Catalog Search Results
1) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most...
Author
Series
A song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Formats
Description
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity's desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon--but does silence promise the nightmare's end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness...
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
The latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which Amy emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus.
7) The son
Author
Language
English
Description
"Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches,...
Author
Series
Earth's children) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 568 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.
10) Galloway
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flagon and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. They found a big, wide, lonely country and, at first, plenty of room. Then Bull Dunn and his two sons decided they wanted it all. When the battle for possession of the land began, Flagon was already in bad shape. He had been taken by Apache Indians, and by the time he escaped, just surviving left him in no condition for any kind of trouble. Bull Dunn's son, Curly, was...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xviii, 157 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
R.K. Narayan draws on the work of eleventh-century Tamil poet Kamban and recounts it with the narrative flair of a master novelist. The Ramayan is a sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe thronged with heroes, deities, and demons thrilling readers since the fourth century B.C.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (17 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
EspaƱol
Description
"Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias mas fascinates del siglo veinte. Millones de ejemplares de Cien anos de soledad leidos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronado una obra que se habia abierto pas a "boca a boca" -- como gusta decir el escritor -- son la mas palpable demonstracion de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendia-Iguaran,...
13) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Language
English
Description
While Roland the Gunslinger and his companions leap between worlds, he relates his experiences with the elusive, powerful emotion of love in a journey into his own past
14) The Odyssey
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. Includes pronouncing glossary.
15) Dust to dust
Author
Series
Prophecy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faced with the imminent end of the world, Scott Bryant, an ordinary man with superhuman strength, and Melanie Regan, who has been experiencing terrifying visions of future events, join forces in an epic battle of good against evil.
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Gilgamesh epic is one of the world's oldest and most important legends. Gilgamesh is a terrible tyrant. When he orders his subjects to build a great wall, the exhausted people are in despair. But the evil king meets the "uncivilized" Enkidu, and learns lessons of friendship and true humanity that will change him forever.