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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
"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...
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In this ninth outing for her popular series heroine, Dana Stabenow adds depth, texture, and vulnerability to Kate's inner life; reveals new aspects of Jim Chopin's character; and introduces Alice's daughter Stephanie, with whom Kate forges a bond of love and obligation that promises the youngster an ongoing role in future Kate Shugak's adventures. An expertly paced and plotted thriller with moody, moving undertones, Midnight Come Again will please...
3) Inca gold
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
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An action-filled chase through the Amazon jungle for 16th Century Spanish treasure. Joining in the pursuit are Dirk Pitt, the hero, his congresswoman girlfriend, the FBI, the Customs Service, archaeologists, a tribe of local Indians, smugglers and various thieves. There's plenty of treasure for everyone, the gold requiring 200 men just to lift
5) Shell Games
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John Marquez crime novels volume 1
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Involved in an investigation into an abalone poaching operation that leads to murder, Lieutenant John Marquez discovers that his own life is in danger from Kline, a vicious drug smuggler and abalone poacher with a grudge against Marquez.
6) Bare Bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
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With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet. As fans of this popular series already know, Tempe is a forensic anthropologist: an expert in the human form (especially bones) who helps solve crimes. The abovementioned infant is only the first in a series of grisly remains, both human and animal, that Tempe must sort through and decode. Meanwhile,...
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On a cold, miserable night in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn't feel so unusual if it wasn't the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. When Alex McKnight helps rescue the passengers, he finds three men. The driver is out cold, the other two are dazed but conscious. When they're all finally back on dry land and sent away in an ambulance, Alex...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
9) 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.
10) Virtues of war
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Virtues of War volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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Lieutenant Katja Emmes is assigned to the fast-attack craft Rapier, joining a mission to investigate weapons smuggling activity between the Terran colonies of Sirius and Centauria. If true, this act of rebellion could escalate rapidly, and lead to all-out war.
11) Contraband
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Stone Barrington novels volume 50
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"Stone Barrington is getting some much-needed rest and relaxation in the Florida sun when trouble falls from the sky--literally. Intrigued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding this event, Stone joins forces with a sharp-witted and alluring local detective to investigate. But they run into a problem: the evidence keeps disappearing. From the laid-back Key West shores to the bustling Manhattan streets, Stone sets out to connect the dots between...
12) Jamaica Inn
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High-spirited Mary Yellan was too young to suspect the truth about her new home on the moor. Yet she began to wonder why no one came to Jamaica Inn and why her aunt was so frightened.
15) Wrecker
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
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Dirk Pitt faces the most formidable foe of his career when he encounters billionaire shipping magnate Qin Shang who is obsessed with salvaging the Princess Dou Wan, a ship reportedly loaded with Chinese art treasures--including the bones of Peking Man.
17) The smugglers
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[1999]
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.
18) Trace of fever
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[2011]
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When Trace Rivers teams up with Priscilla Patterson to ruin corrupt businessman Murray Coburn, they must fight their attraction--for one wrong move, one lingering embrace, will expose them to the wrath of a merciless opponent.
19) Cry no more
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2003.
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Milla Edge runs an organization called Finders, devoted to locating and recovering missing children. Finders gets most of its funding from businessman True Gallagher, and much of its information on child-snatching rings from a mercenary named Diaz. Both men have ulterior motives for helping Milla, and hope to achieve their secret goals by offering Milla what she wants above all else: the return of her own kidnapped son, Justin.
20) After the rain
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Phil Broker novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2004]
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Phil Broker travels to Landgon, North Dakota, to assist his estranged Delta Force operator wife and daughter only to learn that his wife is running a smugling operation with links to terrorism.
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