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Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trapped in the Shepherds' hidden base after her father is kidnapped, Gillian reaches out to a rogue Shepherd for help before following clues to a completely transformed Omega City and into outer space, where an astonishing secret is revealed.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 310 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A secret society of extraordinary geniuses is about to share an incredible discovery with the world. A misguided enemy--half man, half machine--will stop at nothing to prevent the group from giving this forbidden knowledge to humanity. And a mother and son on vacation in New York City are handed a comic book infused with a secret code that will lead them to the middle of the conspiracy. Unlock a world of unfathomable science and technology, of unlimited...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a bombing at 10 Downing Street wounds the prime minister and tests Britain's resolve, American ex-cop Adam Tatum must confront a conspiracy in the highest halls of power. . . . Former Michigan detective Adam Tatum receives an unexpected offer, a golden opportunity that seems almost too good to be true. He travels to 10 Downing Street to participate in a high-stakes conference. Immediately after his visit, a bomb detonates, wounding the prime...
84) Normal
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some people call it 'abyss gaze.' Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geoengineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and ways to prepare clients for Our Coming Doom. The former...
85) El asociado
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1. ed. Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Promising law school graduate Kyle McAvoy's dark secret is discovered by some unscrupulous characters who blackmail him into taking a job with a prestigious law firm, where he participates in an illegal and dangerous scheme.
Prometedor oscuro secreto del colegio de abogados graduados Kyle McAvoy es descubierto por unos personajes sin escrúpulos que chantajearlo a tomar un trabajo con un prestigioso bufete de abogados, donde participa en un sistema...
Author
Series
Omega City volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though Gillian and her friends were the ones to find the lost doomsday bunker, no one seems to care about their thoughts on the whereabouts of its creator, Dr. Underberg, or learning the truth about the Shepherds, a mysterious group that will stop at nothing to keep Underberg--and Omega City--a secret. All that changes when Gillian and her friends are invited to speak at a lecture series at Guidant Technology. Finally they're being recognized for...
87) The scapegoat
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father-- unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. After a chance meeting with a young doctor, N begins to have vivid, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa, and a shameful...
88) Best laid plans
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
554 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
To solve a murder, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid must convince a belligerent teen prostitute named Kassie to help with the investigation, which endangers her career and her relationship with Sean Rogen.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet Phil Snyder: new father, nursing assistant at a cutting-edge biotech facility on Staten Island, and all-around decent guy. Trouble is, his life is falling apart. His wife has betrayed him, his job involves experimental surgeries with strange side effects, and his father is hiding early-onset dementia. Phil also has a special talent he doesn't want to publicize--he's a mind reader and moonlights as Brainstorm, a costumed superhero. But when Phil...
90) The shell game
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxii, 487 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The events of September 11, 2001, the invasion of Iraq, radical Islamists, an impending showdown with Iran-what do these have in common? Oil. And the world is running out. The Shell Game is far more than a thriller; it is a cautionary tale that exposes the next 9/11 event, a deception that will lead to a retaliatory chemical weapons strike on Iran and the terrorist elements that the regime supports. Though written as fiction, this novel is filled...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself on an airplane bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of a loyal young party member who supposedly had an illicit relationship with the party director. His instructions are to determine if her suicide was actually a cover-up for murder, and if so, to find her killer. Korolev finds help from several quarters, but none of them can make up for the one important fact of his case which he cannot...
Author
Series
Roman life and times volume 2
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
254 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld, covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller represents Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies--real and imagined. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? Yet he may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1741, America is at war with Catholic Spain. Phoebe watches as her town erupts into mass hysteria when the whites in New York City accuse the black slaves of setting fires to start an uprising. With people implicating each other at every turn, Phoebe has to decide if she's willing to save her friend Cuffee from execution, or if her own conscience and quest for freedom will be singed by her indiscretions. This hypnotic tale, drawn from an obscure...
96) Traitor's blade
Author
Series
Greatcoats volume 1
Publisher
Jo Fletcher
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reduced to demeaning work when the Greatcoats are disbanded after the king's death, swordsman Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates are framed for murder by a scheming adversary who would destroy everything they once worked to create.
97) In for a penny
Author
Series
Publisher
Crossroads Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
373 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Lillian Summer Fairview's husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot mess. While Lil was busy being a proper Southern lady, Harlan squandered dang near the whole family fortune on lottery tickets. To keep her financial skeletons in the closet and give him a decent burial, Lil made a deal that has now landed her in prison. Desperate to keep her troubles a secret...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Mostly Void, Partially Stars introduces us to Night Vale, a town in the American Southwest where every conspiracy theory is true, and to the strange but friendly people who live there.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"If there's a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn't found it. After her husband's sudden death, the runaway success of the tech company they built with their best friends has become overwhelming. Her nerves are frayed, she's disengaged, and her frustrated daughter, Shorie, is pulling away from her. Maybe Erin's friends and family are right. Maybe a few weeks at a spa resort in the Caribbean islands is just what she needs to hit the reset button......