John Shea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 31
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"The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Now a Major Motion Picture! In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly losing everything, including his sanity. A searing, compelling...
7) Warlord
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Someone from the past has the British crown in his sights again, and has proven once before that these threats are not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty British-American M16 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke needs to get back in action -- if the madman doesn't wreak total havoc first.
8) Patriot
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Pub. Date
2015.
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When the Kremlin develops a new weapon with the potential of reshaping Europe, MI6 officer Alex Hawke investigates a series of assassinations to prevent a full-scale world war.
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Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 2
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In an elegant palazzo on the Grand Canal, an American ambassador's tryst turns deadly. In the seamy underbelly of London, a pub-crawling killer is on the loose. And in a storybook chapel nestled in the Cotswolds, a marriage made in heaven turns to hell on earth. Isolated incidents? A shadowy figure known as the Dog is believed to be the ruthless terrorist who is systematically and savagely assassinating American diplomats and their families around...
12) The Time Pirate
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Pub. Date
p2010
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Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.
Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins.
They couldn't hate it more.
The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Donna, the clan's mother, is...
13) Spy: a thriller
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Things along America's southern border are rapidly reaching the boiling point. American girls are being snatched from their homes, ranches are burning, and armed Mexican troops cross the border at will in support of narcotics smugglers and illegal immigrants. By day, Americans take up arms and plan reprisals. An all-out border war is no longer inconceivable--it's happening! On assignment for the British Secret Service, a man leads a mysterious expedition...
14) Hawke: a novel
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Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 1
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A modern-day swashbuckler and one of England's most decorated naval heroes, Lord Alexander Hawke heads for the Caribbean on a top-secret mission for the U.S. government to locate an experimental stealth submarine built by the Soviets just prior to the end of the Cold War which has fallen into the hands of an unstable government planning a preemptive strike against the U.S.
15) Pirate: a novel
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When the free world is threatened by an oil-hungry China and her allies, Alexander Hawke works with British Naval Intelligence and the CIA to uncover a dangerous scheme intended to topple America and establish China's supremacy.
16) Nick of time
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Twelve-year-old Nick tries to help his father and sister send information to England about the imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet.
17) Mind prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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One of therapist Andi Manette's former patients has kidnapped her and her two daughters. When the kidnapper phones with taunts and hints, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport begins to feel like a character in one of his own computer simulation games. He must figure out clues to the kidnapper's identity before he can find where he s holding his prey. Davenport's time is running out, and his score is still desperately low...
20) Overkill
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[2018]
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"Putting it all on the line to rescue his kidnapped son pits counterspy Alex Hawke against Russian President Vladimir Putin in this action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author Ted Bell. On a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps high above St. Moritz, Alex Hawke and his young son, Alexei, are thrust into danger when the tram carrying them to the top of the mountain bursts into flame, separating the two. Before he can reach Alexei, the boy...