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621) House blood
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c2012
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DeMarco's asked to look into the murder conviction of a lobbyist, but has other worries on his mind: his boss is no longer Speaker, his girlfriend's left him, and his friend Emma may be dying.
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c1998
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After her father, an armaments salesman, is arrested for illegal sales, a New York woman must navigate between love and filial duty. The problem for Allison Rosenthal, a law student, is that she is having an affair with the lawyer who is prosecuting her father. By the author of Sacrifice of Isaac.
623) Taft 2012: a novel
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[2012]
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"He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can't get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he's an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. There's just one problem. He is William Howard Taft . . . and he was already president a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing...
625) Dark winter
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By the time anyone realizes what's happening, it is too late. A dark network of hackers has infiltrated the computers of the U.S. military, unleashing chaos across the globe. U.S. missiles strike the wrong targets. Defense systems fail. Power grids shut down. Within hours, America's enemies move in. Russian tanks plow through northern Europe. Iranian troops invade Iraq. North Korean destroys Seoul and fires missiles at Japan. Phase 1 of ComWar is...
626) The attack
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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Dr. Amin Jaafie, an Arab-Israeli citizen working as a respected surgeon, finds his life torn apart in the wake of a terrorist bombing at a local restaurant as he deals with the discovery that his own wife was the suicide bomber responsible.
627) Her London Season
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2022
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London, 1940.
The Battle of Britain rages while Stella Bled sits frustrated on the sidelines. Her husband, Nicky, is unreachable as he risks his life flying in a Spitfire and she has to recover from her mission in France without her beloved Bijou or a single familiar face.
Stella isn’t exactly content to rest, but she has no choice until a mysterious set of orders arrives at Castle Caladh. Something isn’t right, but Stella’s eager to return...
628) Dark victory
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Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Amsterdam 1940. It's only a matter of time and time is running out. The Third Reich is sweeping across Europe and Stella Bled Lawrence wants nothing more than to get out of the way. After three months undercover, the young spy is ready to return to England for a well-deserved rest, but fate and a friend at the Admiralty have other ideas. Stella receives a second assignment and she wasn't the first choice or even the third. Hardly, a vote of confidence,...
629) No way back
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2022.
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NYPD Detective Jack McNeal is overcome by disbelief and despair upon the discovery of his wife's murder. To avenge her death, he embarks on a journey into the darkest recesses of power.
NYPD detective Jack McNeal is used to asking the tough questions. But a late-night visit from the Secret Service lands Jack on the other side of the table—as a suspect in the disappearance of his estranged wife, Caroline, a prominent reporter on the White House beat....
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Pub. Date
2021
Description
Paris 1940
The Reich is moving in and Stella Bled Lawrence can’t get out.
Stella has proved adept at the double agent game, too adept as it turns out. The British want her to stay where she is, even though she’s about to be trapped, and worse, the Nazis want to expand her work into a distressing direction.
When two Nazi agents go rogue, Stella is at the right place at the wrong time. She ends up on the worst mission possible and her Nazi handler...
631) Vengeance Calling
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Series
American Mercenary volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A condemned hero. An unlikely ally. And the plot to assassinate a criminal mastermind...
David Rivers' luck has finally run out. He's been condemned to certain death as a deep cover agent. But his new mission reveals an unlikely ally with one shared goal: the death of David's greatest enemy. A brilliant assassination plot is already underway. And the final element is trapped amid the firestorm of a civil war in Myanmar. To kill his opponent...
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2017.
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""A moving story. powerful, celebratory, and loving." -- Laura Cardona, La Nacion. Set in the midst of Argentina's military dictatorship, a poignant and evocative debut novel about family, political violence, and the consequences of dissidence As political violence escalates around them, a young boy and his single mother live together in an apartment in Buenos Aires -- which has recently been taken over by Argentina's military dictatorship. When...
633) Red sky
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Pub. Date
2017
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"When People's Republic Flight 91 crashes in northeastern Ukraine with a U.S. diplomatic agent onboard, U.S. Diplomatic Secruity Service agent Raisa Jordan is sent to investigate. The agent was escorting a prisoner home from Guangzhou, China, along with sensitive documents, and it quickly becomes apparent that the plane was intentionally downed. Was it to silence the two Americans onboard? To avoid a diplomatic incident, Jordan must discover what...
634) The Suicide Cartel
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American Mercenary volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"David Rivers wanted to lead his team in war. What he got was a suicide mission...
David Rivers is no ordinary mercenary. He's just been assigned command of a team in the international criminal war raging in South America. But the Triple Frontier region is deadly. Narcos and terrorists rule its remote jungle, and David must lead his team into the heart of danger. Getting in is easy. Getting out might be impossible. When a high-risk recon mission...
635) Terminal Objective
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American Mercenary volume 6
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"A war has been raging. Russia is the final battleground. David Rivers will be the first in.
From the city streets of the US to the war-torn deserts of Africa. From the snow-capped mountains of Asia to the narco-controlled jungles of South America, forces have been fighting for control of the ultimate criminal empire.
When an act of violence plunges the contenders into a final confrontation, David Rivers is sent in. He's the first operative...
636) Defiance
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2023.
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"The 22nd book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi"--
637) Brotherhood: a novel
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2021.
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"Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman’s personal reckoning with a leadership that would take her beloved child’s life. At the same time, spurred on by their indignation at what seems to be an escalation of The Brotherhood’s brutality, a band of intellectuals...
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First team series volume 3
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When, after years of tough negotiations, North Korea's Kim Jong Il suddenly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons, a suspicious U.S. government sends the First Team in to stop a mysterious conspiracy plotting a full-scale nuclear attack.
639) China room
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2021.
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Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend their days hard at work in the family's "china room," sequestered from contact with the men-except when their domineering mother-in-law, Mai, summons them to a darkened chamber at night. Curious and strong willed, Mehar tries to piece together what Mai doesn't want her to know....
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2023.
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After an African American boy dies at a house party from an apparent drug overdose, Lilach, when racial tensions in the community are ignited and her son Adam is implicated in the crime, begins to question everything she knows about him, wondering if her quiet, reclusive boy could be a killer.