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1) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a
2) The Chateau
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. Part classic noir thriller, part fabulist fable, it is the story of Sweeney and his comatose son, Danny. Hoping for a miracle, Sweeney has brought Danny to the fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have "resurrected" patients who were similarly lost in the void. but the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a comic book world beloved by Danny...
Author
Series
Bowditch volume 1
Language
English
Description
Desperate and alone, game warden Mike Bowditch strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive--Mike's father. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer--which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.
Author
Series
The Clifton chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A first installment of a planned five-part series introduces the character of 1920s Bristol dock worker Harry Clifton, whose unexpected scholarship leads him to pursue a very different life while uncovering the truth about his father's identity.
9) Onion John
Author
Pub. Date
[1959]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
10) Outlaw
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A father and his son leave Atlanta for Australia and find themselves taken as slaves by a savage, unknown jungle tribe.
11) The king of lies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jackson Workman Pickens-known to most as Work-mindlessly holds together his life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife, and a fragile sister, Jean, damaged by the shared past they've endured. And then Ezra's body is discovered. Set to inherit his father's fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect. But so does Jean. Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with...
12) Iced
Author
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
230 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.
18) Wintering
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Eide family finds themselves changed forever after their elderly, demented patriarch runs into the wilderness of northern Minnesota in an attempt to reenact a similar adventure sixty years earlier.
20) A hat for Ivan
Author
Publisher
Crossway Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
28 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
On "Hatday," Ivan expects his father the hatmaker to present him with a hat that matches his character and talents, but he becomes confused when the other villagers also give him headgear more appropriate to their own interests.