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Author
Series
Millennium volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...
4) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Tick Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. After holing up in Mango Key and drowning his grief in Jack Daniels, Tick is sober and a bestselling author but his brother Pete keeps trying to drag him back to the land of the living. Then special agent Kate Rush is asked to move to Mango Key to investigate human trafficking there, and the Kelly brothers seem to be suspects.
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac was shipped out to Bosnia, where DynCorp had been contracted to support the UN peacekeeping mission. She was assigned as a human rights investigator,...
7) Kill for me
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five teenage girls have been viciously attacked. One survived. Only she can reveal the secrets of a disturbing ring of people who kidnap and sell teenage girls on the black market. But those responsible for the crimes will do whatever it takes to maintain her silence.
Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos have both sworn to stop the murderers for their own personal reasons. The investigation leads them to the shady realm of Internet chat rooms,...
Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos have both sworn to stop the murderers for their own personal reasons. The investigation leads them to the shady realm of Internet chat rooms,...
Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
p2009, c2006
Language
English
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
9) Taken
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A kidnapping drops Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the maelstrom of human smugglers. After L.A. college senior Krista Morales finds out the secret her boyfriend, USC dropout Jack Berman, has been hiding, she brings him out to the desert to reveal her own secret: the place where her mother Nita, who runs a highly successful business, was once brought into the country as an illegal alien. Unfortunately, the coyotes are still plying their customary trade...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three...
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern border in record quantities, turning Americans into addicts...
12) Hell gate
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
Investigating two cases, including a human trafficking shipwreck and a New York congressman's sex scandal, Alexandra Cooper discovers a common clue that links both cases and puts her life in danger.
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