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1) Rogue lawyer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After decades of working in the remote tribal regions of Pakistan, eighty-year-old debut author Jamil Ahmad sat down to write this novel about a formidable, wild place where Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan meet and the people living there, who are constantly subjected to extremes - both of place and of culture. The Wandering Falcon is an essential glimpse into a hidden world which has enormous geopolitical significance and yet remains a mystery to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Robert Walking Bear's body is found in the Wind River mountains, his death appears to be accidental--except for the fact that he had been hunting for Butch Cassidy's buried loot with a map he had gotten from his grandfather, a map believed to have been drawn by the leader of the Hole in the Wall gang himself. It isn't long before rumors circulate that Robert was murdered by his own cousins to get the map and find the treasure themselves. Despite...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Young siblings Mara and Dann are abducted from their home in the middle of the new Ice Age and left by themselves to survive the cold weather and bands of violent Rock People. The children finally catch up with the human migration to a warmer climate, but then must travel through cities and countries devastated by poverty and disease.
Author
Series
Books of Ambha volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and...
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