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1) Ninth house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of Shadow and Bone, now a hit NETFLIX series.
The smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
"The best fantasy novel I've read in years, because it's about real people.... Impossible to put down." —Stephen King
"Bardugo's latest
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jane Hawk--who dazzled readers in The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room--faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime in this electrifying new thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz. "I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse than dead." Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography, Phoebe Hall jumps at the chance to teach at a small private college in rural Pennsylvania where she, hoping to get a fresh start, becomes immersed in a deadly mystery involving a mythic secret society known as The Sixes.
Author
Series
Camel club volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having assassinated the two men who had been inhibiting his freedom, John Carr becomes the target of a manhunt involving the highest levels of the U.S. government, prompting Joe Knox to launch an investigation that tests the resources of the Camel Club.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing a shocking murder, the four remaining members of a secret organization that simply seeks to find the "truth" behind the nation's actions are thrown into a plot threatening the security of the U.S., and they team with a veteran Secret Service agent to stand down a threatening Armageddon.
7) The maidens
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements "Michaelides as a major player in the field" (Publishers Weekly). Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At thirty-nine, Type-A Nicole Muller's life is on the rocks. Her once brilliant law career is falling apart. Her friends are all having their last-minute babies before they turn forty and she remains childless. She loves her husband, Daniel, but they're soon to be forced out of the family apartment they've rented for years. Shortly after a warning from her senior partners, she's shocked when she receives an email from an exclusive women's networking...
10) The devil colony
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
Author
Series
[A tale of magic volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen has secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community but new threats arise, including the centuries-old Righteous Brotherhood that intends to exterminate all magical life, beginning with Brystal.
12) The Young Elites
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scarred and cast out after surviving the blood plague, Adelina finds a place for herself among the Young Elites who use their magic to advocate on behalf of young innocents and who are targeted by the soldiers of the Inquisition Axis.
Author
Series
Rogues and remarkable women volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
When West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune and her freedom. Then The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. A wounded military hero, Busick is determined to resolve his dead cousin's dangerous financial dealings for Lionel's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
Seiten
Language
English
Description
"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups...
Author
Series
Langdon volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
16) Faceless
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in 1943 war-torn England, thirteen-year-old Alice and her older sister Louise are members of a centuries-old spy clan, but when Louise decides to spy for the enemy, their bond is changed forever.
17) Wanted
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen [ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing - that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...
Author
Series
Copernicus legacy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"It's been two months since the Kaplan family hunted down the Serpens relic, but when the evil Galina Krause suddenly and violently reappears, Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca have no choice but to face her again. Now they must race to find an artifact said to be crafted by Leonardo da Vinci himself--perhaps the strangest Guardian of all. Along the way, they uncover another layer to Galina's sinister endgame . . . and there might not be enough time...
19) Alexander's army
Author
Series
UNICORNE files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Michael Malone is assigned to investigate a local comic shop by the mysterious UNICORNE agency because they are displaying a comic book with a disturbingly familiar heroine--but he soon realizes that the sinister shop hides an invisible army come to life, with a menacing maniac at it's head, and worse he does not know if he can trust his fellow agents.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Michael Malone saves a dog, he discovers that he has paranormal abilities, which bring him to the attention of a secret organization, UNICORNE--but he plans to use the ability to find out what happened to his father, who mysteriously vanished three years earlier, and save his new friend, Freya.