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2) Unstoppable
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer with his hotel-developer father in Puerto Rico, seventeen-year-old Lucas turns to a legendary cursed girl filled with poison when his girlfriend mysteriously disappears.
4) Killer chef
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Chef and police officer Caleb Rooney searches for a murderer who kills by poison at top New Orleans restaurants.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Soraya, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, has lived eighteen years in the shadows but as her twin brother's wedding approaches, she faces choices with unimaginable consequences.
8) Shadowscent
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and seventeen-year-old Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death; Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard; now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned Rakel and Ash smell like the chief...