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Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"--
2) Seeker
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a Seeker, Quin Kincaid, fifteen, learns that she will be using the ancient artifacts and sacred knowledge as an assassin.
Author
Series
Something dark and holy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war.
Author
Series
Killing November volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Surviving a few weeks at the world's most lethal boarding school was one thing. But now comes the real test: Can November Adley find her missing father before her enemies find her? Subterfuge is the name of the game in this thrilling sequel to Killing November.
5) Disruptor
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Quin has spent her life as her father's pawn. She was trained to kill and manipulated to guarantee her family's power. And now that she's broken free of that life, she's found herself trapped again, hostage to a plot that has been centuries in the making. It's taken generations for the pieces to come together, and finally all is in place. Her best friend Shinobu's mind has been corrupted, the Young Dread has aligned with her...
Author
Series
Midnight thief novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
"Kyra, a highly skilled seventeen-year-old thief, joins a guild of assassins with questionable motives. Tristam, a young knight, fights against the vicious Demon Riders that are ravaging the city"--
8) Rogue
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ember Hill, a member of the dragon organization Talon, along with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues, sets out to rescue Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved Ember from a Talon assassin. A reckoning's brewing-- and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
10) I am the traitor
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After breaking free of The Program, Boy Nobody is on a mission of his own to reclaim his life and rescue his friend Howard from the secret organization that has turned him and other orphaned children into trained assassins--but he has no idea who, if anyone, he can trust, or what the consequences will be if he succeeds in bringing down The Program.
Author
Series
Black Widow (Margaret Stohl) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
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 teenager Ava has become from a threat from the past--and possibly from S.H.I.E.L.D itself.
12) Boy Nobody
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.
13) Killing November
Author
Series
Killing November volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A murder at an elite boarding school makes one new girl a target.
15) Queen of shadows
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Queen's secret volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Cal and Lilac are forced to face dark forces apart, the strength of their love--and their kingdom--are put to the ultimate test.
17) Fate breaker
Author
Series
Realm breaker volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Armed with Taristan's sword, the only Spindleblade left in existence, Corayne must stop him and Queen Erida from bringing forth their demon god to destroy the world"--
Author
Series
Monstrous devices volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.
Author
Series
Murder Complex series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate, fifteen-year-old Meadow, trained by her father to kill and survive in any situation, falls in love with Zephyr, a government assassin.
20) Impostors
Author
Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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 close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
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