to run for president, Jack Ryan finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes attack from his opponent as his close comrade, John Clark, is the subject of treacherous charges, at the same time Jack Ryan, Jr. and other members of Campus struggle to stop terrorists.
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English
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"The Cold War is back-but for some it never ended. Sarah Ridgeway is living the life she's always envisioned. She has a devoted husband, a loving daughter, and a comfortable home. The path to reach it, however, has not always been smooth. For twelve years her husband, Bryce, served in the Army, deployed to some of the world's worst trouble spots. After his service ended with a combat injury, the future had seemed precarious, but with Sarah's support...
9) Lost Lake
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English
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Writing sensational stories based on her own paranoid fears, a tabloid reporter pursues a theory about a government conspiracy to cover up a secret military unit and stumbles across a clandestine operation
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English
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When Cady Davenport's husband-to-be hits the road for the upcoming presidential election, she realizes she's on her own, and that her dream life might not be all she'd imagined. That is, until she finds herself thrust into the middle of the most influential inner circle in Washington, D.C.-- the campaign widows.
12) Ties that bind
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English
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When a presidential candidate is brutally murdered, an attorney finds herself representing the chief suspect, who claims to have information linking the victim to a drug ring of high-ranking judges and public officials
13) Badlands
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English
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When Penny, the daughter of a presidential candidate, and her young son are kidnapped and taken deep into the California badlands, bodyguard Owen Jackson embarks on a dangerous rescue mission and prepares to go up against a ruthless gang leader--his own brother.
15) Double crossfire
Author
Series
Jake Mahegan thrillers volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"How do you overturn an election?" It's a question that has obsessed presidential candidate Jamie Carter ever since her loss to businessman and political neophyte President Jack Smart. In spite of the election results, she's determined to take what she sees as her rightful place in the White House--through any means possible. First, she establishes residency in North Carolina. Then, when the state's Pro Tem of the US Senate is found dead, she is appointed...
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English
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"Carla Merino is hiding out in Lost Bay, Alaska, after a one-night stand with the wrong man...She'd taken a memento from the evening...a photograph from the man's wallet, of a younger version of himself and some very important military men. But she quickly realizes who the men are--including Gordon McKint, giant in the military contracting industry, who just happens to be running for president...When she finds out she's been tracked to Lost Bay, she...
17) The candidate
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Newsmakers novels volume 2
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English
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"How far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous billionaire who--along with her best friend and confidant Lily Lau--has engineered her husband's meteoric rise. The White House is within their reach. But the...
18) Tempting
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English
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When a woman discovers that her biological father is a Washington senator running for president, his campaign manager, wary of her true motives, will do anything to stop her from causing a scandal that could jeopardize everything.
19) The Race
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English
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Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.
Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment
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Capital crimes series volume 24
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As three detectives investigate the killing of a Washington call girl, they discover that the victim may have used a digital video camera to tape her clients and that her death may be tied to a hotly contested political campaign and to the kidnapping of the daughter of an advisor to the leading candidate
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