Johnny Heller
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (3 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being framed by a jealous poodle, a dachshund is left for dead, but comes back with a group of mutts from the National Last Ditch Dog Depository to disrupt the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog show and exact revenge on Cassius the poodle.
6) Heat wave
Author
Series
Nikki Heat volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Formats
Description
NYPD detective Nikki Heat must deal with the continual presence of magazine journalist Jameson Rook as she works to solve the murder of a real estate magnate.
Author
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first in a line of Animal Rescues chapter books, Dog Finds Lost Dolphins will be a tale you'll not soon forget. In this charm- ing and awe-inspiring story you'll meet Cloud, the black lab with a nose for rescue. She's the only dog certified to sniff out stranded dolphins. Cloud can sniff out a dolphin over a mile off the coast of the Florida Keys. She's even become friends with them, waiting on the dock for them to pop up and give her
...8) Thrill kill
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cops in Oakland seldom meet people whose lives are going well. That's certainly the case when homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair recognizes the dead woman hanging from a tree as a teenage runaway named Dawn he arrested ten years before. And as Sinclair and his partner, Cathy Braddock, soon learn, many of Dawn's clients, not to mention the local and federal officials who protect them, will go to any length to keep the police from digging too deep into...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
302 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Information kidnaps the President's daughter, it is up to twelve-year-old Ruby, also known as Pufferfish, to use her super-nanobyte-enhanced allergies in leading the NERDS' investigation.
Author
Series
NERDS volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a virus infects Arlington, Virginia, home of NERDS headquarters, transforming victims into criminal masterminds, it is up to Flinch to stop its spread by miniaturizing himself and entering the head of the Villain Virus's creator, Heathcliff Hodges.
12) Roberto & Me
Author
Series
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
180 p.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes you can change history... and sometimes history can change you. When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he's got only one goal: warning Roberto not to get on the doomed plane that will end his life in a terrible crash. In the sixties, Stosh meets free-spirited Sunrise, and together they travel across the country to a ball game that leaves them breathless-and face-to-face...
13) Ted & me
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Stosh travels back in time to 1941 in hopes of preventing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, he meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.
Author
Publisher
Harper San Francisco
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
277 p.
Language
English
Description
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British...
Author
Series
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
387 pages; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin. A few surgeries and some intensive...
16) Boot & Shoe
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed, but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hrs..) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian. Though Brian's only responsibility used to be his adored Harry, Pam came with accessories that could not have been more exotic to the city-loving bachelor: a home in suburbia, two young daughters, two dogs, two cats, two rabbits, and a portly, snow white, red-crowned-and-wattled step-rooster named Buddy. While Buddy loves...
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Josh Jones feels the added responsibility, when his grandfather and uncle sign over the family farm to him.
19) The breakthrough
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
v, 387 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boone Drake, the youngest bureau chief in Chicago Police history, has to choose between being with his wife, who desperately needs him, or pursuing a human trafficking ring to China.
20) The brotherhood
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
v, 371 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.