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1) The dry
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"''One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read ... Every word is near perfect.' -- David Baldacci. A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 24
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English
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When U.S. intelligence reports there's something going on in Russia, President Jack Ryan and his youngest daughter, Katie, determine the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, and the race is on to find its location and decide if it poses a threat to the continental U.S..
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When documentary filmmaker Lyra Prescott inadvertently leaves her camera recording in the hills overlooking Los Angeles, she discovers she caught a shocking crime on film. She quickly becomes convinced someone is out to kill her. Worried for Lyra's safety, her roommate asks her FBI agent brother to help. The real fireworks begin when he sends a fellow agent to check on the women. (Reprint) 384pp ISBN 10-Digit: 0345500784; ISBN 13-Digit 9780345500786....
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Carolyn Jourdan left her beloved Tennessee hometown for a career in Washington, D.C. For twenty years she worked with the country's most powerful people. A successful attorney, she was smart and ambitious, and she believed her work made a difference. So when her father asked her to come home and be the receptionist at his tiny rural doctor's office while her mother recovered from a heart attack, Carolyn reluctantly agreed, thinking she could handle...
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English
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A group of eco-terrorists threaten to start an earthquake and destroy San Francisco unless the government abandons plans to create a dam. They are ignored until the earth trembles and FBI agent Judy Maddox discovers that the technology for a man-made earthquake is available. At which point a race against time gets underway.
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Cadence Jones mysteries volume 2
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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In this book, the next installment in the author's trilogy, Cadence Jones, an unconventional FBI agent, finds love in the most unexpected places. It is Christmas season, a holiday Cadence adores. Her relationship with Patrick has been progressing nicely, and they are beginning to wonder if it might be time to bring their relationship to the next level, unprecedented in Cadence's life. As if the high drama of the Secret Santa drawing wasn't enough,...
7) Betrayal
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A poor kid from the slums, Robert Fitzpatrick grew up to become a stellar FBI agent and challenge the country's deadliest gangsters. In his relentless pursuit of the hated and feared Whitey Bulger, Fitzpatrick fought the nation's most determined cop-gangster battle since Purvis vs. Dillinger. And even the discovery that his biggest obstacle was his own FBI didn't stop Fitzpatrick's crusade to bring down Whitey Bulger and his murderous gang.
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A car wreck and a suspicious death offer a lead on a hired shooter FBI agent Paul Falcon is tracking. Midwest homicide investigator Ann Silver has his attention when she passes the case to him. Is he prepared for both the case's and her secrets?
10) Opening moves
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Bowers files volume Prequel
Publisher
Signet Select
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has stopped someof the most vicious serial killers ever imagined. Now, in the latest excitinginstallment, author James takes readers back to Bowers' terrifying beginning.
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English
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"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century"--
"Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets....
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Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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After graduating from college and an impulsive marriage to independent artist Loretta, Sidney Temple is tapped by J. Edgar Hoover to be the FBI's first African-American agent. The higher Sidney and Loretta climb in Harlem's most influential and glamorous circles, the more dangerous the stakes.
13) The last Templar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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When a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal a particular artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly teams up with Tess for an investigation.
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Smoky Barrett thrillers volume 2
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Special Agent Smoky Barrett is head of the violent crimes unit in Los Angeles, the part of the FBI reserved for tracking down the worst of the worst. Her team has been handpicked from among the nation's elite law enforcement specialists and they are as obsessed and relentless as the psychos they hunt; they'll have to be to deal with this case. A vicious double homicide reveals a killer has embarked on a dark crusade of trauma and death: an artist...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...
16) Sonia Sotomayor
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A biography of Sonia Sotomayor, part of the She Persisted chapter book series.
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37 INK
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice connects the personal and the professional. Taught early, with tough love, how to compete and excel as an African American woman in settings where people of color are few, Susan now shares the wisdom she learned along the way. Laying bare the family struggles that shaped her early life in Washington, DC, she also examines the ancestral legacies that influenced...
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Bitter Creek series volume 7
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a stranger who calls herself Grace Smith, only to discover early the next morning that her real name is Merle Raye Finkel -- and she's a convicted double murderer who broke her parole a year ago and disappeared. Now she's his prime suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S. president. Grace Caldwell is determined to find the killer who framed her for the murder of her father...
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