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1) Wolf pack
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Language
English
Description
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife--and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he's asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up...
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Series
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English
Description
"Jina Modell definitely doesn't feel like a 'Babe', especially when she's working with the gruff, no-nonsense Levi Butcher, team leader for the GO-Team. When the Syrian base where she's stationed is attacked, Jina manages to escape. Levi would never willingly leave a soldier behind, especially a brave woman whose sweet voice haunts his every thought. Once he discovers Jina is alive, the tenacious warrior will walk into fire to save this intriguing...
Author
Series
Brit in the FBI novel volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine take on a ruthless mastermind in the fifth highly anticipated thriller in the New York Times bestselling A Brit in the FBI series. When several major political figures die mysteriously, officials declare the deaths are from natural causes. Then the German Vice-Chancellor dies on the steps of 10 Downing Street, and a drone is spotted hovering over the scene. The truth becomes clear--these high-profile...
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Series
Tea shop mystery volume 20
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out. As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the drone, hovering like some...
5) American war
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Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Description
"An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private Investigator Roland Ford is about to risk everything to save a friend. Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene. His troubled friend Lindsey Rakes is afraid for her own life and the life of her son after a fellow flight crew member is killed in brutal fashion. Even more terrifying is the odd note the killer left behind: "Vengeance is justice. The thunder...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 hr., 53 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Is there a traitor at Dreamland? When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland's drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored to be involved, as is Russia. But finding out who's really bankrolling the guerrillas means finding someone who knows combat UAVs inside and out. Someone with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using her computer hacking skills and her drone to scan the streets of Brooklyn, Parker Reading follows clues and locates a local bank robber--until the thief employs similar methods to turn the tables on Parker and track her down.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a classified mission to help the Israeli Defense Forces stop a Syrian and Hezbollah invasion to seize the Golan Heights, Ranger sniper Vick Harwood and his spotter go deep undercover. Operating with limited support from the American and Israeli governments, Vick is out on the edge. Alessandra Cavezza, Director of Operations in Syria for the Italian UN Commission for Refugees, is moving families out of an embattled neighborhood. The nearly vacant...
13) Phantom Sun
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (97 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map.
Language
English
Description
After an unknown aircraft crashes in Antarctica near a science facility, Shadow Squadron is deployed to recover the device. But when Russian special forces intervene, Cross gets caught between the mission's objective and the civilian scientists' safety.
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Series
Dead Sea squirrels volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"What do homework, Michael's new favorite video game, and a pair of drones have in common? They're all competing for the gang's attention. Join Michael and ancient squirrels Merle and Pearl for some high-flying adventures as they learn that self-control might save your grades...and your friends" -- Provided by publisher.
15) Alebrijes
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel -- or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them -- the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family"--
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Series
Zapato power volume 9
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Freddie Ramos has shoes that give him super speed, super bounce, and super hearing. His friend Mr. Vaslov invented the shoes. Now Freddie is helping him work on a drone. Freddie's excited until he learns the drone's job is to assist Mr. Vaslov. Is Freddie being replaced by a flying robot? At home, Freddie's mom has a new boyfriend, David. Freddie doesn't know how to feel about David and worries his mom won't have time for him now. How can Zapato Power...
18) Unmanned
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets. As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout-drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up...
19) Dissidence
Author
Series
Corporation wars volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
They've died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for themselves. Sentient machines work, fight and die in interstellar exploration and conflict for the benefit of their owners - the competing mining corporations of Earth. But sent over hundreds of light-years, commands are late to arrive and often hard to enforce. The machines must make their own decisions, and make them stick. With this new found autonomy...
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Series
Tom Swift inventors' academy volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
130 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tom Swift and his friends at the Swift Institute work together to retrieve a drone that was taken by the custodian, Mr. Conway, who they believe is a notorious hacker.