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1) Forced out
Author
Language
English
Description
Spotting a remarkable minor-league ballplayer, unhappily retired Yankees scout Jack Barrett hopes to bring the young athlete into the big leagues, an effort that is challenged by the boy's bad attitude and a dangerous secret.
2) Camino winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
3) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone-cold hit man who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and the last--mistake of his career ... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target, but something about this mission doesn't seem right, and he does the...
Author
Series
Finlay Donovan volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From USA Today bestseller and Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun--the hilarious and heart-pounding next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. Dating. Diapers. And dodging bullets. Who said single moms can't have fun? Finlay Donovan has been in messes before--after all, she's an author and single mom who's a pro at getting out bloodstains for rather unexpected reasons--but none quite like this. After...
5) The good guy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
6) Silence
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Six years after helping Wendy Harper disappear, her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is framed for her presumed murder in order to make her return, and Jack Till must find her before assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner can ensure Wendy's permanent silence.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas is a city of contradictions. Seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds -- especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides -- and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where...
Author
Language
English
Description
Seven years after the death of his father, a covert agent who supposedly committed suicide to avoid prosecution, Frank Temple is confronted by the past in the person of Devin Matteson, the old friend and associate who had betrayed his father, as well as a web of family secrets, mob assassins, and his father's shadowy legacy.
10) The gun seller
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A spoof on the thriller genre starring Thomas Lang, an ex-Scots Guards officer who is offered $100,000 to assassinate an industrialist. Lang, an honorable man, rejects the offer and warns the victim, only to discover the victim was the one who put out the contract. From there, laughs and thrills. By a British actor and comedy writer, star of Jeeves and Wooster.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
SPL Book Club
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Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles,...
18) Shot
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Investigating suspicious events surrounding her husband's untimely death, Lucy Green stumbles on a dangerous government conspiracy and finds herself racing for her life across the western landscape with a discredited journalist.
19) Bait
Author
Language
English
Description
Narrowly escaping an attempt on her life while on a business trip in New Orleans, attorney Maddie Fitzgerald is unnerved by attractive FBI agent Sam McCabe, who reveals that Maddie is being targeted by an elusive hired killer.
20) A wanted woman
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"She is a woman of a thousand faces, an assassin who could be anyone, anywhere. The Trinidad contract was supposed to be simple: to make a living man become a dead man. When the job goes bad under the watchful eye of a bank security camera, there is nowhere for agent MX-401, known as Reaper, to hide from the fearsome local warlords, the Laventille Killers. Her employers, the Barbarians, send her to Barbados, the next island over, barely two hundred...