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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first volume of John Jakes's acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship threatened by the divisions of the Civil War In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American War, but their closeness is...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
16 audio discs (ca. 18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dead Sleep:Jordan Glass wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow patrons eying her with curiosity. Minutes later, she stumbles upon a gallery containing a one-artist exhibition called "The Sleeping Women." Collectors have come to believe that the canvases depict female nudes not in sleep but in death. When Jordan approaches the last work in the series, she freezes. The face in the painting seems to be her own. In fact, the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (13 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While working as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman as a means of paying for his college tuition, seventeen-year-old Lemuel Altick witnesses the double assassination of two clients to whom he's about to close a sale. Surprised by Lemuel's presence, the assassin forces Lemuel to become complicit in the murder an event that instigates Lemuel's exposure to the previously hidden underworld surrounding him. Soon, Lemuel must contend with a boss involved...
11) Dead connection
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Following the murders of two young women, with both cases possibly linked to a popular online dating service, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher undertakes a special undercover assignment to lure a killer targeting single Manhattan women.
Author
Language
English
Description
For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. He has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die, and Dillon may be one of them.
13) Love Only Once
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The exquisite niece of Lord Edward and Lady Charlotte Malory, Regina Ashton is outraged over her abduction by the arrogant, devilishly handsome Nicholas Eden-and is determined to make the rogue pay . . . with his heart.
A golden-haired seducer, Nicholas has been hardened by a painful secret in his past. And now that he has besmirched Reggie's good name, the hot-tempered lady has vowed to wed him. Her fiery beauty stirs Nicholas as no woman ever has-and...
14) Mad Dash
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dash leaves her husband after an argument over keeping a dog found on their doorstep. However, she isn't so sure what she wants to do with her life or if she really wants to leave her husband for good.
15) Sizzle and burn
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Language
English
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Description
Lonely and reluctant psychic Raine Tallentyre is targeted for recruitment into the secret Arcane Society by fellow psychic Zack Jones, an effort that is complicated by Raine's painful memories of how the organization shattered her family through an act of betrayal.
17) Killer view
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming suspects that a dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, and an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may be linked to a masterfully planned domestic terrorist attack.
18) Laguna heat
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas--where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
27 sound discs (ca. 31 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lie down with lions: An American man, a French physician, and a English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
Eye of the needle: One enemy spy knows the secret if the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer...