Nayeri, Daniel
Summary: "This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams." The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir--furious enough to hire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction NayeriTakahiro
Summary: "Before becoming Night Raid's deadliest ally, Akame was a young girl bought by the Empire and raised as an assassin whose sole purpose was to slaughter everything in her path. Because that's what makes people happy--right? Discover Akame's shocking past in ... the prequel to the ... series Akame ga kill"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKAWesterfeld, Scott
Summary: In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WESQuirk, Matthew
Summary: "Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this electrifying tale from the author of The Night Agent-a propulsive political thriller reminiscent of the best early Baldacci and Grisham novels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUIBurton, Gabi
Summary: "Saoirse Sorkova survives on lies. As a soldier-in-training at the most prestigious barracks in the kingdom, she lies about being a siren to avoid execution. At night, working as an assassin for a dangerous group of mercenaries, Saoirse lies about her true identity. And to her family, Saoirse tells the biggest lie of all: that she can control her siren powers and doesn't struggle constantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BURKirby, Matthew J.
Summary: Over a thousand years earlier, Styrbjorn the Strong, a Danish warrior, leads the Jomsvikings against the Danish king, Harald Bluetooth. It is on those Viking battlefields that the secrets of the devotion prong lie. It is there that the fate of the world, the truth behind the teens' collective unconsciousness, and their ancestral links to one another lie. History has already been written. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KIRRovin, Jeff
Summary: "As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROVCarr, Jack
Summary: "Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets--a man intent on killing her. A traitorous CIA officer has found refuge with the Russian mafia with designs on ensuring a certain former Navy SEAL sniper is put in the ground. Half a world away, James Reece is recovering from brain surgery in the Montana wilderness, slowly putting his life back together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2020
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Summary: "Betrayed by his own country and tried for treason, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. Exonerated, bitter, and safe, the retired family man is through with duplicitous spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison. If it's Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can't leave her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DUGHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: A prequel to "Casino Royale" follows the mysterious demise of Agent 007 in the French Riviera underworld and the emergence of new agent, James Bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORKirby, Matthew J.
Summary: Nothing in Owen's life has been right since his father died in prison, accused of a crime Owen is certain he didn't commit. Monroe, the IT guy at school, might finally bring Owen the means to clear his father's name by letting him use an Animus--a device that allows users to explore the genetic memories buried within their own DNA. The experience brings Owen more than he bargained for. During a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: PA FIC KIRSutherland, Tui
Summary: "Fiercetooth, a NightWing obsessed with what could have -- and should have -- been. Deathbringer, desperate to prove himself as the next great NightWing assassin. Six-Claws, a loyal SandWing, who will soon find that loyalty comes with a price. Foeslayer the NightWing, a dragon in love turned kidnapper, and Prince Arctic of the IceWings, a runaway turned captive. In these four short stories, dig...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUTTruhen, Aidan
Summary: "In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him. All is good in the life of Jack Price. His drug operation is the Amazon of cocaine trafficking, and no one can breach his complex security system. But then: his downstairs neighbor is professionally executed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUHart, Rob
Summary: "Mark was the most dangerous killer-for-hire in the world. But after learning the hard way that his life's work made him more monster than man, he left all of that behind, and joined a twelve-step group for reformed killers. When Mark is viciously attacked by an unknown assailant, he is forced on the run. From New York to Singapore to London, he chases after clues while dodging attacks and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARDickey, Eric Jerome
Summary: "A professional job turns personal for jet-setting contract killer Gideon in this sexy, thrilling page-turner by New York Timesbestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first time, the job is taking its toll. Neither Gideon nor the city of Buenos Aires has recovered from the mayhem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DICBentley, Don
Summary: "The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he'll be damned if he's going to let the hitters escape justice. He's got just one lead--a meeting the victim was going to. When Jack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENBlack, Cara
Summary: "October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLACarcaterra, Lorenzo
Summary: "As Nonna Maria's longtime friend and sometimes colleague, Captain Murino of the Ischian caribineri, never wanted to see harm brought to the doorstep of everyone's favorite espresso-brewing, counseling-giving amateur sleuth. But when you live a long life, you're bound to make a few enemies. And when those enemies come calling, you have to rely on friends. Faced with an assassin seeking revenge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHood, Joshua
Summary: A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOKirby, Matthew J.
Summary: "The end is just the beginning ... Owen and his friends have lost. They managed to do something incredible, but were defeated nonetheless. When they located the first piece of an ancient and powerful relic long considered a legend -- the Trident of Eden -- it seemed little could stop them. This piece was was sought by the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Templar Order, but before either...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KIRLustbader, Eric
Summary: "Evan Ryder is a lone wolf, a field agent for a black-ops arm of the DOD, who has survived unspeakable tragedy and dedicated her life to protecting her country. When her fellow agents begin to be systematically eliminated, Evan must unravel the thread that ties them all together ... and before her name comes up on the kill list. The list belongs to a mysterious cabal known only as Nemesis, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lustbader 2020Woods, Stuart
Summary: Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in NYC, but he is asked to transport top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off, unaware of what he is bringing with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOChang, Molly X.
Summary: "Ruying, born with the power over death, must weigh if her family's life is worth betraying her country to strike a deal with an enemy prince. Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen. Blessed by Death,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADu Brul, Jack B.
Summary: 1914: As America's century of dominance dawns, the country's greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his assassin accomplice. They're plotting to pull off the greatest heist in America's history: the theft of a billion dollars from the newly created Federal Reserve. When an aerial attack is launched against Woodrow Wilson's yacht during a meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2024