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2) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume Book 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. When the elusive killer's trail turns up in Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Alone.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"James Patterson raises the stakes to their highest level, ever-when Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart--nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses...
6) Sycamore Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mark Darrow returns to Caldwell College 16 years after his graduation when his mentor, Lionel Farr, brings him back to become Caldwell's president. The school is still haunted by the tragic murder of Angela Hall, an African American student who was strangled and left outside the school's landmark spire. Fresh off a football victory, Mark was the one who found Angela, and it was his best friend, Steve, who was convicted of the murder. Now Caldwell...
9) Triple Cross
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families-and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull, calls...
10) Cross kill
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive, a ghost, or something even more sinister?
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of 'lost' stories written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss and published in magazines in the 1950s.
12) Hidden figures
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 3/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
13) Calypso
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sedaris buys a beach house on the Carolina coast and envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun. Life is as idyllic as he imagined, except he realizes that it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. Much of the comedy in his writing is born out of the realization that his body has betrayed him in middle age, and he realizes that the story of his life is made up of more past than future.
14) True stories
Author
Series
Guys read volume 5
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (5 hr.) : digital ; 3 1/4 x 2 in.
Language
English
Description
The fifth installment in the Guys Read library is a collection of essays, biographies, travelogues, and more.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume Book 11
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When he investigates the murder of an actress outside of her Beverly Hills home, FBI agent Alex Cross learns that the attack was the latest in a series of celebrity killings linked to the elusive Mary Smith.
16) Dominic
Author
Publisher
Random House Listening Library
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (CD)(2 hrs. 43 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's time for a change, so Dominic sets off on a journey to see the world. When Dominic encounters members of the Doomsday Gang, he easily foils their attempt to rob him. Legend of his victory quickly spreads, and each new friend Dominic meets tells him a story of their own less-fortunate meeting with the villains, and asks for help from the heroic dog. But can one lone dog bring down an entire band of hooligans?
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 19 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fights to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into thin air; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders. For more than three decades, editor...
18) Live by night
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
19) Sh*t my dad says
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
20) Wild
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir. The story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe, and built her back up again.