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1) Hit list
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John Keller novels volume 2
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Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to kill a perfect stranger. Keller is a pro and very good at what he does. But the jobs have started to go wrong. The realization is slow coming yet, when it arrives, it is irrefutable: Someone out there is trying to hit...
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Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father's gruff stableman. He is treated like an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him sectetly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz's blood runs the magic Skill and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family. As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz...
3) Hit parade
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John Keller novels volume 3
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English
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Keller is friendly. Industrious. A bit lonely, sometimes. If it wasn't for the fact that he kills people for a living, he'd be just your average Joe. The inconvenient wife, the troublesome sports star, the greedy business partner, the vicious dog, he'll take care of them all, quietly and efficiently. If the price is right.
Like the rest of us, Keller's starting to worry about his retirement. After all, he's not getting any younger. (His victims,...
4) Hit and run
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John Keller novels volume 4
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English
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Fingered for a murder he didn't commit, a hit man goes on the run to save his life.
5) The patient
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Master of scalpel-sharp suspense, New York Times best-selling author Michael Palmer brings his unique experience as an emergency room physician to each of his sensational thrillers. In The Patient, he creates a beautiful neurosurgeon from Boston who must treat a cold-blooded killer or forfeit the lives of hundreds of innocent victims. Dr. Jesse Copeland is experimenting with ARTIE, a tiny robot designed to remove previously inoperable brain tumors....
6) Hit man
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John Keller novels volume 1
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English
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A collection of stories featuring the character of Keller, a professional assassin who deals with the normal problems of loneliness, job dissatisfaction, and self-doubt, while going about his gruesome work.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 15
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English
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She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works. resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. But when a bomb explodes abroad her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. - Gabriela's target is Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. Quinn...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 16
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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
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John Keller novels volume 5
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English
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With a new wife and a baby on the way, Keller, a.k.a. Nicholas Edwards, is done killing people for money until a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game, taking him to Dallas to settle a domestic dispute to New York, where people might remember him.
10) Blade breaker
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Realm breaker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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Andry, a former squire, continues to fight for hope amid blood and chaos.
Dom, a grieving immortal, strives to fulfill a broken oath.
Sorasa, an outcast assassin, faces her past when it returns with sharpened teeth.
Valtik, an old sorceress, summons a mighty power.
And Corayne, a pirate’s daughter with an ancient magic in her blood, steps closer to becoming the hero she’s destined to be.
Together they must assemble an army to face Queen Erida...
11) Assassin's heart
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Assassin's heart volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Via, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
12) The watchers
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Just below the surface among the family of God lives another family tree--one traced in spirit, invisible and ageless, known as the Watchers. For two thousand years they've seen beyond the veil separating this world from the next, passing on their gift through a lineage mostly overlooked. Throughout history they've scouted the borders of the supernatural frontier, but now their survival hangs by a thread. And their fate lies in the hands of a young...
13) The crown tower
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Riyria chronicles volume 1
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English
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Thieving assassin Royce Melborn and warrior Hadrian Blackwater are forced to work together to steal a treasure that no one can reach in the Crown Tower, an impregnable fortress that houses the realm's most prized possessions.
14) Darkness follows
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Sam Travis lives in a Civil War era farmhouse in Gettysburg, PA, where he awakens one morning to find an old journal with an entry by a Union soldier, Lt. Whiting...written in Sam's own handwriting. When this happens several more times, both at night and during waking "trances," Sam begins to question his own sanity while becoming obsessed with Lt. Whiting and his bone-chilling journal entries. As the entries begin to mimic Sam's own life, he is drawn...
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Riyria chronicles volume 3
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Three times they tried to kill her. Then they hired a professional. She hired Riyria.
When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the plot.
Three years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and the cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start life as thieves for hire. Things have gone well enough until they receive the odd assignment to prevent a murder. Now they...
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Riyria chronicles volume 4
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English
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When Gabriel Winter's daughter mysteriously disappears and is presumed dead, the wealthy whiskey baron seeks revenge. Having lived in Colnora during the infamous Year of Fear, he hires the one man he knows can deliver a bloody retribution - the notorious Duster. Riyria's job appears easy: discover what happened to the missing duchess and, if she lives, bring her home, if not, punish those responsible. But nothing is simple in the crowded, narrow,...
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Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears...
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Jeremy Fisk novels volume 2
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English
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"Detective Jeremy Fisk is out to stop an assassin let loose in New York City by a shadowy business cartel in this pulse-pounding follow up to the New York Times bestseller The Intercept, from Law & Order creator Dick Wolf"--Provided by publisher.
19) Julius Caesar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents the text of "Julius Caesar," in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate him on the Ides of March, and includes introductory and textual notes, brief character profiles, a synopsis, teaching tools and suggestions, historical background, and biographical information about Shakespeare.
20) Kill the queen
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"Gladiator meets Game of Thrones: a royal woman becomes a skilled warrior to destroy her murderous cousin, avenge her family, and save her kingdom in this first entry in a dazzling fantasy epic from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Assassin series--an enthralling tale that combines magic, murder, intrigue, adventure, and a hint of romance. In a realm where one's magical power determines one's worth, Lady Everleigh's...
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