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Adult Fiction - Action & Adventure
Updated May 23, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
Oak Creek Public Library
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Washington Black
Edugyan, Esi
Paper Book
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." --Vanity Fair Eleven-year-old George Washington...
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The red line : [a novel]
Gragg, Walt
Paper Book
A blizzard is the perfect cover for a shocking act of Russian aggression. Emboldened by their successful annexation of the Crimea, a power-mad Russian president sends his troops over the border into eastern Germany. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. Army Staff...
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The captain's vengeance : an Alan Lewrie naval adventure
Lambdin, Dewey.
Paper Book
Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, is once again pursuing a chimera. A rich French prize ship he'd left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing, along with six of his sailors. What starts as a straightforward search for it, and them, from Hispaniola to Barbados, far down the...
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The mountain story
Lansens, Lori
Paper Book
Four lost hikers are about to discover they're capable of something extraordinary. Nola has gone up the mountain to commemorate her wedding anniversary, the first since her beloved husband passed. Blonde, stick-thin Bridget is training for a triathalon. Vonn is working out her teenage...
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The Devil's company : a novel
Liss, David
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author ofThe Whiskey RebelsandA Conspiracy of Papercomes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fiction’s most enthralling characters. The...
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The call of the wild and, White fang
London, Jack
Paper Book
The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of...
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The witch of babylon
McIntosh, D. J.
Paper Book
Out of the searing heat and sandstorms of the infamous summer of 2003 in Baghdad comes The Witch of Babylon, a gripping story rooted in ancient Assyrian lore and its little-known but profound significance for the world. John Madison is a Turkish-American art dealer raised by his much...
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Seven wonders : a novel
Mezrich, Ben
Paper Book
When the reclusive mathematician Jeremy Grady is murdered, it's up to his estranged brother Jack to find out why. Jack's search leads him on a far-flung journey -- from Brazil, India, Peru, and beyond -- as he unravels the mystery that links the Seven Wonders of the World, and discovers that Jeremy...
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Labyrinth
Mosse, Kate
Paper Book
In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes...
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The cold kiss
Rector, John
Paper Book
All Nate and Sara want is a new life in a new town, away from the crime and poverty of their past. So, after being approached at a roadside diner by a man offering $500 for a ride to Omaha, they wonder if their luck might be changing.At first it seems like easy money, but within a few hours the man...
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The prince of risk
Reich, Christopher
Paper Book
At the crossroads of high finance and international terrorism, a New York hedge-fund manager searches for the truth behind his father's murder. The master of the financial thriller returns. "Christopher Reich is a superstar."--Lee Child Bobby Astor is a...
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Drive
Sallis, James
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Christina Hendricks Driver works as a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He drives, that's all--until he's double-crossed. "One stark and stunning tale of murder, treachery, and...
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Nothing short of dying : a Clyde Barr novel
Storey, Erik
Paper Book
Hailed by bestselling writer William Kent Krueger as "the year's best thriller debut," this furiously paced ride into harm's way features a drifter with lethal skills, whose mission to rescue his abducted sister pits him against a ruthless meth kingpin and his army of killers. Sixteen...
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20,000 leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Originally published in 1870, Verne's amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Since that time, generations of readers have plunged below the ocean's waves with Captain Nemo and his first-ever submarine, The Nautilus. It's a...
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