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Alex Cross novels volume 13
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex...
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Alex Cross novels volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. The Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the...
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Alex Cross novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers. Alex Cross is plunged into a case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the best weapons and training the world can offer.
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Alex Cross novels volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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A child killer is stalking the inner city of Washington, D.C., his latest victim Shanelle Green, an adorable first grader from Sojourner Truth School. This killing is especially unsettling to Detective Alex Cross. Sojourner Truth is the school his son Damon attends, just four blocks from his home. While the death of an inner-city black child doesn't garner much media attention, another murder is making big headlines. The same day that Shanelle was...
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2018.
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When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper asking for all those interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to contact a P.O. box, Detective Stallworth does his job and responds with interest, using his real name while posing as a white man. He figures hell receive a few brochures in the mail, maybe even a magazine, and learn more about...
8) Cat & mouse
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Alex Cross novels volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Now comes the ultimate case of Cross's career. In Cat & Mouse, things get too close to home. Two killers, one operating in America-one in Europe-believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned.
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Alex Cross novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Facing a particularly vicious killer in his latest investigation, Alex Cross finds his family targeted by the vengeful Mastermind, a situation complicated by tension in his relationship with his girlfriend and his daughter's unexplained seizures.
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Highway 59 volume 1
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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
11) Cross kill
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Alex Cross watched a man die at the hands of an old enemy. . . and he's back from the grave for revenge.
Alex Cross, I'm coming for you-even from the grave if I have to.
Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister?
Nothing will prepare you for the wicked...
Alex Cross, I'm coming for you-even from the grave if I have to.
Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister?
Nothing will prepare you for the wicked...
12) Keep still
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1996
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"When an old woman dies after falling down her basement stairs, the coroner proves she was pushed, and suspicion centers on her two grown sons. A few days later, another woman is found dead in a motel pool. Although her death doesn't have the marks of a random murder, Marti and her partner, Jessenovik, have little to work with: the woman, a former teacher, left few possessions and no family behind."--BOOK JACKET. "Through careful digging and help...
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Alex Cross novels volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Detective Alex Cross pursues the most ruthless killer he's ever encountered--to a land of sheer terror and back. It's the worst crime scene Alex Cross has ever seen, and then more killings, each one more ruthless than the last, quickly follow. After one death comes terrifyingly close to home, Alex realizes he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. Digging deeper into the case, Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, uncover a shocking...
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 8
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[2000]
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"Life is finally going smoothly for Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, police detective Marti MacAlister. She's happily married to Ben, and they and their children are at last coming together as a family. But when an arsonist starts targeting vacant houses and detonating bombs in their sleepy Chicago suburb, Marti's personal life is put aside as she and her partner, Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik, investigate this string of troublesome events." "Early on, as Marti...
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2001.
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"Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, homicide detective Marti MacAlister, and her partner, Matthew Jessenovik, are assigned a most unusual case - all that's left of the unfortunate murder victim is an arm. Their investigation into this murder and dismemberment leads them into the exclusive and secretive history of the artistic community in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois." "Meanwhile, Marti's troubled best friend, Sharon, is slowly...
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Alex Cross novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggest a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider. someone believes in vampires enough to have committed a series of bizarre murders that appear to be the work of one. Local police are horrified, and even the FBI is baffled.
17) Kiss the girls
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Alex Cross novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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As two serial killers terrorize different regions of America, the FBI begins to suspect that the two are competing with each other, and Washington, D.C. police detective Alex Cross embarks on a personal quest to find the perpetrators.
18) Blackkklansman
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[2018]
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Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
19) The black and the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement
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2018.
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Matthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service when Horace found himself face-down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews...
20) Heaven, my home
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Highway 59 volume 2
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The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing--but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.