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An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
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Cotton Malone novels volume 7
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Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has hunted priceless treasures and confronted ruthless adversaries around the world. Now, a grave threat to the very foundation of our country has summoned him home to America.
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2014.
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The killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded but by no means dead. Two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States. Jake Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague, Afghan war hero Captain Sara Gideon. The Chechens do not survive the night, but Dillon is curious as to how...
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2021.
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"In the years since this publishing house was founded, we have worked with an array of wondrous authors who have brought illuminating clarity to our bewildering world. Now, instead, we bring you Lemony Snicket. Over the course of his long and suspicious career, Mr. Snicket has investigated many things, including villainy, treachery, conspiracy, ennui, and various suspicious fires. In this book, he is investigating his own death. Poison for Breakfast...
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"Miss Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. Known for her ability to puzzle out plots, she prefers working behind the scenes for the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, staying well away from danger. However, Daphne soon finds herself in the thick of an attempted murder case she's determined to solve.Mr. Herman Henderson is also a mystery writer, but unlike the dashing heroes he pens, he lives a quiet life, determined to avoid...
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The Jackal. A killer at the top of his profession, unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes, who with a rifle can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. It seems there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal, and time is counting down to the final act of...
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 9
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[2001]
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Blake Johnson, head of a clandestine White House operation, and his Irish colleague Sean Dillon work together to stop a murderous vendetta aimed at the president of the United States, who is blamed for a series of attacks on a ruthless Arab-British dynasty.
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 3
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[2002]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
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In the 1980's before he was President or CIA head, even before a submarine named Red October made its way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was a historian, teacher, and ex-Marine temporarily living in England. He was brought to the attention of the CIA's deputy director and the British SIS and became a freelance analyst in a high stakes game meant to shake the world.
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Honor bound volume 5
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[2009]
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August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now - standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in the middle of a miserably hot and remote Mississippi prisoner-of-war camp. Frade's job? Typical OSS: to help the uncooperative Frogger escape. Frogger's parents are in Frade's custody...
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Kane and Abel series volume 3
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Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer keeps the pace sizzling in this final installment in the Kane and Abel trilogy, Shall We Tell the President?, a daring political thriller where treason and betrayal threaten to topple an American dynasty.
After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful
12) Shooter
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An expert marksman is framed for the attempted assassination of the President. Now he must go on the run to find who set him up to take the fall.
"...enjoyable..."--New York Times
"The paranoia is as thick and luscious as that Reddi-wip, and it's served from both left and right."--New York Post
"...executed with such efficiency and energy..."--Los Angeles Times
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Five broken blades volume 1
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2024.
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"The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon. He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined…or sold. And now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness―from the hired hitman seeking atonement, a lovely assassin who...
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Princess diaries volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
15) Double take
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Lake City heroes volume 1
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"She survived a murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? Detective James Cross has been honorably discharged from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division due to wounds sustained when an IED blew up near him. Now with the Lake City Police Department, he's rooming with his good buddy and partner, Cole, while he figures out his family dynamics. Physician Assistant Lainie Jackson is eighteen months out from an attempted murder perpetrated by...
16) The saboteurs
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Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda--one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the...
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"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
18) Killer weekend
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"Eight years ago, in Sun Valley - snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious - all that stood between New York State attorney general Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Liz Shaler returns to Sun Valley as the crown jewel and keynote speaker for billionaire Patrick Cutter's world-famous C3, a media and communications conference where the richest, most powerful business tycoons converge. The attorney...
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Emily Wilde volume 2
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[2024]
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"Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world's first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She's learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures... and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wendell Bambleby. Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He's an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother and in search of a door back to his realm. And despite Emily's feelings...
20) The island
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"America is about to face the deadliest terrorist attack on it's soil since 9/11. Iran has been planning a revenge attack for years, with three goals in mind. Bring America to its knees. Assassinate the popular U.S. President J.P. Dellenbaugh. And neutralize their most successful agent, Dewey Andreas. The first pre-emptive attack against Dewey Andreas fails but it worries the head of the CIA enough that he sends Dewey out of town and off the grid....