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361) Flash point
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Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 16
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Jack Ryan Jr. is in a world of trouble. When a benign surveillance operation takes a deadly turn, Jack finds himself locked in a struggle with an unseen enemy bent on destroying the Campus. The chase leads Jack to the South China Sea where a midair collision between aircraft from rival nations threatens to serve as a flash point for the entire region. As Jack frantically tries to put the pieces of the conspiracy together, the Campus is hit with...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
363) Code name Bananas
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"1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside, they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot..."--Page [2] of cover....
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Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.
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Magic tree house volume 39
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"
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Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2024.
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In the summer of 1914, Isaac Bell attends a private meeting on Woodrow Wilson's presidential yacht, as Wilson addresses the newly launched regional Federal Reserve banks. Bell is present as a security agent with his father, who will be the head banker of the Boston region. Just after Wilson introduces a plan for new currency notes, the yacht comes under attack from a bi-wing airplane. Bell shoots down the plane with a machine gun and saves everyone...
367) Call of duty
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 21
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"When the launch of [a] powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested--unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-Center's Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo reconnaissance mission, but when she sees an opportunity to free...
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"Tiger Lily and her community, the Indigenous people of Neverland, possess a unique ability: they can choose to grow up. But for now, Tiger Lily is enjoying being thirteen, spending time with her grandmother and exploring alongside her horse and her friends. Then Tiger Lily uncovers a plot by two of Captain Hook's pirates, who are searching for a mysterious, powerful treasure. Determined to protect Neverland, Tiger Lily sets out on a very grown-up...
369) Curtain of death
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Clandestine operations novel volume 3
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January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded. The incident, however, will send shock waves rippling...
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"Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancě, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike...
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Jack Ryan novel volume 22
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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"In 1985 an F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It's a job Deputy Director...
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From its opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Battle of the Marne in 1918, and on to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign of the Hole in the Wall Gang, House of the Rising Sun is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son.
After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes...
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Black clover volume 27
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Asta will need to get much more powerful if he ever hopes to defeat the demonic leaders of the Spade Kingdom. Things look bleak, but then a mysterious mage named Nacht appears--and he knows a few things about harnessing a devil's power. Does Asta have what it takes to learn how to control his own devil powers and rescue Captain Yami?"--Back cover.
376) Huck out west
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape 'sivilization' and 'light out for the Territory.' In Robert Coover's [book], also 'wrote by Huck,' the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war ... This period, from the middle of the Civil War to the centennial year of 1876, is probably the most formative era...
377) Mouse house hunter
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Geronimo Stilton volume 61
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Sally Ratmousen broke some shocking news: The Rodent's Gazette was out of money and in danger of closing. Then Grandfather William broke even worse news to me: I needed to sell my comfy, cozy house in order to save our paper! How terrible! But could I sell it -- and find a new home -- in time to help?
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Teddy Fay volume 5
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue . . . and that the biggest players behind the scenes may be far closer to home than anticipated. With international deals and...
379) The devil's ransom
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Pike Logan thriller volume 17
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"Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on the run. One that has done more for the United States in Afghanistan than anyone else. Pulled in to extract him, Pike collides headlong into a broader mystery: His covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, has been hit with a ransomware attack, and there's some connection between the Taliban and...
380) The Collector
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Gabriel Allon volume 23
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"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West"--
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