Jay Snyder
1) Zoo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear....
2) NYPD red
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NYPD red novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called....
3) NYPD red 2
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NYPD red novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on...
4) NYPD Red 3
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NYPD red novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Protect the rich. Serve the famous. Hunt the guilty. Hunter Alden, Jr., a billionaire businessman, has it all: a sexy wife, a brilliant teenage son, and an ever-growing fortune. But his perfect life shatters one horrific night when he discovers the severed head of his chauffeur, stuffed in a bag marked, in blood, with his son's initials. Now his son is missing, and the price to get him back might be too high--even for one of the world's richest men....
5) NYPD red 6
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NYPD red novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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My most elite crime-fighting force hasn't seen anything like this before. Reality star Erin Easton's Wedding of the Century may have a cable crew documenting every extravagant bridal detail, but when she disappears before the ceremony, it's no diva turn. Her dressing room is empty except for a blood-splattered wedding gown and signs of a struggle. NYPD Red detective Kylie MacDonald, already on-scene as a plus one, loops in her partner, Detective...
7) Private L.A
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 6
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English
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"Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find. They live behind such a high wall of security and image control that even world-renowned Private Investigator Jack Morgan can't get to the truth. But as...
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan, only to find himself immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
9) The games
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2016
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English
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Rio deJaneiro, Brazil-home to beautiful white-sand beaches, gorgeous women, stunning natural beauty, and the world's largest Carnival celebration-knows how to throw a party. So it's a natural choice to host the biggest spectacles in sports-the World Cup and the Olympics. To ensure that the games go off without a hitch, the organizers turn to Jack Morgan, the unflappable head of the renowned international security and consulting firm Private. But when...
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Join the NYPD Red team in their most explosive case ever. The series from James Patterson and Marshall Karp has always been a must-read. But Karp's latest, NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority, tops them all, making it a must-read-now!
Lower Manhattan: A sniper's bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has his throat slashed.
And that's only the beginning. A network of professional assassins is...
11) Shadowkiller
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of suspense so terrifying it may make you afraid of the dark . . .Allison Taylor MacKenna feels as though she's awakened at last from a ten-year-long nightmare.
But her darkest hour has yet to come . . .Nestled in the warm, domestic cocoon of loving husband and family, Allison finally feels safe-unaware that a stranger's brutal murder on a Caribbean island is the first step in an intricate...
12) Nightwatcher
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Immediately after the September 11 attacks on New York City, Allison Taylor, James MacKenna, and homicide detective Rocky Manzillo are drawn together by a serial killer called "The Nightwatcher" who has his own terrifying agenda.
13) Sleepwalker
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When someone starts savagely murdering women near her home, Allison Taylor Mackenna, a survivor of another serial killer, finds her life in danger once again, and worries that her husband, Mack, may be the guilty party.
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One of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century, existentialism has had more impact on literature and the arts than any other school of thought. Focusing on the leading figures of existentialism, including Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus, Thomas Flynn offers a concise account of existentialism, explaining the key themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility, which...
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If you think Saddam and Satan make a kinky couple, wait till you get a load of South Park and Philosophy. Get your Big Wheels ready, because were going for a ride, as 22 philosophers take us down the road to understanding the big-picture issues in this small mountain town. Is Dan Rather real? Should Big Gay Al be allowed to marry Mr. Slave? What does philosophy have to do with flatulence? Addressing the perennial questions of the show, and looking...
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The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer.
Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and writers-from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and Beckett-have responded to the ultimate question...
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David Kiley, who chronicled the engaging history of Volkswagen in Getting the Bugs Out, now focuses on BMW, a luxury brand and coveted car. Excellent management at BMW has consistently turned out a superior product, and their image worldwide has remained one of elegance, while other car companies fluctuate with each new model. By gaining unprecedented access to the development of the new 1-Series, which will be BMW's lowest price vehicle to date,...
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The future of marketing is on mobile devices and most businesses know next to nothing about it. 75% of the world now has access to a mobile phone; 235 million Americans own a mobile device; 85 million shop on their smartphones. In 2012, the average person spent 82 minutes per day using their phone for non-talk activities (that’s more than double the same figure in 2010). Cable and satellite has fragmented television audiences. Newspapers and print...
19) The Devil's Bed
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When President Clay Dixon's father-in-law, a former vice president, is injured in a farming accident, First Lady Kate Dixon returns to Minnesota to be at his side. Assigned to protect her, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen soon falls under Kate's spell. He also suspects the accident is part of a trap set for Kate by David Moses, an escaped mental patient who once loved her. What Bo and Moses don't realize is that they're caught in a web of deadly intrigue...
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Gods at War (paperback) is an engaging must read exploration of the modern takeover. This book examines this subject by drilling down on deals and events in the last few years that have forever changed the world of mergers and acquisitions. It will be a whirlwind tour of takeovers and the players in this arena, including private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, private equity, management, and sovereign wealth funds. Gods at War will not only...