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4) Transparent
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Connell is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father. But now, she and her mother have escaped and are hiding out in a small town where they're determined to start a normal life."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Vowing to bring down the crime boss running the city, a group of Gentlemen Bastards, led by Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own game, taking on other thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and thugs in the process.
Author
Series
Zach Adams novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he's a soft-spoken homicide detective from Houston known for his integrity and courage under fire. He serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster who has taken over the American underworld. In a centuries old forest, under a full moon, a beast assaults him, cursing him forever... transforming him into something deadly.......
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Niagara Falls, 1851. Julia Barrett is ready to make a fresh start with Adam Wolcott-- even if it means putting her dream of traveling west with the Mormons on hold. But when Adam's return is overshadowed by the unexpected arrival of a young orphan girl in desperate need of help, Julia is drawn into a dangerous mystery that will threaten all she holds dear.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.
In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies.
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles...
In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies.
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles...
10) Speakeasy
Author
Series
Lena Stillman novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this literate and action-packed historical thriller, set during World War II, a plucky code-breaker fights to keep a deadly secret as her Bonnie-and-Clyde past threatens to catch up with her. Thirty-year-old Lena Stillman is living a perfectly respectable life when a shocking newspaper headline calls up her past: it concerns her former lover, charismatic bank robber Bill Bagley. A romantic and charming figure, Lena had tried to forget him by resuming...
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
""If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." -- Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But...
12) Black duck
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
252 pages text
Language
English
Description
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
13) Boulder Dam
Author
Language
English
Description
"Straddling the great Colorado River, a huge structure is slowly rising--a dam that will alter the course of this ravaging river and harness its awesome power. Men from all over America have flocked to the site, laboring at the dam by day and filling the nearby Las Vegas gambling houses by night. To Lynn Weston, a rich man's son, working on the dam means independence and the chance to prove his physical courage. But an even greater challenge faces...
14) Live by night
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent...
15) The lost
Author
Publisher
Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st US ed.
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
16) Dead or alive
Author
Series
DI Sep Black novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed tale of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl, the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl, growing up in golden age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.
18) Boy 21
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
19) Den of Vipers
Author
Publisher
K.A. Knight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
637 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel--The Vipers. They run this town and everyone in it. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. Yes, sold me. They own me now. I'm theirs in every sense of the word. But I've never been meek and...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a future New York where most people can fly and cats are a rarity, a nondescript resident of Hope House for the Homeless and Hopeless discovers that although she is shunned as a "leadfoot," she has the surprising ability to become invisible.
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