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41) Deadfall
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Cory and Ty Bic, seventeen, search for an escape from criminals in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
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English
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In this gripping thriller, Claire Keesey, the branch manager for a Boston bank, is taken hostage during a robbery. She is released, but Doug MacRay, the brains behind the tough, tight-knit crew of thieves, can't get her out of his mind. Tracking her down without his mask and gun, Doug introduces himself, and their mutual attraction is undeniable -- as are the risks of a relationship. Doug imagines a life away from bank robberies and Charlestown. But...
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Series
Requiem dark volume 1
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English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Asa flees her domineering father to prevent her sister's mind from being reprogrammed, but she must ally with a smuggler named Riven to outwit a bounty hunter, a criminal syndicate, and a monster lurking in the city's circuits.
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With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre. A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage...
45) The Nazi hunter
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English
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A gripping thriller, The Nazi Hunter mixes fierce partisan Washington politics, the search for ex-Nazi criminals, and a crazed, right-wing militia intent on bringing down the government. Nicknamed "the Nazi Hunter," Marek Cain, deputy director of the Office of Special Investigations at the Justice Department, has for ten years been the point man for tracking down ex-Nazis who have fraudulently entered the United States since World War II and bringing...
46) Perdition
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English
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The prison ship Perdition, a floating city where the Conglomerate's most dangerous criminals are confined for life, orbits endlessly around a barren asteroid. Life inside is even more bleak. Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona 'Dred' Devos controls one of Perdition's six territories, bordered on both sides by would-be kings eager to challenge her claim. Keeping them at bay requires constant vigilance, as well as a steady influx of new recruits...
47) Everybody dies
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.
Then all hell breaks loose.
Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question....
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Wifey volume 6
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English
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Kira gives up being "wifey" and heads down to South Beach, Florida to hustle and sell high-end cars at a luxury car dealership. Her clients are wealthy hedge fund investors and druggies. One druglord is her best and most lucrative customer. When it comes time to pay him back for keeping her pockets lined, she finds her debt comes at an expensive price and is forced to call in major reinforcements.
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This powerful, gritty, and vivid novel is the unforgettable story of Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top. Drug dealer, thief, and murdered, Carlito Brigante was once just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a poor boy's dream of flash and fast money - but as he gets older he determines that it's either take or be taken, and he knows which role he intends to play. Soon he's a mob-connected professional with...
50) Utopia
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
51) The blinds
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English
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Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science-fiction-based thriller from Edgar-finalist Sternbergh (Shovel Ready). In Caesura, an isolated Texas town that's part penal colony, part rehabilitation experiment, Sheriff Calvin Cooper keeps the peace in a community that mixes the most savage of criminals with the victims of horrible crimes. What allows the two groups to coexist is that all their memories have been selectively edited...
52) Criminal Destiny
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world"--
53) A single shot
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English
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After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land, hears a rustle in the brush, and fires a single fateful shot.
Following the bloody trail, he comes upon a shocking scene: an illegal, deep woods campground filled with drugs, bundles of cash and the body of a dead...
54) Sweet hearts
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English
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With a lyrical beauty that reverberates off every page, Sweet Hearts tells the tale of a brother and sister that is as haunting as it is majestic Sixteen-year-old Flint Zimmer escapes juvenile detention, hitchhikes 612 miles across Montana, and arrives home, trailing "bad weather and bad luck," to be reunited with his half sister, ten-year-old Cecile, the only person he trusts and loves. Together they terrorize a local doctor and steal their mother's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Polly McClusky is eleven years old - too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere - when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life. Nate made dangerous enemies in prison: a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside...
56) Moonlocket
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Series
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English
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Follows Lily, Robert, and Malkin the mechanical fox as they race around steampunk, Victorian London trying to solve a mystery involving the criminal mastermind Jack of Diamonds and a family heirloom.
57) The town
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English
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Four masked men-thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown-take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn't plan on one thing: falling hard for Claire. When he tracks her down without his mask and gun, their mutual attraction is undeniable. With a tenacious FBI agent following his every move, he imagines a life away from...
58) Firebreak
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Series
Parker thrillers volume 20
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English
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen...