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Prodigal son / by Hurwitz, Gregg,author.;
"As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name--The Nowhere Man--and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer--in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities. Now Evan has to do the one thing he's least equipped to do--live a normal life. Evan gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew--his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran--a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother-and-sister assassin team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran's only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he's fought for is on the line--including his own life."--Back cover.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Action and adventure fiction.; Smoak, Evan (Fictitious character); Money laundering; Hackers; Assassins; Vigilantes; Assassination;
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Native son / by Wright, Richard,1908-1960.;
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.
Subjects: Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character); African American men; Death row inmates; Trials (Murder); Murderers;
© 2005., Harper Perennial Modern Classics,
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Prodigal son : [electronic resource] : Orphan X series, book 6. by Hurwitz, Gregg.; Brick, Scott.;
Narrator: Scott Brick.As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name -- The Nowhere Man -- and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer -- in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he's least equipped to do -- live a normal life. But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew -- his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran -- a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran's only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he's fought for is on the line -- including his own life. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur BooksRequires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 374920 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Suspense.; Thriller.;
© 2021., Macmillan Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=5538165 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Sons & brothers : the days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy / by Mahoney, Richard D.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-424) and index.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.; Presidents; Legislators; Brothers; United States. Congress. Senate; Kennedy family.;
© c1999., Arcade Pub.,
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Sons of valor / by Andrews, Brian,author.; Wilson, Jeffrey,1963-author.;
Navy SEAL Keith ''Chunk'' Redman is tasked to lead a new, covert team of Tier One SEALs. Ex-CIA analyst Whitney Watts sees evidence of a troubling link between illicit Chinese arms sales and an attack on a US military convoy in Afghanistan. From the ashes of a never-ending war, a new generation of terrorists has arisen: sophisticated, tech-savvy, and hiding in plain sight among America's allies. Battered by the Taliban and by the West, they call themselves al Qadr -- Power and Destiny -- and they're determined to wrest back control of their homeland. Armed with a powerful combat drone, they can strike with deadly precision at US forces in the region. The new Tier One's first mission will require them to not only prove themselves, but to stop an enemy who's using military tactics against them.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Navy. SEALs; Terrorists; Undercover operations;
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Tell my sons : a father's last letters / by Weber, Mark M.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction ... To be strong enough to know when you are weak, brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid -- Chapter One ... Not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge -- Chapter Two ... Not to substitute words for actions -- Chapter Three ... To be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success -- Chapter Four ... To seek out and experience a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of lift, an appetite for adventure over love of ease -- Chapter Five ... To seek a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, and to exercise a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity -- Chapter SIx ... To be modest so that you will appreciate the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength -- Chapter Seven ... To be serious, yet never to take yourself too seriously; to cry, but also to laugh -- Chapter Eight ... To discover the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what is next, and the joy and inspiration of life -- Epilogue: "How are you doing?""At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him--about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Weber, Mark M.; Conduct of life.; United States. Army; Minnesota. Army National Guard; Afghan War, 2001-; Cancer; Death; Afghan Campaign 2001-; Attitude to Death; Intestinal Neoplasms.;
© [2012], Ballantine Books,
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Baree, son of Kazan / by Curwood, James Oliver,1878-1927.;
© c1917., Doubleday, Page & Company,
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The son of Neptune / by Riordan, Rick.;
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
Subjects: Adventure stories, American.; Mythology, Roman; Mythology, Greek; Mythology, Roman; Mythology, Greek; Camps; Hera (Greek deity); Gaia (Greek deity); Monsters; Prophecies;
© c2011., Disney/Hyperion Books,
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Son of a gun : a memoir / by St. Germain, Justin.;
Includes bibliographical references.Recounts the murder of the author's mother in September 2001 and explores the crime against a backdrop of a shattering national tragedy and the author's efforts to distance himself from the legendary Tombstone, Arizona, of his youth.
Subjects: St. Germain, Justin.; St. Germain, Justin; St. Germain, Debbie, -2001; Murder; Mothers; Mothers and sons; Children of abused wives;
© 2014., Random House Trade Paperbacks,
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Season of water and ice / by Lystra, Donald.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Fathers and sons;
© c2009., Switch Grass Books/Northern Illinois University Press,
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