Library Greetings: Round out the holidays with a good read

For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Mercy's disappearance left behind a damaged family that later shattered beyond repair when Atlee's parents, without explanation, abandoned her.

Now, after a risky investigation that nearly proved fatal, Atlee has finally discovered not only the reason behind her parents' abandonment and Mercy's kidnapping, but also the most promising breakthrough yet: proof that Mercy survived her abduction and then escaped her captors many years ago.

Though Atlee is tantalizingly close to her family at last, the final leg of her long road to Mercy will be the most treacherous yet. Mercy left at least one dead body behind before fleeing her captors years before. Atlee has no idea if her sister is still alive, and if so, how she has been surviving all this time.

When the truth is finally revealed, Atlee Pine will face the greatest danger yet, and it may well cost her everything. FBI Agent Atlee Pine's harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in Mercy a thriller from author David Baldacci.

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun--until he comes upon a curious scene.

A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel.

The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader, who has burrowed his influence deep into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days.

The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark. Reacher is good at finding people who don't want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own.

But a life hangs in the balance. Maybe more than one. But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life.

Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead. Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new thriller Better Off Dead bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he's encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America's institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington.

Meanwhile, when Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the agency's database for sensitive information on Nicholas Ward, the world's first trillionaire, she convinces Rapp to take a job protecting him.

In doing so, he finds himself walking an impossible tightrope: Keep the man alive, but also use him as bait to uncover a traitor who has seemingly unlimited access to government secrets.

Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order in the thriller Enemy at the Gate by author Vince Flynn.