Edoardo Ballerini
21) The lost colony
Author
Series
Long Winter volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hours and 15 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Can humanity survive on a new world? On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid.
The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld--Eos--seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers--from the Carthage--have disappeared. Their settlement is still there,...
22) Ratscalibur
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (3 hr., 36 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
After being bitten by a rat, Joey undergoes an amazing transformation. Now a three-inch-tall rodent, he feels it necessary to protect his rodent friends from the evil crows.
23) Winter world
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new ice age on Earth. A mysterious object in space. And a desperate mission to save humanity from extinction
Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive the new ice age. Nations prepare to go to war for the world's last habitable zones. NASA and other scientific...
24) The solar war
Author
Series
Long Winter volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hr., 15 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They decimated Earth during the Long Winter. Now the Grid has returned, and they won t stop until the human race is extinct. On a ruined world, humanity s last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything. We thought the war was over. We were wrong. After the Long Winter, Emma Matthews and James Sinclair hoped...
26) Instinct
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
�2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (426 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally -- he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene -- along with a threatening message from the killer -- it looks like someone has been taking notes. Elizabeth Needham is the headstrong and brilliant NYPD Detective in charge of the case who recruits Dylan to help investigate another souvenir left at the scene...
27) Inland: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 21
Language
English
Description
"The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order.
Author
Publisher
Boni
Pub. Date
1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
235 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...
31) Dust
Author
Series
Publisher
NLA Digital, LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
WOOL introduced the silo and its inhabitants.
SHIFT told the story of their making.
DUST will chronicle their undoing.
Welcome to the underground.
32) Leaves of grass
Author
Series
Modern Library college editions volume T40
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, began as Walt Whitman's collection of twelve unnamed poems, unique for their irregular line lengths and lack of rhyme. Whitman spent the remainder of his life re-writing the work, and republished the collection several times until it finally numbered over 400 poems. Leaves of Grass represents Whitman's views on life and philosophy, and love, and features some of his best known and loved poems including "O...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
337 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jess Walter infuses his tightly plotted novels with a unique brand of mordant humor that has earned him a loyal and growing fan base. His sixth novel, Beautiful Ruins chronicles an unlikely romance that begins in 1962 along the Italian coast. The love affair wanes, only to be rekindled in Hollywood 50 years later.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star. She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train through the northern Rocky Mountains and, with little local interest, put into a dead file. But she was not alone. When Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint FBI-BCA violent crime...
35) The Stolen Ones
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam Pub Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Reprint
Physical Desc
371 pages
Language
English
Description
The blistering new novel from the author of the multi-award-nominated The Professionals-"Laukkanen is one of the best young thriller writers working today" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). When you've got nothing left, you've got nothing left to lose. Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of a diner on a rainy summer evening, and a few minutes later, he's lying dead in the mud. When BCA agent Kirk Stevens arrives on the scene, he discovers...
Author
Series
NYPD Red volume 7
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. Join the NYPD Red team in their most explosive case ever. The series from James Patterson and Marshall Karp has always been a must-read. But Karp's latest, NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority, tops them all, making it a must-read-now! Lower Manhattan: A sniper's bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 p., [8] p. of plates ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renowned historian Stephen Greenblatt's works shoot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. With The Swerve, Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.
38) The quantum spy
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
575 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb: whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption in existence, effectively owning the digital world. The question is: Who will build it first, the United States or China? The latest of David Ignatius's timely, sharp-eyed espionage novels follows CIA agent Harris Chang into a quantum research lab compromised by a suspected Chinese informant. The breach provokes a mole...
39) The fifth to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
526 p.
Language
English
Description
"In the thrilling sequel to The Fourth Monkey, a new serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago, while Detective Porter delves deeper into the dark past of the Four Monkey Killer. Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When Paolo the dachshund finally escapes the hair salon where he lives, he has adventures beyond his wildest dreams amid the beauty and culture of Rome.