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61) The Forgetting
Author
Series
The Forgetting (Sharon Cameron) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
62) The Knowing
Author
Series
The Forgetting (Sharon Cameron) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The underground city of New Canaan is safe from the Forgetting which afflicts Canaan above ground, but in her rigidly controlled and repressive city eighteen-year-old Samara, one of the Knowing, is plagued by her memory of the horrors she has seen, and determined to seek answers in the cursed city above--where she will find Beckett Rodriguez and his parents, on a mission from Earth to study the lost colony.
Author
Series
Malabar house volume 3
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun in 1950, Inspector Persis Wadia and Metropolitan Police criminalist Archie Blackfinch arrive in Bombay to investigate, uncovering a trail leading directly into the heart of a dark conspiracy.
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery in which a former CIA officer in his early sixties is asked to travel undercover to Moscow to locate a Russian assassin only to find things are not as he was led to believe".
65) The short drop
Author
Series
Gibson Vaughn novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard-then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency-disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession.
66) Dead lions
Author
Series
Slough House volume 2
Language
English
Description
London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle--not unusual in this line of work. But they have one thing in common: they all want to be back in the action. And they'll do anything to...
67) Moongarden
Author
Series
Plotting the stars volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
Ages 10+
Author
Series
Traitor's game volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After three years in exile Kestra Dallisor has been summoned back to Antora by her father, right-hand man of the seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick, but she is intercepted and kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to get the Olden Blade, which they believe can be used to kill the despot--Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors, is assigned to accompany her, but Kestra has her own plans and she does not intend to...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An American forensic sculptor, reconstructing the faces of three victims, receives a midnight visit from a man who threatens her life unless she alters the faces she's almost completed. An accent coach unravels the mystery of the Assistant Minister of Propaganda in VIenna during World War II. When bodies start turning up under the former Propaganda Offices, some date from the war period--but othera are much older, dating back to the Ottoman siege...
70) The collectors
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2018?], c2006
Edition
1st U.S. pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
When Camel Club member Caleb Shaw nearly falls victim to one of a series of mysterious deaths targeting the elite of Washington, D.C., the members of the Camel Club attempt to unravel a secret conspiracy that threatens all of America.
71) Simple genius
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First trade edition.
Language
English
Description
Checking into a psychiatric institution, former Secret Service agent Michelle Maxwell is worriedly monitored by partner Sean King, who distracts himself with a murder investigation at a genius enclave where a sophisticated microprocessor is being developed.
Author
Language
English
Description
London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later?and only a block away?Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassin?s target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? And who is the shadowy figure witnesses describe as having lifeless, coal-black eyes?...
Author
Series
Zig and Nola novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of...
Author
Series
Munchem Academy volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Mattie Larimore is sent to reform school he uncovers a creepy conspiracy, led by Headmaster Rooney, to fix all the problem children, including Mattie's brother--for good.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Changing her name and appearance to flee town after leaving her husband dead, Tanya Dubois forges an uneasy alliance off the grid at the side of a female bartender with whom she races from city to city to escape her past.
77) The hit
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
CIA assassin Will Robie must bring in rogue agent Jessica Reel -- dead or alive. But as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an encoded diary about Ludwig, the fairytale king of Bavaria who was declared insane and died mysteriously soon thereafter, falls into his hands, rare book dealer Steven Lukas is forced to go on the run as he becomes the target of Ludwig's deranged modern-day followers.
80) Nemesis
Author
Series
Project Nemesis volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, Idaho.
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