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1) The 9th man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium, Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly trained operatives is there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides--one seeking...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At Kunugigaoka Junior High School, Assassination Classroom class 3-E is the lowest of the low. With abysmal test scores and no future prospects, they've been given up on and hidden away from the main campus at the top of a deserted mountain. But when a super-powered tentacled creature with a thirst for destruction becomes their new teacher, they've got a brand new assignment to get them inspired about school: take him out.
Publisher
FUNimation Productions, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In their second term, the students grow closer to Koro Sensei and it becomes more difficult to think of taking him out. The revelation of his story and intentions creates a rift in the class between those who would complete the assignment and those who would save him.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
It has been some time since Nagisa and Karma were a part of the assassination classroom. Like the rest of Class 3-E, they have grown and followed their own paths. However, no matter how much time has passed, they will still remember their time with Koro Sensei and the lessons he taught them. Walking around their old classroom, the two former students reminisce about the time they spent in Class 3-E and the crazy events that went down.
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
Ten years have passed since Jack and Ivy, elite operatives for the secret agency Talon, rescued their friend Philip and completed their fateful mission. The 1920s are in full swing as American speakeasies thrive amid Prohibition, and despite the team's best efforts, the deadly cult, the Order of the Rising Moon, lives on in the shadows. Which is no surprise to Ivy; nothing has gone as she expected since that day after Poenari Castle. When a wave of...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
American girl turned monarchy nightmare, Evan Bright, has gotten used to the press about her but the media attention has only seemed to get worse. From desperate clickbait articles about her and the President's son to Royal Record headlines pitting her against Princess Maisie, it seems everyone is dying for Evan to return back to America for good. Meanwhile Evan is receiving mysterious threats about her real story being reveiled in a tell-all biography....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine days in the life of a country on the edge, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukrainian band of partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian national guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO, by assassinating a deputy minister of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
12) The golden gate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs....
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an "F" on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call...again? How about blowing up the moon and threatening to do the same to Mother Earth--unless you take him out first?! Plus a reward of a cool 100 million from the Ministry of Defense!...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?! Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"?What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an "F" on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call...again? How about blowing up the moon and...
Author
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Koro Sensei tells all: his former profession, his nickname, the mad scientists responsible for his unique cephalopod physiognomy, the love of his life, and why he wants to teach the 3-E students. New light is shed not only on his character, but on the reason he vowed to destroy the Earth in March.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on...
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