Anthony Horowitz
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Hawthorne and Horowitz volume 4
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In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation--and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne. "I'm sorry but the answer's no." Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne...
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"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . " These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth 3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the...
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"Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married, a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye...
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Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West. Only one person is missing from M's funeral: James Bond, the man who pulled the trigger. Behind the Iron Curtain, former SMERSH agents want to use Bond in an operation...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
7) Stormbreaker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
8) Moriarty
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Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt
"Anthony Horowitz throws down the gauntlet in his infernally clever Sherlock Holmes pastiche." — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, that explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch
...9) Snakehead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
10) Scorpia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
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2017
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Narrated by Samantha Bond
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""A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers."" —Janet Maslin, New York Times
New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel | NPR Best Book of the Year | Washington Post Best Book
...12) Raven's gate
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Gatekeepers volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
14) Evil star
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Gatekeepers volume 2
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
15) Skeleton Key
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
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Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2011
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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With approval from the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a best-selling novelist and Sherlock Holmes expert brings the greatest detective in literary history back to life on Baker Street for the first time since 1930.
18) Groosham Grange
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.
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Alex Rider volume 14
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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When Nightshade kidnaps his best friend, teen spy Alex Rider must enter the world of virtual reality gaming where the lines between what's real and what's digital are deliberately being blurred by a ruthless enemy.