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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
Author
Series
Gray Man thrillers volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Is it ever the wrong time to do the right thing? That's the question the Gray Man faces in the latest explosive novel from New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney. I am Court Gentry. In my time, I've seen plenty of bad stuff. Some things worse than others, but nothing that can match this horror show. I was on a simple mission in Bosnia. A bad guy needed to be put down; in and out, no problem. But then I stumbled across a nightmare-a room full...
4) Runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 13
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1995, c1934
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The search for a stolen boat leads the Hardy brothers to Mexico, where they become involved with a band of Indians and a strange smuggling operation.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
Korean
Description
Upon learning that his decaying fishing trawler, the Junjin, is about to be sold, Captain Kang looks to make one final score by smuggling illegal immigrants from China to South Korea. After arriving at the agreed upon pickup point, a violent storm forces the Junjin to stall in open waters. As tension and unrest spread, Kang and his five-man crew find themselves pitted against their desperate passengers--all while an ominous fog envelops the ship and...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 32
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew comes to the aid of the owners of a local dancing school when they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives.
8) Hold fast
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Hardy is kidnapped by a gang of jewel smugglers as a warning for the Hardy Boys' father to stay away from their operation.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
When Dirk Pitt saves a group of archaeologists from drowning, he finds himself caught up in a smuggling ring searching for lost Inca treasure.
11) Rebelwing
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At New Columbia Preparatory Academy in a near-future Washington, D.C., black market smuggler Prudence Wu and friends Anabel, Alex, and Cat become key players in a conflict with the United Continental Confederacy.
12) Bare bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. And what...
13) Frozen river
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman, and Lila, a Mohawk, both single mothers facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While escorting a violent man charged with murdering a preacher's daughter to jail, Luke Jensen discovers that the man is innocent of this crime as they both battle for their lives in a storm of bullets, betrayal and blood as they attempt to bring the real killer--the son of a cattle baron--to justice.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne Treadstone novels volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Adam Hayes, a former operative for Treadstone, a CIA unit that "turned him into a government-sanctioned assassin," in Ceuta, Spain, where he's feeling proud of himself for not having killed anyone in 152 days. He's left his wife and child behind in America and gone on the run after the U.S. government declared him persona non grata. In Ceuta, he becomes involved in a smuggling ring, and the no-kill record is soon broken. Meanwhile, Andre Cabot, the...
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As soon as twelve-year-old Steve Brixton opens a detective office in his backyard, he and his best friend Dana are caught up in a tangle of cases, from breaking up a ring of piratical smugglers, to recovering a stolen surfboard, to tracking down a fifth-grader's missing gym shorts.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world -- using her magnetism and charm to pry...
18) Hours to kill
Author
Series
Homeland heroes (Susan Sleeman) volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just as FBI Special Agent Addison Leigh reaches the pinnacle of her cybercrimes investigation into a firearms-smuggling ring, she's attacked and left in a coma with no memory of the incident - or of her estranged husband who rushes to her bedside. Deputy U.S. Marshal Mack Jordan may have let his past military trauma ruin their brief marriage, but Addison never gave up on their relationship, and he promises to hunt down the man who attacked her. Mack...
19) Contraband
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 50
Thorndike Press large print basic
A Stone Barrington novel volume 50
Thorndike Press large print basic
A Stone Barrington novel volume 50
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington is getting some much-needed rest and relaxation in the Florida sun when trouble falls from the sky -- literally. Intrigued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding this event, Stone joins forces with a sharp-witted and alluring local detective to investigate. But they run into a problem: the evidence keeps disappearing. From the laid-back Key West shores to the bustling Manhattan streets, Stone sets out to connect the dots between...
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem-again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
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