Jonathan Davis
1) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2007], c2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (4 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Luke Garner has spent his entire life-all 12 years-in hiding. The government has outlawed families with more than two children. As the Garners' third child, Luke's very life is in danger. When Luke meets Jen, another "shadow child," he begins to question the government's policies. Other Recorded Books by acclaimed author Margaret Peterson Haddix include Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey and Just Ella.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the most shocking scenario of our time, former Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata takes you inside a brilliantly conceived, brutally executed plot to overthrow our government-from within . . .
"How do you overturn an election?" It's a question that has obsessed presidential candidate Jamie Carter ever since her loss to businessman and political neophyte President Jack Smart. In spite of the election results, she's determined to take what she sees...
Author
Series
Atherton volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Atherton's three-tiered world collapses, ending the geographical division of the social classes, Edgar, Samuel, and Isabel try to restore the flow of water and uncover the world's mysterious origins in the process.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Other Men's Horses, newlywed Texas Ranger Andy Pickard must track down Donley Bannister, on the run after killing a notorious horse thief. But when outlaws ambush Ranger Pickard, Bannister risks his life to rescue his pursuer-giving the injured young ranger reason to pause.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1967]
Physical Desc
284 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though they've lived their entire lives less than five blocks from each other, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders exist in very different worlds. Reuven blends easily into both his secular Jewish faith and his typical American teen life, while Danny's conservative Hasidic clothes and appearance make him stick out in any crowd. Their improbable friendship teaches them that the differences separating people through cultures and generations are never as...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Weschler sets Oliver Sacks's brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks's capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A sweeping, provocative new look at the pivotal years leading up to the American Revolution The Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence, but several years earlier in 1773. In this gripping history, Derek W. Beck reveals the full story of the war before American independence-from both sides. Spanning the years 1773-1775 and drawing on new material from meticulous research and previously unpublished documents, letters, and...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the auto magnate's attempt to recreate small-town America, along with a rubber plantation, in the heart of the Amazon details the clash between Ford and the jungle and its inhabitants, as the tycoon attempted to force his will on the natural world.
13) The dark planet
Author
Series
Atherton volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of the planet Atherton, Edgar must journey to a dark and damaged world named Earth in order to find the secrets of his civilization's past.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
James M. McPherson, professor emeritus of U.S. history at Princeton, is one of the foremost scholars of the Civil
War. In this informative and meticulously researched masterpiece, he clarifies the differing ways of life and philosophy
that led to this shattering conflict. Abraham Lincoln wondered whether "in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government."
Jefferson Davis felt "forced to take up arms" to guarantee his states'...
16) Judas
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the bestselling A Tale of Love and Darkness.Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hard Trail to Follow is the seventh novel in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed "Texas Ranger" series from Elmer Kelton
Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch...
18) Badger boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The Texas Frontier 1865. The Civil War is over and Texas is yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. Rusty Shannon finds that the Rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to find his girl married.
19) Texas vendetta
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Andy, a young Texas Ranger, joins forces with Farley, a Confederate soldier turned ranger, to deliver a prisoner to stand trial for murder, but the two lawmen soon find themselves in the middle of two warring families.
Author
Series
A novel of the Texas Rangers volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having finished Texas Standoff, seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton-the Western Writers of America's "Best Western Writer of All Time"-took his leave with 50 notches on his gunbelt of classics. When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent cattlemen are prime suspects. But the rise of a gang of masked vigilantes and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman complicate matters....