Dick Hill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 14
Language
English
Description
Reacher arrives accidentally in a small South Dakota town, where during a dangerous winter storm he is enlisted to protect a lone witness who local police hope can help convict a brutal crime ring.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former army cop Jack Reacher finds himself questioning the instincts that made him an elite soldier when his latest case forces him to choose between obeying the law and becoming a renegade.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
13 CDs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME!
On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and as fast as she could. But she never forgot the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family. And she never forgot their spoiled son, who, with his two...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment.Using court records, public documents, official correspondence,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Language
English
Description
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher finds himself in a race to save the life of vice president-elect Brook Armstrong when he agrees, as a favor to a friend, to attempt to infiltrate the Secret Service protection around Armstrong in order to detect any holes in the system, not knowing a real assassin is trying to accomplish the same task.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
279 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death and his wife left to die. As if this didn't present enough problems for Police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign. This one tangible clue could also inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.
10) Branch Rickey
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever. Rickey's is the classic American tale of a poor boy from Ohio whose deep-seated faith and dogged work ethic took him to the pinnacle of success, earning him a place in the Hall...
11) Kerplunk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the latest hilarious collection of folksy, humorous, and wonderfully wise stories about country life from the bestselling author of The Blight Way.Patrick F. McManus has garnered legions of faithful fans with his monthly column in Outdoor Life and his many celebrated books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Grasshopper Trap and The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw. The humor and warmth of Kerplunk! put the book right up there with the...