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261) Gifting fire
Author
Series
Stealing thunder volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
�2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Although at long last Razia Khan has found peace with herself and love with her prince, Arjun, her trials are far from over. In order to save her prince and his city from certain destruction, Razia made a deal with the devil - her father, the Sultan of Nizam. Now the bill has come due. Razia must secure the province of Zindh, a land surrounded by enemies, and loyal to a rebel queen who has survived her father's purge. But when her old tormentor Prince...
262) Year of the reaper
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Teens
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Pacific Islander Authors for Kids and Teens
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Pacific Islander Authors for Kids and Teens
Description
Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer's apprentice on a mission entrusted by the king. But when plague sweeps over the land, leaving countless dead and devastating the kingdom, even Cas' title cannot save him from a rotting prison cell and a merciless sickness. Three years later, Cas wants only to return to his home in the mountains and forget past horrors. But home is not what here members. His castle has become a refuge...
263) Quarry's climax
Author
Series
Publisher
Hardcase Crime
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man - the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax - can keep Climer from becoming...
Author
Series
Agent 10483 volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Agent 10483, a psychopathic former Israeli spy, is busy trying to shut down the spy organization he once worked for and plotting his revenge against the key individuals who he deems responsible for the Organization's betrayal against him. Now, he's traveling the world in a quest to find a hidden nuclear warhead to use against them. Everyone wants to get their hands on Agent 10483 - the two teams from the Organization; twin assassins who are working...
265) The neighborhood
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For most of the citizens of Hidden Refuge, it's an ordinary Friday night in an ordinary American town. But when men claiming to be police officers show up at their doorsteps in the middle of the night, ordering them to evacuate for their own safety, it's only the beginning of a long, dark night that will prove to be anything but ordinary. Because, unbeknownst to most of its residents, Hidden Refuge contains something that very dangerous men want very,...
266) The killing look
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Civil War veteran L.D. Cade arrives in 1870s San Francisco, seeking his fortune and a place to end his restless wandering. A job as bodyguard to a flashy real estate speculator seems like just the opportunity he's been looking for. But beneath the glitter and glamour of Gilded Age San Francisco lie festering greed, corruption, and intolerance. It's a dangerous place for an honest man, even one who's as good with a gun as Cade. As he makes his way...
267) Liars' paradox
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
They live in the shadows, Jack and Jill, feuding twins who can never stop running. From earliest memory they've been taught to hide, to hunt, to survive. Their prowess is outdone only by Clare, who has always been mentor first and mother second. She trained them in the art of espionage, tested their skills in weaponry, surveillance, and sabotage, and sharpened their minds with nerve-wracking psychological games. As they grew older they came to question...
268) Ambush
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Former Royal Marine, ex-cop and sportfishing skipper Steve Flynn finds that his is the last name on a dead man's hitlist in this fast-paced action thriller. A man with too much time on his hands and vengeance on his mind can be extremely dangerous - as Steve Flynn is about to find out. Spending an idyllic summer running pleasure cruises for holidaymakers on the island of Ibiza, Flynn stumbles across a botched armed robbery in progress. He is hardwired...
269) Cold kill
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020,
Language
English
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Description
"Actress Adelaide Banks is swapping her native New York for London to spend Christmas with her widowed Aunt Rose. Rose wrote in her note that she was off to Paris for a few days and would be back in time for Addy's arrival. But when Addy reaches Rose's Knightsbridge address, no one's home, and she has two unexpected callers . . .Where is Rose, and what has she got herself entangled in? Dragged into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse on the snowy streets...
270) The Alpha enigma
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen. But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha herself. She speaks in a strange tongue, and doodles in bars, dots, and little pictures...
Author
Series
Chimera novels (Cate Glass) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Romy and her three partners in crime-a sword master, a silversmith, and her thieving brother-have embraced their roles as the Shadow Lord's agents, using their forbidden magic to accomplish tasks his other spies cannot. Now, the Shadow Lord needs them to infiltrate the home of the Mercediaran Ambassador and prevent him from obtaining information that would lead to all-out war with Cantagna's most dangerous enemy. To succeed, they will have to resurrect...
Author
Series
Black Widow (Margaret Stohl) volume 2
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
The Black Widow and Red Widow have inherited something from their shared past--a need for vengeance against deceased Ivan Somodorov's network of terror.
Graduates of Moscow's famed Red Room spy school are taught to keep their enemies close and their loved ones at a distance. Now Natasha and Ava-- the Black Widow and the Red Widow-- are searching South American in order to extinguish a smuggling operation. The Red Room attempts to assassinate them,...
273) Assassin's fate
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Series
Language
English
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"The stunning conclusion to Robin Hobb's Fitz and the Fool trilogy, which began with Fool's Assassin and Fool's Quest "Every new Robin Hobb novel is a cause for celebration. Along with millions of her other fans, I delight in every visit to the Six Duchies, the Rain Wilds, and the Out Islands, and can't wait to see where she'll take me next."--George R.R. Martin More than twenty years ago, the first epic fantasy novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer...
274) A private cathedral
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Shondell and Balangie families are enemies in New Iberia's criminal underworld, but teen musicians Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie have fallen in love and run away. As Dave Robicheaux investigates the couple's whereabouts, he runs afoul of Isolde's mafioso father, who puts a hit on Robicheaux and his partner, Clete Purcel. The assassin is unlike any they have ever faced: he can induce hallucinations and travels on a ghost ship that materializes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore's brand new detective agency. Until Bald Bernie decides a 'local girl' can't be trusted with private investigations, and replaces her with a new secretary - pretty, privileged, and white. So Su Lin's not the only person finding it hard to mourn Bernie after he's found dead in the filing room. And when her best friend's dad is accused, she gets up to some sleuthing work of her own in a bid to clear...
276) Red right hand
Author
Series
Michael Hendricks novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a federal witness long thought dead is still alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to put him in the ground.
When video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals a Federal witness thought dead is still alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Catherine Ling was abandoned in the streets of Hong Kong at the age of four, and was schooled in the art of survival. As a teenager, she came under the tutelage of the mysterious Hu Chang - a skilled assassin and master poisoner. As a young woman, she was recruited by the CIA and is now one of their most effective operatives. Then her old friend Hu Chang creates something deadly and completely untraceable - and the chase is on to be the first to get...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land in an isolated airbase in the U.K., they are attacked by a hostile force who kidnaps the prisoner. Only Gentry escapes. His...
279) The perfect assassin
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast, a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small. One of those arriving at that beach is a woman abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having escaped,...
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