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1) Seeker
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 1
Language
English
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
Genius Files volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The wackiest road trip in history continues as the McDonald twins travel the Southwest dodging nefarious villains and visiting weird but true American landmarks"--
3) 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.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Genius twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a trip to Graceland and are horrified by the reappearance of their supposedly deceased arch nemesis Dr. Herman Warsaw, who marries their aunt Judy.
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"--
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"--
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.
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.
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.
11) Sing me to sleep
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Saoirse Sorkova, a murderous siren whose very existence is illegal, is forced to work with the prince she hates to hunt a deadly killer--herself.
12) Wicked saints
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
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In The Winter Soldier: Cold Front, on-sale on February 7, 2023, New York Times best-selling author Mackenzi Lee explores the youth of one of Marvel’s most compelling characters, James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes-and the enemy soldier he is forced to become.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams". The man is a scammer, his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir- furious enough to hire assassins. Monkey decides to try and save Samir from the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Meet Elektra Natchios. This intriguing young woman has played equally intriguing roles throughout her life: Gymnast. Martial artist. Ninja. Assassin! Trained in the deadliest of arts and renowned as the world's finest killer, Elektra remains an enigma even to herself. An unconscious woman washes ashore off the coast of a small Central American country. Two policemen are strangled. A diplomat is assassinated. A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is brutally dismembered....
17) 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
Genius Files volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Assassin's heart
Author
Series
Assassin's heart volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
20) Graceling
Author
Series
Language
English
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Fantastical Fiction - YA
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In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
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