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41) Black heart
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization.
Author
Series
System Divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
582 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
45) The conspiracy
Author
Series
Maximum Security volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Harper Winston's brother has disappeared. Pursuing his dream of sailing the Caribbean, Michael hasn't responded to texts or emails in days. When even the Coast Guard can't find him, Harper is forced to take desperate measures. Which means going to Chase Garrett, once her brother's best friend, now the only man she can trust, or so she hopes.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Description
Polly McClusky is eleven years old - too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere - when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life. Nate made dangerous enemies in prison: a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.
Author
Series
Heart of Cheyenne volume 1
Formats
Description
"Marybeth and Edward are compelled by their circumstances to marry as they trek west to the newly formed railroad town of Cheyenne. But life in Cheyenne is fraught with danger, and they find that they need each other more than ever. Despite the trials they face, will happiness await them in this arrangement of convenience?"--
Author
Series
Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xv, 892 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers.
50) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
51) Four dead queens
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Keralie is the best pickpocket in all of the kingdoms of Quadara, but when she steals a "comm disk" and realizes a royal murder plot is afoot, she must learn who to trust and fast.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
196 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.
53) Omertá
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
346 pages
Description
"Tras toda una vida consagrada al mundo del crimen, Don Raymonde Aprile decide ceder el testigo al joven Astorre, su mano derecha. De esta manera, pretende preservar la intachable trayectoria de sus hijos, que han vivido al margen de la Mafia, y dedicarse a supervisar los bancos internacionales que posee. Sin embargo, el agente Cilke, del FBI, verá con recelo la jubilación de Don Aprile."--Amazon.com.
54) Floodgate
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Andy Destra is a mostly honest cop in the most notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden city in America: Auction City. After discovering explosive information that reveals corruption within the highest levels of the police department, Andy is kicked off the force, framed, and disgraced, left to wage a lonely one-man crusade against conspiracies he can't prove. Andy's investigation plunges him into a blackly comic maelstrom of one-armed gang members, slick...
55) Urban outlaws
Author
Series
Urban Outlaws volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Deep beneath London, five extraordinary youths, orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s), but they are in serious trouble when they face a genius super-computer, Proteus.
56) Lockdown
Author
Series
Urban Outlaws volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When an ally betrays the Urban Outlaws and steals a dangerous computer virus, the kids have no choice but to team up with a shadowy figure known as "The Shepherd" to take down their foe, and as they explore the unfamiliar streets and secret passageways of New York City and Los Angeles, they once again risk everything to save themselves. . . and the world"--
57) The identity man
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, smalltime criminal Shannon goes on the run, receives an enigmatic text message, is captured and taken to a laboratory where he's given a new face, a new name, and a new life, courtesy of the mysterious "identity man," and finds work as a carpenter. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It seems that lots of crooked people--including cops, politicians, and gangsters--want...
58) Ciudad en llamas
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve años, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "músculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandés que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo más y sueña con empezar de cero, en algún lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que...
59) Apt pupil
Author
Formats
Description
"Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander's dark and deadly past ... a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day.Yet Todd doesn't want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story...
60) Shantaram
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1141 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
A novel based upon the life of the author about Lin, an escaped convict who disappears into the dark side of Bombay's streets and enters into a life of murder and betrayal, prison and torture, and war.
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