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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The lives of 91-year-old Ira Levinson, young cowboy Luke, and Wake Forest College senior Sophia Danko converge in an extraordinary and unexpected way as Ira clings to his wife Ruth's words and his memories and Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans.
2) Memory man
Author
Language
English
Description
"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
3) Polar shift
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Landmark Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2005
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of how to artificially create a polar shift is used by an antiglobalization group to give the industrial nations a jolt, planning to reverse it when their message has been received. But it can't be reversed, and this time the NUMA team may be too late.
Author
Series
Millennium trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world's first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time--a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.
6) Cross
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after his wife Maria is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner, John Sampson, who wants his help on a case that reveals a connection to Maria's death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family in Charleston, South Carolina, until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friendship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When a corporate scandal leads to a boy's mysterious disappearance, the wife of a fugitive businessman assumes that her husband is accountable, only to learn that the consequences of corporate misdeeds can be a matter of life and death.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
10) Take one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison come to Hollywood to make a film with a great spiritual message, but are waylaid by a temperamental actress, a botched production schedule, and their own insecurities as producers.
12) Innocent
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-two years after being exonerated for the murder of his mistress, Rusty Sabich, now an appellate court judge, comes under suspicion again when his wife dies, apparently from natural causes, but Rusty chooses to keep her death a secret for a full day.
13) Night and day
Author
Series
Jesse Stone volume 8
Language
English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including a Peeping Town, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school.
14) The book of lies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unexpected meeting with his long-lost father thrusts Cal Harper into a high-stakes pursuit of an enigmatic weapon linked to a pair of murders--the killing of Cain in the Bible, and the murder that inspired the creation of the comic-book hero Superman.
15) Breaking point
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees.
16) Someone to love
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still grieving three years after his fiancee's mysterious suicide, Jace Montgomery discovers a clue about her death that leads him to purchase an English fortress, where he encounters a headstrong ghost who died under similar circumstances.
17) Short straw
Author
Language
English
Description
Having married the seductive Barbara Kennedy against his better judgment, Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to discover that his wife has vanished and that all of his money has been wired to Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the help of FBI Special Agent Connor Shields, archaeologist Daria McGowan probes the disappearance of some priceless ancient artifacts, and discovers that many of the private collectors who bought them illegally have met brutal, bizarre ends.
Author
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
14 CDs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former CIA agent David Webb leads a quiet life as a university professor until he becomes a target of an assasin and is framed for the murders of two close friends, and as he fights for his life, he finds himself under the control of his alternate personality--Jason Bourne.
20) Hard truth
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 1/2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennsylvania to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents' deaths, Lorna Temple joins forces with private detective T. J. Dawson in a twenty-year-old case involving the disappearance of two children.