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1) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the worlds most sophisticated...
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 11
Description
A mysterious political operative needs the Sisterhood to track down a computer hacker who stole a list of secret fundraisers' names, but the job proves to be more dangerous than they thought.
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 17
Formats
Description
In an attempt to secure the pardon promised to them by the new president, the women of the Sisterhood make plans to evade the Secret Service and infiltrate the White House.
6) Just cause
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Mathew Cowart's newspaper articles sets a death row inmate free, wins him a Pulitzer Prize, and sets off a series of murders.
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 11
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A mysterious political operative needs the Sisterhood to track down a computer hacker who stole a list of secret fundraisers' names, but the job proves to be more dangerous than they thought.
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 17
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened honeymoon, they are hit with some exciting yet unsettling news. It seems their dear ally Lizzie Fox, recently ensconced as Chief White House Counsel, is rumoured to be near the top of the short list for a...
10) Not an easy win
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Nothing has gone right for twelve-year-old year old Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting, he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Caleb no puede evitar preocuparse. La ansiedad hace que su corazón se acelere y que le duela el estómago. ¿Podrá Caleb aprender a calmar sus miedos para salvar sus amigos?
Caleb can't help but worry. His anxiety makes his heart race and his stomach ache. Can Caleb learn to calm his fears in order to save his friends?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called 'butcher of Riga,' Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: 'After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind...