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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
3) Beguilement
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Mp3 Una
Language
English
Description
With The Sharing Knife series, Bujold creates a brand new world fraught with peril, and spins an extraordinary romance between a young farm girl and the brave sorcerer-soldier entrusted with the defense of the land against a plague of vicious malevolent beings. Meet Fawn Bluefield and Dag Redwing Hickory in Beguilement, the first book in Bujold's unforgettable four-volume fantasy saga, and witness the birth of their dangerous romance-a love threatened...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history....
Author
Language
English
Description
What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? "The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 MP3 discs (32 hours, 23 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jondalar and Ayla are two Ice Age travelers on an uncertain journey. The journey will require them to brave flash floods and glaciers, hungry hyenas and vengeful hunter women, and midnight visions and painful echoes from the past.
Author
Series
Rogue River novellas volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2015
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (2 hr., 52 min.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Solitude, Oregon, everyone has secrets-- and some will kill to keep them. When she believes a teen is falsely accused of drug dealing, social worker Carly Taylor takes on a high-risk case and her estranged husband-- the detective in charge of the investigation-- to prove the boy's innocence. A deadly new designer drug has taken of the small rural town, and Carly is determined to find the real dealer and clear the boy's name. But the deeper she...
9) Cat's paw
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The "Nameless Detective" investigates thefts of several exotic animals from San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo.
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.
Author
Series
Lost chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (12 hr., 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Raistlin Majere has become a Black Robe wizard and travels to Nebraska, the lord city of the Dark Queen, ostensibly to work for her, though in reality he means to further his own quest for power. But Takhisis finds out that the dragon orb has entered her city and sends her draconians to find and destroy the wizard who has it in his possession.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (MP3-CD) (22 hr., 5 min.) : digital ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder. She finds...