Paul Michael
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Robert Langdon novels volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
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Again, brilliant Harvard professor Robert Langdon finds himself in a predicament that requires his vast knowledge of symbology and superior problem-solving skills to save the day. The setting, unlike other Robert Langdon novels, is stateside, and in Brown's hands Washington D.C. is as fascinating as Paris or Vatican City (note to the D.C. tourism board: get your "Lost Symbol" tour in order). And, as with other Dan Brown books, the pace is relentless,...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
4) Inferno
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Robert Langdon novels volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
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Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night. Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got there, or the origin of the macabre object that his doctors discover hidden in his belongings. Langdon's world soon erupts into chaos, and he finds himself on the run in Florence with a stoic young woman, Sienna Brooks, whose clever manuevering...
5) Origin
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Robert Langdon novels volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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When the NSA invincible code-breaking machine encounters a code it connot break, the agency calls in head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. Caught in a tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles for her country, her life and the life of the man she loves.
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It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory...
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[2008]
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Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse. Twenty-four hours later, he is the subject of an international manhunt and the target of a master assassin. His only chance at survival lies in uncovering the devastating truth behind the secret...
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Shane Scully novels volume 3
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Overhearing a Hollywood producer make suspicious remarks about the strange deaths of his ex-wives, LAPD officer Shane Scully fears for his wife's best friend, who is engaged to the producer.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 24
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"On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The weird turns that followed in this already sensational tale are truly astonishing--the Hearst family trying to secure Patty's release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free; bank security cameras captured 'Tania'...
11) Ticktock
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After stumbling upon a mysterious rag doll on his doorstep, Tommy Phan finds himself hunted in his own home, as the doll begins to grow into a monster that is determined to kill him.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Blehm presents a deeply personal glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands, fathers, and friends. Adam Brown waged a war against his own worst impulses, persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military, and his final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.
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Robert "Bobby" Astor is a successful New York hedge-fund manager on the cusp of making his biggest, most daring killing ever. But everything changes when his father, the chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a bizarre, mystifying accident on the South Lawn of the White House while en route to delivering a terrifying secret to the president of the United States. In the wake of the incident, Astor sees the business he built start...
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Jonathan Ransom novels volume 2
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[2009]
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Again we meet Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders. The story begins with his arrival in London to deliver an address at a prestigious international medical conference. Ransom quickly finds himself in trouble not of his own making. And, once again, he is forced to maneuver between the good guys and the bad guys in order to figure out just what hes been pulled into, and then make sure that no one else suffers because of...
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World War II novels volume 4
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The United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japanś empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself. Shaara relates the story of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, a young marine and General Mitsura Ushijima,...
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One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most dangerous conspiracy in America- Invasion of Privacy is the riveting, new standalone suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich. On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout....
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Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Paul Janson novels volume 1
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Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak--a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation--has been kidnapped. The terrorist known as The Caliph is holding Novak in a near-impenetrable fortress and has refused to negotiate for his release, planning instead to brutally execute his hostage in a matter of days...Running out of time and hope, Novak's...
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Novels of the Civil War volume 3
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The story of the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the outcome of the war.