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1) Hit man
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John Keller novels volume 1
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Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment. Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country...and kills somebody. It's a living. But is it a life? Keller's not sure. He goes to a shrink, but it doesn't work out the way he planned. He gets a dog, he gets a girlfriend. He gets along.
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Three divorced friends-and one killer-set out to sea in the New York Times–bestselling author's hilarious cruise-ship murder mystery. Three best friends are on a Caribbean cruise for their latest vacation together. But the trip could be their last-unless they sort out which of the passengers is Mr. Right and which is the hit man hired by one of their ex-husbands... Feisty, fast-talking P.R. executive Elaine Zimmerman needs some persuading by her...
3) The hunted
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OPSIG Team Black volume 1
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How well do you really know the person you love? How far would you go to find out? If there were one person in the world Dr. Lauren Chambers was sure she could rely on, it was her beloved husband, Michael. Recovering from an agoraphobic depression and prone to episodes of blinding anxiety, Lauren is a gifted psychologist for whom her husband's love and support mean everything. So when Michael suddenly and mysteriously vanishes, Lauren once again...
4) The Reapers
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Private detective Charlie Parker returns in this story of assassins who have targeted one of their own.
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Alien huntress volume 2
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Eden Black walks among humans, protecting them from the murderous evil of other-worlders who abduct and enslave. And though she appears to be human herself, Eden is an alien, a Raka, distinguished by her golden hair and skin, and gifted with the ominous ability to kill without remorse -- and with total accuracy. That is, until the fateful night she has one shot to eliminate her target, a human slaver -- and misses.
"Failure" is not in Eden's vocabulary....
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The halfling saga volume 2
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"Keera navigates political scheming, backstabbing, and her own grief as she moves against the cruel king that holds her kingdom hostage"--
"The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off... To the kingdom, Keera is the king's Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow-the dark, brooding...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers he was also involved in a murder plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. She disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to take it one step further: kill the queen herself. She is cast in William Shakespeare's newest play, which is to be performed in front of Her Majesty. But the play is a plot to destroy the rebellion, masterminded by fellow...
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House of Marionne volume 1
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2023.
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Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
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"Reign Grazi is no stranger to dangerous men. Her whole life, they've been there: grandfathers, uncles, cousins. She knows the difference between the people who make the rules and those who break them. But she has no idea why someone might want her dead. Nick Fattelli is handsome, sophisticated, and an assassin. He doesn't know who hired him to take out Reign, but once they meet and sparks fly, he vows to protect her. Unless he's the real target ..."...
11) Fixit
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2023.
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"Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, together again, must track scant clues through L.A.'s perilous landscape as Grace's predicament grows more uncertain. A complication arises in the form of Winnie Hando,...
12) I am the traitor
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Unknown assassin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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After breaking free of The Program, Boy Nobody is on a mission of his own to reclaim his life and rescue his friend Howard from the secret organization that has turned him and other orphaned children into trained assassins--but he has no idea who, if anyone, he can trust, or what the consequences will be if he succeeds in bringing down The Program.
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"Four years ago, former US Marshal Jackson Dean left his job after falling for a witness--who's suddenly the target of an assassin. Now it's up to Jackson and his K-9 partner to protect single mom Everly Lopez and her young daughter when Everly's identity is blown. But with hired killers looking for a payday, Jackson must use all his resources to stop them from silencing Everly permanently."--Page 4 of cover.
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Lord Ermenwyr volume 3
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Sharp-eyed orphan Eliss and her half-brother make a new home on a river barge and clash with a teen assassin amid an escalating series of pirate attacks on riverside cities.
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With her face splashed across the news after she saves a little boy, Natasha Hale's witness protection cover is blown. Now caught in a blizzard at Christmastime with Alaskan State Trooper Landon Defries, she must rely on him to survive, not only hazardous weather but deadly hit men.
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"In 1980, a freshman congressman was gunned down in Rhode Island, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating over four decades later. Now, with the world on the brink of war and a weakened United States facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites is ready to assume control. And with the world's most dangerous man locked in solitary confinement, the conspirators...
17) The first order
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Sam Capra novels volume 5
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Sam Capra has reason to believe that his brother, Danny, may be alive. And if Danny has been living a secret life these past years, where has he been-- and what has he become? The search leads to the Russian elite inner circle, a group of ruthless ex-KGB billionaires who owe fealty to Russia's corrupt president, Morozov. One of these men wants Morozov dead. And Danny will be the one to kill him-- on American soil. To save the world from certain war...
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Gunnie Rose novels volume 4
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#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns to her alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this fourth installment of the Gunnie Rose series. Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego--capital of the Holy Russian Empire--is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin,...
19) Hero
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"Justine Poole provides security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars, but that all changes when a job puts her in the limelight. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients--killing two of the five armed robbers in the process--she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts her in the crosshairs of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries. Unable to stand the embarrassment...
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"When single mother Addison Johnson is attacked by a hit man, she learns there's a price on her head. And Isaiah Bender-- the bounty hunter hired to track her down for crimes she didn't commit-- is her only hope for survival. Protecting Addison and her young son from armed assailants means seeking refuge in Amish country. But when their holiday hideout is discovered, can he clear an innocent woman's name and keep her alive?"--Back cover.
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