R. C. Bray
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive -- and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though,...
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Candy shop war volume 2
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640L
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Nate and his friends think the new Arcadeland, where tickets can earn jets, tanks, subs, and racecars, is totally cool, until they learn that the arcade owner is hiding a secret.
3) Descent
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2015.
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The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. Caitlin sees the mountains as the ultimate test of her runner's heart, while her parents see hope for their damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the family is suddenly living the kind of nightmare they've only read about in headlines....
4) G-man
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Bob Lee Swagger novel) volume 10
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When Bob Lee Swagger, now in Idaho, finally sells the land he owned in Arkansas, the developers begin to tear down the old homestead and uncover a steel case hidden in the foundation. The case contains a batch of 1934 memorabilia a much-corroded FBI badge, a .45 automatic preserved in cosmoline, a gun clip, and a cryptic diagram, all belonging to Charles Swagger. Bob never knew his grandfather Charles, who died before he was he born, and his father...
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Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 11
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Lance Corporal Thomas McDowell's mother has spent the years since his death in 2003 risking all that she has to find the sniper who pulled the trigger. She comes to Bob Lee Swagger as a last resort. He'll do everything in his power to help her, but what begins as a favor becomes an obsession. Now Swagger is teaming up with the Mossad, the FBI, and local American law enforcement as he tracks a sniper who is his own equal. The ruthless killer seems...
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"In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law amid the investigation of a horrifying human-trafficking ring. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed as the two are caught in the crosshairs of...
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Eric Steele novel volume 1
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[2018]
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"The first in a new military thriller series from the NYT bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon"--
Eric Steele is in an elite clandestine unit known simply as "the Program". Steele is on assignment in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon is stolen. Soon it becomes clear that the perpetrators are from Steele's past and the geopolitical events take a personal turn.
8) The forgers
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"The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will-- a convicted if unrepentant literary forger-- struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters,...
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Sidewinders volume 8
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"When a rival ranch tries to drive the Creel family out of business, Bo and Scratch find themselves in a bloody battle for survival"--
10) Air keep
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(Jeffrey Scott),Farworld volume 3
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680L
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Marcus and Kyja continue to search for the Elementals they need to unite to open a drift between Earth and Farworld, but the Air Elementals have a strange sense of humor and with Farworld in the grip of a terrible drought and daily earthquakes, the two friends face untold challenges.
12) Bear is broken
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Leo Maxwell mystery volume 1
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"Leo Maxwell grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Teddy, a successful yet reviled criminal defense attorney who racked up enemies as quickly as he racked up acquittals. As children, their father was jailed for the murder of their mother, and Teddy was left to care for Leo who tried to emulate his older brother, even following him into the legal profession. The two are at lunch one day when Teddy, supposed to give the closing argument of his...
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Adventurers wanted volume 4
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[2013]
Lexile Measure
810L
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When Alexander Taylor, wizard and warrior, is summoned to the land of Nezza in order to save a friend in need, he finds a country where war is a part of daily life, where adventurers are imprisoned by the Brotherhood, and where all magic is believed to be black.
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Detective Max Rupert volume 2
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"Detective Max Rupert and attorney Boady Sanden's friendship is being pushed to the breaking point. Max is convinced that Jennavieve Pruitt was killed by her husband, Ben. Boady is equally convinced that Ben, his client, is innocent. As the case unfolds, the two are forced to confront their own personal demons. Max is still struggling with the death of his wife four years earlier, and the Pruitt case stirs up old memories. Boady hasn't taken on a...
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"The untold story of Lincoln's assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit"--Amazon.com.
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It was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of twentieth-century warfare. After the war, Sheridan ruthlessly suppressed the raiding Plains Indians much as he had the Confederates, by killing warriors and burning villages, but he also defended reservation...
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Van Shaw novel volume 3
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Searching for a fortune in hidden gold revealed to him by a terminally ill ex-con, Van Shaw is compelled to rescue the man's innocent daughter from a mysterious predator with ties to an illegal bare-knuckle fighting ring and darker underworld operations.
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Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
19) The red eagles
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2015
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World War II is nearly over. For the Russians the enemy is no longer Nazi Germany, but the American behemoth. At the Kremlin, Stalin's top man hatches a plan and five years later an atomic bomb is detonated within the borders of the Soviet Union. The Red Eagles traces the adventures of two spies sent to America to steal the greatest secret of all -- the key to producing the atomic bomb -- while hiding their true intentions from their compatriots.
20) Mercy River
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Helping a fellow veteran accused of murder, Van Shaw is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth involving smuggled opioids, ruthless mercenaries, and deadly family secrets that will challenge his notions of brotherhood and justice --