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"Jack Ryan, Jr. would do anything for Ding Chavez. That's why Jack is currently sitting in an open-air market in Israel, helping a CIA team with a simple job. The man running the mission, Peter Beltz, is an old friend from Ding's Army days. Unfortunately, Ding had to cancel at the last minute and asked Jack to take his place. It's a cushy assignment--a trip to Israel in exchange for a couple hours of easy work--Jack could use the downtime. But when...
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Poe and Dupin mystery volume 2
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"Philadelphia, 1844. As violent tensions escalate between nativists and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe's fears for the safety of his wife, Virginia, and mother-in-law, Muddy, are compounded when he receives a parcel of mummified bird parts ... Just as odd is the arrival of Helena Loddiges, a young heiress who demands Poe's help to discover why her lover died at the city's docks on his return from an expedition to Peru. Poe is skeptical of...
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"Himari Momochi inherits Momochi House, an estate which exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms... Aoi has been kidnapped by Kasha. In order to save him, Himari takes Hakka and barges into Kasha's mansion in the spiritual realm. Everyone there is making preparations for a wedding, but just who is getting married?!"--Back cover.
684) The hunted
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Inspired by the incredible real-life saga of a man caught between two countries, desperate to escape his past. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a democratic government is emerging, but not everyone in the new Russia embraces a free economy. When his top executives start getting murdered, entrepreneur Alex Konevitch makes the mistake of hiring the former deputy director of the KGB to handle his security. After being kidnapped and beaten, Alex...
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Galaxy pirates volume 1
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After her parents are kidnapped, Emma and her best friend Herbie set out on an adventure that takes them through a galaxy populated by pirates, monkeys, the tyrant Queen of Virgo, and other creatures, human and otherwise, as they try to rescue her parents and protect the mysterious Pyxis.
686) Stowaway
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Icarus chronicles volume 1
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To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust- human or alien-to stay alive.
When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth's crust, it's not long before aliens show up to our little corner of the galaxy offering a promise of protection, some fabulous new technology, and entry...
687) The black swan
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Studio classic volume 38
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Pirate Morgan is pardoned and made the new governor of Jamaica on one condition - he must stop his fellow pirates from doing their criminal actions.
688) Bye, baby: a novel
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"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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The Annie Pederson novels volume 2
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"As if the last few months haven't been hard enough, complete with threats on her life and the return of her first love, Jon, Annie has to figure out whether or not to believe a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. Annie's eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, has plenty of questions about what's going on in her mother's life, but there are some stones Annie doesn't want uncovered. As Annie grapples...
690) That darn cat
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When her faithful tomcat D.C. (a.k.a. Darn Cat) brings home an important clue to a mysterious kidnapping, 16-year-old Patti Randall (Ricci) finds her ho-hum hometown suddenly turned into a hotbed of criminal excitement. And when she teams up with rookie FBI agent Kelso (Doug), to try to solve the baffling crime ... these would-be detectives follow That Darn Cat into some unexpected surprises!
691) The ruinous sweep
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Formats
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On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four hours. Where is he? Where is his girlfriend, Bee? In an attempt to flag down the next passing car, he startles the driver, causing a fatal accident. With sirens in the distance and the lingering feeling that he's running from something--or someone--Donovan grabs the dead driver's briefcase and...
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"While researching Born to Run, Chris McDougall encountered the story of Pheidippides, the legendary ancient Greek 'all-day runner.' Later, when McDougall met a dedicated amateur historian, he saw a connection to one of the most fascinating mysteries of World War II: how did a small band of Resistance fighters surrounded by German troops kidnap a top German general? What he discovered is that ancestral techniques for extraordinary endurance, natural...
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Spy school novel volume 11
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"Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young KGB agent with skills to rival Erica's--and lots and lots of bears" --
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Charlie Hernández volume 2
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"When Queen Joanna is kidnapped Charlie and Violet set out across South America to find her and discover a conspiracy to raise the dead"--
696) The Q
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Q volume 1
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When the president's son, Lennon, is kidnapped and pushed out of an airplane over the Q, a vast quarantine zone, Maisie gives him a seventy-two hour vaccine and together the two teenagers attempt to fight their way through the Q in order to survive.
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"Ailsa Connery has waited three long years to finally escape her enslavement at Stirling Castle and reunite with her clan. But her carefully laid plans are completely destroyed by the arrival of the infamous Highland warrior known as Dubh Mahoun, the Black Devil...who has plans of his own. Kallum MacNeill's fearsome reputation has long allowed him to keep hidden his secret double life of freeing enslaved captives across the land. It's only when he...
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Wilde Island chronicles volume 3
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"In 1210 AD, Uma, a Healer raised by a tribe of people native to Wilde Island, must complete an impossible task for the English queen or be burned alive, and her only ally is the part dragon, part fairy Pendragon prince who is struggling with a secret of his own"--
699) A spoonful of murder
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Murder most unladylike mystery volume 6
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When her grandfather dies, fourteen-year-old amateur detective Hazel Wong and her best friend Daisy Wells travel to Hong Kong, where the girls find themselves framed for murder and tangled up in a family mystery.
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Smoke Jensen volume 4
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Before he became known as The Last Mountain Man, Smoke Jensen and his bride Sally were hardworking ranchers on the Colorado frontier, when times were hard, tensions were high, and guns were the law...
For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch near the Colorado-Kansas border is the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. When a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock with a well-armed militia,...