Sparks, Lily
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A--the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile. To avoid prison, Signal signs on for a secret program for 18-and-under Class As and is whisked off to an abandoned sleep-away camp, where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPADuncan, Emily A.
Summary: Nadya, a girl who can speak to gods, must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. In a centuries-long war, their paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. But a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DUNKagawa, Julie
Summary: Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. But Ember can't forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed he--Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragon-slaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, knowing that by doing so, he'd signed his own death warrant....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KAGLawrence, Mark
Summary: "The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors ... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWWesterfeld, Scott
Summary: In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESWesterfeld, Scott
Summary: In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WESDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Lilac's birthright makes her the Queen of Renovia, and a forced marriage made her the Queen of Stavin. But being a ruler does not mean making the rules-- taking the throne means giving up the opportunity to be with love of her life, the kingdom's assassin, Caledon Holt. Cal is forced to leave the castle when a horrific set of magical attacks threatens Lilac's sovereignty. Now Cal and Lilac will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LColfer, Eoin.
Summary: In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLGutman, Dan.
Summary: On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION GUTStohl, Margaret
Summary: Natasha Romanov, called the Black Widow, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, rescues a young girl from Ivan, the man who once trained her as an assassin--and eight years later she is called upon to protect the teenage Ava from a threat from the past--and possibly fromS.H.I.E.L.D itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOAhiers, Sarah
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Via, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AHIQuirk, Matthew
Summary: "Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this electrifying tale from the author of The Night Agent-a propulsive political thriller reminiscent of the best early Baldacci and Grisham novels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUICrais, Robert
Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYSTERY CRARobards, Karen
Summary: Clever, cunning and highly skilled--there's only one Bianca St. Ives and don't you dare forget it. Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does--the way her father trained her to--hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBEgan, Catherine
Summary: With a band of assassins pursuing them, Julia and her companions continue their search for the witch Ko Dan while Julia struggles with her ability to vanish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EGABaldacci, David.
Summary: Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baldacci 2013Boecker, Virginia
Summary: When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers he was also involved in a murder plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. She disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to take it one step further: kill the queen herself. She is cast in William Shakespeare's newest play, which is to be performed in front of Her Majesty. But the play is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOEHurwitz, Gregg Andrew
Summary: Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets--i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HURDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: "The Queen's Assassin is forced to take on a mysterious apprentice on his most dangerous mission yet, pulling them both into a vicious web of secrets and lies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LSomper, Justin.
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Jared inherits the throne of Archenfield after his older brother, Prince Anders, is murdered. He relies on the twelve officers of the court to advise him but soon suspects one of them could be responsible for his brother's death and vows to hunt down the killer, who may be after Jared as well"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SOMHobb, Robin.
Summary: Fitz, Prince Chivalry's illegitimate son raised by Burrich the stableman, is ignored by all the royalty except for King Shrewd, who has him tutored as an assassin because he has the magic Skill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF HOBFlanagan, John (John Anthony)
Summary: Princess Cassandra of Araluen has already survived one assassination attempt, but when a second attempt proves that the deadly Scorpion Cult is involved, Hal, his Heron Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan are dispatched to ensure her safety by launching a preemptive strike against Scorpion Mountain and its cult of assassins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FLAMaas, Sarah J.
Summary: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MASMaas, Sarah J.
Summary: "Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015