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The Cassandra virus
Par K. V Johansen. 2006
Jordan shadows his sister, Cassie, a graduate student studying computer engineering. First the bored computer geek designs a program that…
develops a mind of its own, then Jordan uses Cassie's computer parts to create a robot that responds to voice and visual commands. When a self-serving university administrator wants to use it for sinister purposes, danger ensues as men trash Cassie's lab and, finding nothing, set out for Jordan's house. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.The Bourne initiative (New Jason Bourne novel. #14.)
Par Eric Lustbader. 2017
Can Jason Bourne be working against his own country? The US Government is convinced of his treason, and Bourne's only…
hope is to join forces with his bitterest enemy. Sequel to "The Bourne enigma". 2017.The chemist
Par Stephenie Meyer. 2016
She used to work for the U.S. government, one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't…
even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came without warning, and they killed the only other person she trusted. When her former handler offers her a way out, it is her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. And now she finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of. Bestseller. 2016.The chains of fate (Goldhayes trilogy ; #2)
Par Pamela Belle. 1987
Civil war raged over the land, and Thomazine married Dominic whom she could never love, believing her Francis to be…
dead. When she learned that Francis was alive she rode north, deserting her child, to find the man she loved. Time and again, her chains of fate would tear Thomazine and Francis apart, yet some day the chains of love must prove stronger. Sequel to "The moon in the water". Followed by "Alethea". 1987. (Goldhayes trilogy ; 2)The cellist of Sarajevo
Par Steven Galloway. 2008
Sarajevo, 1992. A cellist plays Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor as a memorial on each of twenty-two days following a…
mortar attack that kills twenty-two citizens who are standing in a bread line. The music deeply affects a sniper, a father, and an older man. Inspired by historic events. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Winner of the 2009 Evergreen Award. 2008.The breadwinner (Breadwinner Ser. #1)
Par Deborah Ellis. 2000
A story about loyalty, survival, families and friendship, set against the backdrop of an intolerable existence in war-torn Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old…
Parvana lives in Taliban-controlled Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. Masquerading as a boy, Parvana goes to work in the streets so that her family can eat. Parvana becomes the breadwinner. Grades 5-8. 2000.The cabal (Kirk McGarvey adventures. #14.)
Par David Hagberg. 2010
CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with Joshua Givens, an investigative reporter who has uncovered a dangerous secret. Givens suspects…
that a lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club. The journalist is convinced that the "club" is powerful enough to topple the United States. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is gunned down. The same evening, Givens and his family are killed. McGarvey is about to be drawn into the most far-reaching and perilous investigation of his career. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.The breached wall (Wheels of fortune ; #3)
Par Anita Burgh. 2007
Spring 1915. Far away in France, the Great War was not over by Christmas as was confidently predicted. It shows…
no sign of ending, and the peaceful calm of Cresswell Manor in Devon has been shattered. It is now a convalescent home for soldiers from the Front. The old social order is crumbling as surely as time begins to breach the walls of the ancient manor house. Sequel to "The heart's citadel". 2007. (Wheels of fortune ; 3)The broken bough (Hallam Family ; #1)
Par Nicola Thorne. 2001
In the early 1900s pretty Cathy Read is widowed when her husband, Bill, is killed in an accident and soon…
life is a struggle. She has three young children to feed and clothe: Verity, Addie and Peg, so when Cathy's eldest sister offers to adopt Verity, she reluctantly agrees. Despite a new marriage to an old friend of Bill's, Cathy's hardships only increase with the addition of two more children and, eventually, the outbreak of war in 1914. During the war, Verity becomes a nursing sister, Addie a teacher, and Peg considers embarking on a career as a journalist. By the time of the Armistice, each member of the family finds her life radically changed by a world with strange new values. 2001. (Hallam Family ; 1)The bomb vessel (Nathaniel Drinkwater Ser. #Bk. 4)
