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1) Bare bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
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It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. And what...
2) Artemis
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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"Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling...
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James Bond series volume 4
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Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was first published in 1956. The story centres on Bond's investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way...
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Phil Broker novels volume 5
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Phil Broker's latest adventure hits close to home, when he finds his estranged wife and daughter caught in a web of deception that may conceal a terrorist plot to bomb Minneapolis's nuclear power plant
When Phil Broker's estranged wife, Nina, and his daughter, Kit, disappeared months ago, he wasn't surprised. Nina has a mysterious and dangerous job working for the government, and her work has taken her in harm's way before. Broker sets out on a...
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
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Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.
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A taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the post-apartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship, The Good Doctor is an extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit. The Good Doctor has inspired enthusiastic interest around the world, with rights already sold in eleven countries, and assures Damon Galgut's place as a major international talent. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital,...
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 11
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Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a fifty-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayor's long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make...
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To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.
9) All I want
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When her brother's friend, Parker, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent, hires her to fly him around Sunshine, Idaho, so that he can collect evidence on a suspected smuggler, pilot Zoe Stone finds the situation getting too hot to handle, even as danger surrounds them.
10) Point of entry
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With calculated cunning, renegade Syrian intelligence operatives have discovered how to smuggle uranium-235-the key material required to manufacture an atomic weapon-into the United States undetected, exploiting a network of the most experienced and sophisticated smugglers the world has ever known.
As the CIA repeatedly misinterprets numerous intelligence warnings, only Marta Pradilla-Colombia's beautiful, hard-minded new president-can assist the...
11) Rapscallion
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Matthew Hawkwood novels volume 3
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Matthew Hawkwood goes undercover on a former warship being used as a prison, where rumors have spread that the ship is being used in sinister smuggling operations.
12) Devil in tartan
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Lottie Livingstone bears the weight of an island on her shoulders. Under threat of losing their home, she and her clan take to the seas to sell a shipload of illegal whiskey. When an attack leaves them vulnerable, she transforms from a maiden daughter to a clever warrior. For survival, she orchestrates the siege of a rivals ship and now holds the devilish Scottish captain Aulay Mackenzie under her command. Tied, captive and forced to watch a stunning...
13) Camp alien
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Alien agent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Young alien agent Zack, surly Galactic Patrol Cadet Vraj, and shy human camper Opal team up to find some Duthwi eggs before they hatch and cause a planetwide disaster, while the Gnairt who were smuggling the eggs try to retrieve them.
14) Runner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
16) Wrecker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.
17) Total immunity
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L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller…
Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But, they've met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. Coming from a man who's about to go to prison, it sounds like an empty threat. Then, one by one, they start to die.
Knowing...
18) The smugglers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.
19) Trackers
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When he agrees to help smuggle a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe, freelance bodyguard Lemmer experiences unexpected complications in the form of a fledgling private investigator and a journalist who recently left her abusive family.
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Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family and friends;...