Amos Decker and Alex Jamison investigate the death of a woman whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open, which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case.
Action and adventure fiction
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Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary: - Author:Mosher, Howard FrankSummary:
Working on the Underground Railroad throughout the Civil War, Morgan Kinneson is shaken by the murder of a slave and the disappearance of his brother from the Union army, triggering his life-threatening search through war-stricken...
- Author:Johnson, Kristin F.Summary:
When Alexandra's dad gets a new job in Hawaii, her parents promise that life there will be paradise. But what they couldn't predict is a natural disaster of epic proportions. A tsunami slams into their new island home, quickly...
- Author:Damico, GinaSummary:
Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama-and nothing about the fact that the production is fake...
- Author:Chen, MikeSummary:
Jamie woke up in an empty apartment with no memory and only a few clues to his identity, but with the ability to read and erase other people's memories--a power he uses to hold up banks to buy coffee, cat food and books. Zoe is...
- Author:Jensen, CarstenSummary:
In 1848, Danish sailors set sail to fight Germans. Not all return, and those who do will never be the same, including daredevil Laurids Madsen, who escapes again to the seas. Here also is the story of a Danish town, whose inhabitants...
- Author:Kraus, DanielSummary:
A USA Today bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR. The Martian meets 127 Hours in this "astoundingly great" (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically...
- Author:Wheeler, KateSummary:
An interweaving of two love stories that span generations begins in the 1940s as Althea Barnes becomes enamored of both India and a Hindu priest, and continues with her granddaughter, who has an affair with a revolutionary in...
- Author:Muller, RachelSummary:
Chloe McBride has some reservations about accepting her elderly great-aunts' invitation to spend part of the summer with them in Little Venice, but her initial reluctance is outweighed by her curiosity about the mysterious key that came...
- Author:McCaughrean, GeraldineSummary:
Winner of the 2018 Carnegie Medal! New from Michael L. Printz Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean comes an extraordinary story of eight boys stranded on a rock in the middle of the sea, left to fight for their survival. Every time a lad...
- Author:Clavell, JamesSummary:
The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979-three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak. When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
A man is left for dead when Columbian pirates raid his yacht and murder his wife and daughter. But soon after, he receives a phone call which reveals that his daughter is still alive.
- Author:London, JackSummary:
After nearly starving in the desolate Yukon territory, a young wolfdog pup is taken in by a group of Native Americans and must grow into a savage and independent fighter to fend off the wolves and humans who threaten his survival. A...
- Author:Slayton, David R.Summary:
Adam has the Sight, the ability to see into another world. Hoping to track down his missing father, Adam follows a trail of cursed artifacts to Denver, where an ancient spirit has taken possession of his brother's wife. It isn't long...
- Author:Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary KateSummary:
These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
- Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal...
- Author:Hodge, RebeccaSummary:
When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now...
- Author:David, PeterSummary:
There's less than one week to go in the run-up to the nation's next general presidential election--a heated political contest pitting the incumbent president against a popular challenger. But all bets are off when a heinous...
- Author:Matthews, HughSummary:
Logan has begun to experience memories of time spent serving in the Canadian army during World War II. When he digs deeper, he discovers that he was held as a prisoner of war at a concentration camp and experimented on by a ruthless...
- Author:Mack, DavidSummary:
He has a past shrouded in mystery, a skeleton sheathed in indestructible metal, unbreakable claws that can cut through almost anything, and a mutant healing factor that can mend virtually any wound.His friends call him Logan. The X-Men...
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