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"When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking syndicate from the inside. Meanwhile, in Florida, insurance investigator Randall Knight is called to a private roadside zoo, where a new tiger cub of suspect lineage brought a virus that wiped out all the zoo's tigers....
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 32
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179 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Nancy Drew comes to the aid of the owners of a local dancing school when they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives.
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Hardy Boys adventures volume 7
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When a two-hundred-pound sea turtle goes missing from the Bayport Aquarium, Frank and Joe Hardy investigate, discovering a network of underground tunnels hidden beneath Bayport that is aiding a sinister smuggling ring.
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242 pages ; 23 cm
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In Strangers Talk or Die, Jeff Parker comes to an agreement with Fat Sam Scoby, agent for the Skeleton Creek Cross-Bone rustling syndicate, to smuggle gold bars across the Mexican border. But once Parker is in Mexico, he arranges for the gold, now disguised, to be shipped to a man named Ed Bellows in an attempt to outsmart Scoby. In Cantrell, Tom Cantrell's attempt to rebuild the ranch he started with partner Steve Rogers culminates in a cattle drive...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 2
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Fenton Hardy, the famous private detective and father of the Hardy Boys, asks his sons to help him with his latest case involving a criminal named Snattman and the illegal drug trade smuggling of stolen drugs. Hardy directs Frank and Joe to a house on the cliff, whose location overlooking Barmet Bay offers an excellent vantage point to watch for smugglers. The Hardys are tricked into the house by cries for help, and are trapped for a short time in...
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402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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An assessment of the role of smuggling in establishing American foreign relations traces the activities of illicit importer Charles L. Lawrence against the backdrop of the Civil War, changing views on patriotism, and Congressional tariffs on foreign luxuries.
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Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s?
Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union City, New Jersey, more than a quarter century ago. Now he's unthawed and ready to rumble, and his somewhat addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief," is glad his favorite operative's active again.
Tanner...
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256 pages ; 22 cm
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"From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving...
11) Reapers
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"The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South Africa's neighbors. The arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries makes southern Africa, particularly Botswana, ripe for all sorts of intrigue and illicit activities... 'Orgonise Africa', derived from Wilhelm Reich's popularization of orgone energy and transmogrified by bad science and wishful thinking, is an effort by fanatics to push forward a plan...
12) The marble mask
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Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a fifty-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayor's long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make...
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292 pages ; 22 cm
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"When former party girl and society photographer Theophania Bogart flees to San Francisco to escape a high-profile family tragedy, a series of murders drags her unwillingly out of hiding. In no time at all she discovers she's been providing cover for a sophisticated smuggling operation, she starts to fall for an untrustworthy stranger, and she's knocked out, tied up and imprisoned. The police are sure she's lying. The smugglers are sure she knows...
15) Damascus cover
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Israeli spy, Ari Ben-Zion, haunted by the death of his son, is recalled to Jerusalem after a failed attempt to bring a mole back to Israel alive. Unsure how many of its operatives have been exposed, the Mossad assigns Ari to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist out of Syria. While in Damascus, Ari's loneliness is relieved by Kim, a young American photographer. Within days of his arrival, his mission goes wrong, and to survive, Ari reaches out to a...
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Kindom trilogy volume 1
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x, 453 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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"Jun Ironway -- hacker, con artist, and occasional thief -- has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable...
17) The whisperers
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11 audio discs (12 hrs., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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All manner of drugs, cash and weapons have been smuggled across the border between Maine and Canada. But when a group of former soldiers starts its own smuggling operation, Charlie Parker is brought into the mix. And this time, he'll be forming an unexpected partnership with the Collector.
18) Redback
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216 pages ; 23 cm.
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Eighteen years after a botched undercover operation ended his DEA career, John Marquez is contacted by former colleague Ted Desault who needs his help in taking down criminal mastermind Emrahain Stoval, who is also linked to Marquez's past.
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"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem -- again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 64
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181 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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The art collector who suspects the Hardy boys of stealing one of his valuable paintings offers them a chance to find the painting and the real culprits.
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