Paul Michael
21) Crown jewel
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Simon Riske novels volume 2
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"Stolen sports cars, brilliant casino heists, and the brazen kidnapping of a prince: only the shadowy spy-for-hire Simon Riske can stop the mastermind behind it all"--
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"In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power - France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under constant threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany." "In this dark time, Stephen Metcalfe is living the high life in occupied Paris. The younger son of a prominent American family, Metcalfe is a handsome young man who is a notable guest at all the best parties, has been romantically...
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[2014]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.
25) Hollywood tough
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Shane Scully novels volume 3
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Overhearing a Hollywood producer make suspicious remarks about the strange deaths of his ex-wives, LAPD officer Shane Scully fears for his wife's best friend, who is engaged to the producer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 24
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"On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The weird turns that followed in this already sensational tale are truly astonishing--the Hearst family trying to secure Patty's release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free; bank security cameras captured 'Tania'...
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"Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the British glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the Canadian brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as...
29) Ticktock
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After stumbling upon a mysterious rag doll on his doorstep, Tommy Phan finds himself hunted in his own home, as the doll begins to grow into a monster that is determined to kill him.
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One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most dangerous conspiracy in America- Invasion of Privacy is the riveting, new standalone suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich. On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout....
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Babylon rising volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Field archaeologist Michael Murphy attempts the recovery of what may prove conclusively to be Noah's Ark, but dark forces are against him.
33) City on fire
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 57
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The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have...
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Robert "Bobby" Astor is a successful New York hedge-fund manager on the cusp of making his biggest, most daring killing ever. But everything changes when his father, the chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a bizarre, mystifying accident on the South Lawn of the White House while en route to delivering a terrifying secret to the president of the United States. In the wake of the incident, Astor sees the business he built start...
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Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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"With this revised edition of A Place on Earth, we add a major installment to our uniform series of books about "The Port William Membership." The central character is not a person but a place: Port William, Kentucky, the farm lands and forests that surround it and the Kentucky River that runs nearby. This is a region that Wendell Berry knows intimately, with both heart and mind, a region whose faults and virtues he has spent a lifetime learning."--BOOK...
37) Homecoming
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A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after all these years.
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Babylon rising volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. Murphy is a field archeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times.
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[2016]
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"Like Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Paul English grew up poor, in working-class Boston, but as Tracy Kidder writes, he had "a mind for the age that was coming." Brilliant, reckless, endlessly energetic, Paul English, after Kayak sold for $2 billion, asked himself: What comes next? Start another company? Use his new wealth to make a difference in the world? With a riveting, page-turning narrative and unmatched storytelling skill, Kidder...
40) Sons of Fortune
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In the late 1940s, twin boys are separated at birth, Nat going home with his middle-class parents, and Fletcher to be raised by a wealthy couple, but their lives come together when they both run for governor of Connecticut.