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1) The Martian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
2) The expats
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English
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Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage ... and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to start anew. While Kate reinvents herself as an expat, her husband works incessantly at a job she has never understood. Then another American couple arrives, and Kate becomes suspicious...
3) Heartbroken
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English
Description
"Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. Across town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map. Owned...
4) Red sparrow
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Series
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English
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Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict, attorney David Sloane accepts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. A woman wants Sloane to sue the U.S. government and military in the mysterious death of her husband, a national guardsman killed in Iraq. While a decades-old military doctrine might make her case impossible to win, Sloane, a former soldier, is compelled to seek justice for the widow...
6) Collusion
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English
Description
When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover, Marie McKenna, and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. Lennon has no intention of following orders that may endanger the only family he has. Meanwhile, an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs--Publisher's...
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Two centuries ago on a battlefield, Tyler Hawthorne bargained for his life. In exchange, he became a Messenger, one who hears the final thoughts of the dying and conveys them to their loved ones. Since then his life has been nomadic and solitary. Now the dying are hinting that his long service may be over, and Tyler begins to hope for a normal, mortal life with Amanda, the woman he loves. But Tyler is being pursued by an old enemy who will stop at...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s Eliot Ness, the famous treasury agent who helped convict Al Capone, accepts a high-ranking public safety position in Cleveland. The discovery of a dismembered torso soon plunges the city into a state of terror. As the body count rises, Ness pours more energy and manpower into his investigation, desperately trying to live up to his larger-than-life reputation.
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Red Rover is broken, finished, dead. The blackest of black ops teams is betrayed on a mission to capture and interrogate a mysterious Saudi. One of their own is killed, the remaining two barely get home alive. Then without warning or explanation the mission is shut down and Greg Whitman and Felix Orteno are left adrift in a world full of deathly shadows and unanswerable questions. Into their midst comes Charlize Daou, a brilliant, wildly talented...
10) Rogue
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English
Description
Robin Monarch is not your ordinary spy. As an orphan in the worst slum of Buenos Aires, he became a thief to survive until a near-fatal injury changed the course of his life forever. Now, after abruptly walking out on the CIA in the middle of a mission, he is back to his old ways. But when he becomes a pawn in an intricate plot to finish the mission he abandoned, those who thought they knew him best discover the truth about Robin Monarch. And about...
11) Zero history
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English
Description
Former rock singer Hollis Henry and ex-addict Milgrim, an accomplished linguist, are at the front line of a sinister proprietor's attempts to get a slice of the military budget. When a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers, they gradually realize their employer has some very dangerous competitors--including Garreth, a ruthless ex-military officer with lots of friends. Set largely in London...
12) Half Moon Bay
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A smart, haunting tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind. Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Jane is devastated, but sometime later, she makes one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from San Francisco to the tiny seaside town of Half Moon Bay. She is inconsolable, and yet, as the months go by, she is able to cobble together some version...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In Jewish scripture, there is a legend: There are thirty-six righteous people on earth. The thirty-six protect us. Without them, humanity would perish. In Beijing, a monk collapses. A fiery mark appears on his back. In Mumbai, it is an economist who served the poor. Similar deaths are reported around the world. In Venice, an enterprising Italian policeman links them. Who is killing the world's good people. In Copenhagen, police preparing for a world...
14) The good killer
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
"In the newest thriller from best-selling author Harry Dolan, Sean Tennant stops a deadly mass shooter. And that act of courage may get him killed. Sean Tennant and Molly Winter are living quietly and cautiously in Houston when a troubled, obsessive stranger shatters the safety they have carefully constructed for themselves. Sean is at a shopping mall when Henry Alan Keen, scorned by a woman he's been dating, pulls out a gun at the store where she...
15) The tenant
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
"When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
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Over the course of eleven novels, readers were enthralled by Thomas Black's adventures and his growing relationship with partner Kathy Birchfield. Now, after almost a decade on hiatus, Thomas and Kathy have been working on opposite sides of a charged political campaign. But when an airplane plunges into Cape Disappointment taking the life of a senator and leading to Kathy's disappearance, Thomas finds himself investigating alone.
17) They disappeared
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Mechanic Jeff Griffin and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face turmoil that has them teetering on divorce. While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to buy camera batteries and returns to find that Sarah and Cole have vanished. Battling his anguish and police suspicions, Jeff fights to rescue his wife and son. He knows now that the love...
19) Young Philby
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English
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When Kim Philby fled to Moscow in 1963, he became the most notorious double agent in history. A British intelligence agent since World War II, he had risen to become their chief officer in Washington. Exposure of other double agents led to the revelation that Philby had been working for Russia longer than he had been part of MI6. Now Robert Littell recounts the early years of this fascinating, flawed man who kept people guessing until the very end....
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his Confessions of an Opium-Eater, confronts London's harrowing streets to thwart the assassination of Queen Victoria. The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible...