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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 21
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Presents an account of the FIFA corruption scandal that implicated nearly every aspect of international soccer, sharing insights into the roles of key personalities while tracing the efforts of law enforcement officials to expose the truth.
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"In February 2013, the director of Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, made the shocking announcement that 700 international soccer matches had been fixed since 2008, including World Cup qualifying and exhibition matches, with a Chinese criminal syndicate pulling the strings. For the first time, investigative journalist Brett Forrest takes us inside the underworld of one of organized crime's most profitable businesses--a $1 trillion...
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"An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited"--
"Abuse and exploitation of workers is baked into the very foundations of the entertainment industry. To break the cycle and make change that sticks, it's important to stop looking at headline-making stories as individual events. Instead, one must look closely at the bigger picture,...
5) About face
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Work turns toxic for a Venice, Italy police detective in this novel in the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling series.
Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous trash piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across...
Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous trash piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across...
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On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and the identity of a really cold corpse.
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Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
10) Open season
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Joe Pickett novels volume 1
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Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden -- especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way -- is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind Joe's state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile...
11) Fear
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Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following a shootout that kills his best friend, Miles Kendrick, an ex-mob spy turned federal witness, runs for his life, with assassin and former FBI agent Dennis Groote in pursuit.
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Ty Hauck novels volume 3
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"Reckless is a sexy-as-hell thriller and Andrew Gross's best."
-James Patterson "Fantastic….An automatic must read for lovers of fast, topical, can't-put-it-down thrillers."
-Lee Child
"Bold, brainy and chilling, you won't be able to put this book down."
-Linda Fairstein #1 New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross soars to breathtaking new heights with Reckless-as investigator Ty Hauck, hero of The Dark Tide and Don't Look Twice,...
13) The road to ruin
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Dortmunder novels volume 11
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Having set up a con on Monroe Hall, a fabulously wealthy and corrupt CEO, John Dortmunder and his hapless gang of crooks suddenly find themselves caught in the deadly crossfire between their would-be mark Hall and his own victims.
14) Long way down
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Jason Stafford novels volume 3
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Working as a financial investigator after two years in federal prison, Jason Stafford looks into a biofuel engineer's claims about being set up by dangerous adversaries.
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Chronicles the rise of the multibillion dollar college sports empire through the experience of the Florida State Seminoles, discussing how ethical and legal compromises undermine the academic missions of universities.
"A searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious,...
16) Deadly proof
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Atlanta justice novels volume 1
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"In this legal suspense novel, attorney Kate Sullivan takes on Mason Pharmaceutical because of a corporate cover-up related to its newest drug. After a whistleblower dies, Kate hires former Army Ranger turned private investigator Landon James to investigate. He believes the death was no random shooting and Kate may be the next target"--
19) Bitter pill
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Sisterhood series volume 32
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"For the Sisterhood, there's a special satisfaction that comes with helping a friend in need, especially when it's someone as dear as Charlotte Hansen. Myra Rutledge's childhood friend has spent tens of thousands of dollars on remedies to boost longevity. But far from improving her health, the medications seem to be destroying it. Myra becomes suspicious of the trio of doctors in charge of the program, especially once the Sisterhood's investigations...
20) Pitino: my story
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On September 26, 2017, the biggest recruiting scandal in college basketball history sent shock waves through the world of sports. Caught up in a massive FBI and NCAA investigation--and the intense media spotlight--was Rick Pitino, the Louisville Cardinals' Hall of Fame coach. Here, from Pitino himself, comes the real story of the ongoing case and the hard truth about how college hoops has been pushed to the brink of disaster by greed, bad actors,...
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