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Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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Market of monsters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she's sold on the black market in his place.
3) Raylan
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 3
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With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that's chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you - especially when it's sold off piece by piece. So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it's up to U.S. Marshal...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
6) The kingdom
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Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, not people; but a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea. An investigator friend of the Fargos was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father, and now the investigator is missing too. On a journey that takes them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan...
7) Copper Beach
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Dark legacy volume 1
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Within the pages of very rare books, some centuries old, lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes -- and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessibve collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market. A number of ruthless people...
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It's December 2012--only days away from the day the Mayan's believed the world would be destroyed, when Dr. Gabriel Stanton is called to the bedside of a man suffering from fatal insomnia. Meanwhile, a young Guatemalan-American scholar is given a priceless codex from the lost kingdom of the Maya. Little does he know it's linked to the dying man and the key to stopping the end of the world.
Pub. Date
2022
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Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
10) Relics
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There's an underground black market for arcane things: remains of gryphons, faeries, goblins, and other fantastic creatures. When Angela Gough's fiancé Vince goes missing, she discovers that he was a part of this secretive trade. It's a big-money business, shadowy, brutal, and sometimes fatal. As the trail leads deeper into London's dark side, Angela crosses paths with a crime lord whose life is dedicated to collecting such relics... and some of...
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Series
The relics trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Angela Gough has been pulled into this world, making her a criminal on the run. In London she encountered the Kin--satyrs and centaurs, Nephilim and wraiths, they are hunted and slaughtered for their body parts. Fleeing back to the United States, Angela discovers that the Kin are everywhere, and they are tired of being prey. When her niece Sammi is struck by lightning, she is drawn toward the mysterious Folded Land, and its powerful and deadly ruler....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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"For more than one hundred years the West has failed to understand Islam" (U.S. State Department Official, 1992). This quote from the original edition of Riders of the Pale Horse introduces the story of two young Americans, a foreign-service officer and a mission volunteer who cross paths near the Afghanistan border on very different assignments and yet with a common goal: to stop nuclear materials from falling into terrorists' hands. High-stakes...
14) A distant heart
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
15) Pinnacle event
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...
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Series
Market of monsters volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
With her best friend, Kovit's, life in danger, Nita is determined to take down the black market once and for all.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
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Series
Market of monsters volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
With her self-healing ability widely known, Nita's only chance for survival is to become too feared to be targeted again, starting with killing her betrayer, Fabricio.
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