Dick Hill
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Jack Reacher novels volume 22
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English
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"Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny; it's for a woman. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring, which has her initials engraved on the inside. Why not? So begins a harrowing journey...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 21
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English
Description
"Discover the thriller series that The New York Times calls 'utterly addictive.' After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, Lee Child sends readers back to school with the most explosive Jack Reacher novel yet. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom--an FBI agent...
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Penn Cage novels volume 3
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English
Description
Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
5) Blood work
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Terry McCaleb volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
After she was murdered in Los Angeles, the heart of Gloria Torres was transplanted to save the life of onetime FBI agent Terry McCaleb. Now McCaleb returns the favor by going after Gloria's killer. By the author of Trunk Music.
6) 24 hours
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English
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A kidnapping ransom-seeker whose devious technological abilities have helped him get away with the crime many previous times now targets Will and Karen Jennings' five-year-old daughter Abby, and the family has only twenty-four hours to thwart his plan
7) Trunk music
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 5
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English
Description
Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge. But his first case is a little more than he bargained for. It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range, what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit. But the LAPD's organized crime unit is curiously uninterested, and when Harry follows a trail of gambling debts to...
8) The siege
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Alan Gregory novels volume 17
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English
Description
As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students--including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and newest Supreme Court justice--may have gone missing. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale's secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he joins FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake to solve the riddle...
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English
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In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The...
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English
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An international bestseller: Murder becomes a high tech game of cat and mouse in this “thinking man’s thriller” from the master of Nordic noir (The New York Times Book Review).
Ystad, Sweden. A man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and inexplicably falls to the ground dead. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. They are quickly apprehended, shocking local policemen with their complete...
Ystad, Sweden. A man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and inexplicably falls to the ground dead. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. They are quickly apprehended, shocking local policemen with their complete...
11) True evil
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English
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As FBI Special Agent Alexandra Morse's sister lies dying in the hospital, she whispers that she has been attacked and that her husband is responsible. Alex's investigations lead to a handful of suspicious deaths, all tied to one divorce lawyer. By staking out his office, she identifies the killer's next victim, Dr. Chris Shepard. Together Alex and the doctor try to unravel the multilayered scheme that has been set into motion
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Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 6
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English
Description
Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory gets involved in a vast conspiracy of murder and managed health care when he is called to consult on the case of an apparent suicide attempt by fifteen-year-old Merritt Strait, a girl whose infant stepsister is dying of a rare heart disease.
13) Dead time
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Alan Gregory novels volume 16
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English
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Psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with both a newly adopted son and a shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then his ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help locating the missing surrogate mother of her soon-to-be-born child, and Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years--with ramifications that are disturbingly current.--From publisher description
14) The river why
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English
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Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a secluded cabin on a remote riverbank to pursue his own fly-fishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss, Gus becomes increasingly troubled by the degradation of the natural world around him and by the spiritual barrenness of his own life. His desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery and meaning,...
15) River god
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Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 1
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English
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After being ravaged by war, the loyal subjects of the Pharoah gather in Thebes on the eve of the festival of Osiris to pay tribute to their leader
16) Honor bound
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Honor bound volume 1
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English
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It's 1942 and a Marine aviator, an Army paratrooper, and a non-com radio man are on an impossible mission for the Office of Strategic Services. They must sabotage the resupply of German ships and submarines by any means necessary
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Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 3
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English
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A warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient gods and adept in magic, leaves the desert to return to the world of men, only to find himself drawn into a battle for the throne of Egypt
19) Behind the lines
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Corps volume 7
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English
Description
It's Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy's mission to sneak behind Japanese lines in the Philippines to find the truth about a guerrilla leader.