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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Author
Language
English
Description
For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. He has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die, and Dillon may be one of them.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Raine Tallentyre always tried to heed her late Aunt Vella's advice-and keep her paranormal abilities a secret. But when she journeys to Shelbyville, Washington, to clear out her aunt's house, Raine's highly developed sensitivity leads her to a horrifying discovery: a young woman is held captive in a basement storage locker. And her kidnapper is on the loose.
Without warning, a new man enters Raine's life-investigator Zack Jones. While Raine hears...
8) Killer view
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming suspects that a dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, and an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may be linked to a masterfully planned domestic terrorist attack.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (7 hr., 54 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Canfield and his star reporters are chasing some red-hot leads. There's only one glitch: the school board has shut down The Slash for exposing the town's most powerful family, and now the staff has to find a way to publish it themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
11) Nightwalker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in Las Vegas, Jessy Sparhawk, desperate for money, places a bet that changes her life forever when, after collecting her winnings, she is drawn into a murder investigation involving a gorgeous PI, an angry ghost, a casino magnate, and a ghost town called Indigo.
13) Déjà vu
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The women of the Sisterhood find life after retirement to be too calm and peaceful, and when they reunite for a celebration in Las Vegas, they're called upon by the president to track down the wanted criminal Hank Jellicoe.
14) The killing edge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychologist specializing in art therapy to help traumatized victims, Chloe Marin, the survivor of a brutal attack ten years earlier, encounters the killer from her past while investigating the disappearance of a young swimsuit model.
16) Winter garden
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
17) Sheba
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
�2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (approximately 360 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the Second World War, as German armies gather to invade Poland, Hitler has hit upon a master plan to distract the British while the blitzkrieg takes place.
18) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (approximately 120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A day in the life of Boston Detective D.D. Warner; seven months pregnant and working as a consultant on the set of a serial killer film shooting in Boston. It seems like a simple job until the former film consultant shows up dead on the set. Extremely pregnant, on the trail of a killer, and surrounded by a hundred and four murder suspects in the middle of a graveyard D.D. must quickly unravel a tangled web of lies to find the killer.
20) Backfire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident.