Dick Hill
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Sword of truth volume 4
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Jagang, Emperor of the Imperial Order, has invoked a bound fork prophecy binding Richard and Kahlan to a fate of pain, betrayal, and a path to the Underworld. At Jagang's behest a Sister of the Dark gains access into the fabled Temple of the Winds and has unleashed a plague that sweeps across the lands like a firestorm consuming lives at an alarming rate. To stop the plague Richard and Kahlan are forced to sacrifice everything they have between them....
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"Alexandra Gaither is an attorney who finally has the power to get the justice she needs. Twenty-five years before, her mother had died a scandalous death. Alex believes one of three powerful men murdered her. Each is charming, each is a suspect, and each tries to shield her from his past. But not one of them can stop her passionate search for the truth. Like her mother before her, Alex sparks controversy and excitement in this remote Texas town....
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Brilliance Audio
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p1993
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The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen, whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions, whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women, whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But, nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk.
These two...
85) Abduction
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A mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding and a discovery that will change everything we know about life on earth.
86) Dragonsblood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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With the dragons of Pern dying and the only person who can save them long dead, the grieving dragon riders find clues in the lyrics of an ancient ballad to long forgotten knowledge and secrets hidden somewhere in Benden Weyr. In Dragon's Kin, best selling author Anne McCaffrey did the unthinkable: for the first time ever, she invited another writer to join her in the skies of her most famous fictional creation, that writer was her son, Todd McCaffrey....
87) Retreat, hell!
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Corps volume 10
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English
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During the Korean War, as the Marines make a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, General Douglas MacArthur becomes determined to cross the 38th parallel, certain that the Chinese will not enter the war. Meanwhile, General Fleming Pickering attempts to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and President Truman
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"After traveling through the Dance of the Gods to reach the land of Geall, the circle finds themselves convincing, then training the people of Geall to defeat Lilith's vampire army. The Valley of Silence is a forbidding place for the battle of all battles, but the circle continues to prepare through magic and a few early stakeouts that test their strength individually and as a team. Moira finds herself playing the roles of warrior and royal, as she...
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Shane Scully novels volume 2
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English
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6 Los Angeles cops, originally sent deep underground to bust an extremely violent international criminal network, and thought to be dead for the past couple of years, are still alive and turned rogue, calling themselves the Vikings. LAPD Sgt. Shane Scully is back in action!
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Repairman Jack novels volume 12
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Hired to find a legendary Japanese sword that had been stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum, Jack finds his task complicated by dangerous rivals for the sword and a pregnant teen who is carrying a child of destiny.
91) Line of fire
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Alan Gregory novels volume 19
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Alan Gregory is finally beginning to feel settled, hopeful that a long period of upheaval in his private life is behind him. He refocuses his energy on his clinical psychology practice, where a beguiling new patient is challenging his values. The interlude of calm doesn't last, of course: Alan's dear friend Diane is showing signs of a long-simmering emotional collapse, and Alan's greatest fear, the exposure of his most dangerous secret, has become...
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One night. One shift. No rest. Featuring the 87th Precinct's entire cast of characters, this Halloween takes them into the darkest corners of depravity the city has to offer. And sometimes, surviving is the greatest treat of them all. From a liquor store hold-up ending with a dead owner and four costumed 'kids' making off with the money to the pieces of a man showing up around the city, the Day of the Dead is turning the streets into a carnival of...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 11
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English
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In her junk closet, Mrs. Pollifax has found a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk insists she's being followed by two men in a dirty white van. Mrs. P. soon learns Kadi is connected to the assassination of an African president.
94) Cold choices
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Following the events Jerry Mitchell encountered in Dangerous Ground, the pilot-turned-submarine officer is now a department head, the navigator, aboard USS Seawolf. Now on a mission deep in the Barents Sea, north of Russia, Seawolf explores the sea floor, part of a sophisticated reconnaissance plan that will watch the Russian navy as it trains for battle. Although well outside Russia's territorial waters, Seawolf is ambushed by Russia's newest submarine,...
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A volume of short works featuring the popular investigator features Wallander as a young patrolman on his first case, a new father facing unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, a middle-aged man solving a poisoning death, a separated husband investigating a photographer's murder, and a veteran detective connecting a dual murder to a plane crash
96) Spider Mountain
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Cam Richter novels volume 2
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English
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Summoned by a friend, ex-cop Cam Richter agrees to do a favor. Investigate the assault of a young woman in a remote area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Kareem was an Afghan resistance fighter of the 1980s and was once on the CIA payroll. But, now he's responsible for the murder of an American CIA agent in Pakistan, which may compromise an intricate, long-planned CIA operation to capture Osama bin Laden.
CIA officer Paul Patterson, who ran Kareem as an agent during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, sets out to track him down. Patterson navigates a shadow land of intrigue in England, Africa, the...
98) Nightwalkers
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Cam Richter novels volume 4
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English
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Cam Richter, needing a break from his too-eventful detective career, is in search of more peaceful pastures in the North Carolina countryside. He buys a seven hundred acre ante-bellum plantation, but it doesn't take long for him to discover that his new locale is not as quiet as he'd hoped.
Almost immediately, Cam finds himself caught up in mischievous pranks around his land, the site of a Civil War-era massacre. When the pranks turn hostile, however,...
99) The cat dancers
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Cam Richter novels volume 1
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English
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A horrific crime is committed in Manceford County, N.C., but the perpetrators are set free because they were not read their rights, leaving Sheriff Bobby Lee Baggett and Lt. Cam Richter to face the wrath of the victims' families. An email arrives with a link to a video showing one of the murderers being executed in a home-made electric chair. Bobby and Cam must find the vigilante before he claims his second victim. Their search leads them to group...
100) The hostage
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Presidential Agent novels volume 2
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English
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"Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more is the man to whom the President turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now. An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is told, if she doesn't tell them where her brother is - a brother, as it turns out,...