Par Richard Woodman. 1984
Drinkwater is determined to turn the "Virago" back into a fighting ship and, despite falling foul of Lord Nelson and…
nearly losing his ship, succeeds in playing a crucial role in the Battle of Copenhagen. Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of the old 'Virago', a stores tender in the Baltic expedition of 1801. 1984.The bully boys
Par Eric Walters. 2000
While the War of 1812 rages, Tom Roberts, fourteen, is left behind to look after the family farm. That all…
changes when he stops some American soldiers from robbing the local store. His quick thinking and bravery catch the eye of Lieutenant James FitzGibbon and lead to Tom joining the Bully Boys, FitzGibbon's unit. There Tom learns more about the fascination, and the horror, of war than he ever wanted to know. Junior high readers. 2000.The bush soldiers
Par John Hooker. 1984
Five stranded soldiers, two British, three Australian, try to survive as they trek across a bleak stretch of Australia in…
1943 destroying anything that might help the invading Japanese. The story of their adventures and privations alternates with flashbacks to the story of the heroic Sawtell, a dutiful member of the Australian Volunteer Defence Corps. Some strong language. 1984.The burning blue
Par James Holland. 2004
Joss Lambert has always been a loner, constrained by a secret from his past, until he finds friendship and solace…
firstly with Guy Liddell, a friend from school, and then with Guy's family, who welcome him into their farmhouse home. Joss increasingly comes to depend upon the Liddells and treats Alvesdon Farm as the one place where he feels not only appreciated but also truly happy. The idyll cannot last. With war looming, Joss is forced to confront the past. He escapes through flying, becoming a fighter pilot in the RAF. But with the onset of war, even the Liddells's world is crumbling. As Joss is fighting for his life in the Battle of Britain, so he begins to fall madly in love with Stella - Guy's twin. 2004.The Bourne ultimatum (Bourne Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Robert Ludlum. 1994
Jason Bourne is forced from retirement by a series of terrifying events, starting with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death.…
The Jackal, Bourne's supreme enemy, has returned. And so Medusa - the dreaded secret society, seeking clandestine power, is once more flexing its vicious tentacles. The scene is set for carnage galore. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.The book thief
Par Markus Zusak. 2007
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.The bride of the wilderness: a novel
Par Charles McCarry. 1988
Set in Britain during the Black Plague and in colonial America during the French and Indian War. At the centre…
of the story are Henry Harding, a quick-witted, fun-loving trader, his daughter, Fanny, and his dearest friend, Oliver Barebones, who excels at football. 1988.The bronze horseman
Par Paullina Simons. 2000
Set in Leningrad in 1941 against Hitler's invasion of Russia, this story tells of the impossible love between a Russian…
girl, Tatiana, and a young officer named Alexander. It is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart and it carries a secret that could mean death for anyone who hears it. Followed by "The bridge to Holy Cross" (DC33402). 2000.The bridge to Holy Cross
Par Paullina Simons. 2003
This novel resumes the tale of Tatiana and Alexander as pregnant eighteen year old Tatiana leaves Russia thinking Alexander is…
dead. She begins her new life in wartime New York City where she finds work, friends and a life beyond her dreams. Alexander, an American trapped in Russia, has been arrested by Stalin's secret police as a traitor and a spy. Will the fate that once pulled them together so forcefully reunite them again? Sequel to "The Bronze Horseman" (DC33084). 2003.The boy in the striped pyjamas
Par John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The Bourne supremacy (Bourne ; #2)
Par Robert Ludlum. 1986
Jason Bourne has announced his return. But who, now, is Bourne? Is he the quiet professor and loving husband, or…
is he the most deadly master of the killing arts the world has ever known? In a smoky disreputable cabaret in Kowloon, murder is swiftly and violently perpetrated and eleven letters are written in the dead man's blood. Sequel to "Bourn identity" (DC05315). 1986. (Bourne ; 2)