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81) The final gambit
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Series
Description
After returning to New York from their adventures in the South Pole, Molly, Cassandra, and Emmett are threatened by powerful enemies and go into hiding, but when they discover a plot against presidential candidate Thomas Edison, they decide to make a perilous journey to Washington D.C. to save him.
Author
Publisher
Ratpac Press, in collaboration with Running Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
After his reclusive, math-genius brother is murdered, Jack's search for the killer sends him to the Seven Wonders of the World, where he stumbles upon an ancient mystery.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
431 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
84) The book of love
Author
Series
Magdalene line volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
516 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
After returning from her successful hunt for the scrolls of Mary Magdalene, Maureen Paschal receives an ancient document from the secret wife of a pope that reveals hidden aspects of the early Christian church.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened.
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Series
Pegasus series (Kate O'Hearn) volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
425 pages cm.
Description
Emily is contending with great changes, including diminished powers, but goes to London to rescue Agent B and others from the CRU, where she makes horrible discoveries about the agency's history.
88) The sign
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Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Given the ultimate chance to prove herself when a Russian defector walks into her post, brilliant young CIA officer Amanda Cole teams up with a fearless--and legendary--spy to unravel an international conspiracy--one shockingly linked to her father, a spyduring the Cold War.
90) House rivals
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 10
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
In House Rivals, the tenth book in Mike Lawson's award-winning series, DeMarco is taken further out of his element than ever before, sent to North Dakota to protect a passionate but naïve twenty-two-year-old blogger who has put herself in harm's way.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Becoming increasingly uneasy about suspicious activities at a new job she felt lucky to land, Josephine makes a terrible realization and is forced to confront dangerous and powerful elements in order to protect her loved ones.
92) The short drop
Author
Series
Gibson Vaughn novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard-then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency-disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession.
93) Strike
Author
Series
SYLO chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
431 p. ;
Description
Once again, Tucker Pierce and friends must fight for their lives against the better-equipped SYLO, and they will risk nearly everything to keep each other safe the battle's climax nears.
94) Moongarden
Author
Series
Plotting the stars volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
Ages 10+
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When the Sphinx is blown up by terrorists who also launch attacks on an Iranian soccer team and a vessel in the Red Sea, Kyle Swanson and his Trident team uncover an extremist plot to provoke war between Egypt and Iran to upset the balance of international power.
96) Three
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Description
1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past reports on the case while also reflecting on the relationship between the three friends, who were unusually close when...
97) The wizard heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
458 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Seph, a powerful wizard, gets caught up in a conflict between the Wizard Council, smaller groups with their own agendas, and a rogue politician--the Dragon--whose identity and whereabouts the others seek to know.
Author
Series
Munchem Academy volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When Mattie Larimore is sent to reform school he uncovers a creepy conspiracy, led by Headmaster Rooney, to fix all the problem children, including Mattie's brother--for good.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
367 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe containing a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
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Series
Publisher
Skybound Books/Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Astrid seeks to bring down the Sisterhood from within, while, on an outlaw colony station deep in space, Hiro val Akira seeks to bring a dangerous ally into the rebellion, and Lito sol Lucius continues to grow into his role as lead revolutionary.
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