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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.
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...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's been two months since Travis's family moved to a development so new that it seems totally unreal. His parents are working harder now, to pay for it all, and Travis is left to fend for himself.
There's one place, though, where Travis can still connect with his old life: the Salinas library. Travis and his family used to go there together every Saturday, but now he bikes to it alone, re-reading his favorite books.
It's only natural that Travis...
7) After dark
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hours, 23 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life is tough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work in Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, a very low budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn't going well. Stuff keeps happening. Take the dead body that she discovered in the sarcophagus exhibit. Who needed that? Finding out that her new client, Emmett London,...
8) Hot rocks
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs., 33 mins) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her notorious past catches up with Laine Tavish, proprietor of the antique shop Remember When, it's up to her and an enigmatic stranger named Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her-and why.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.
Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena?s body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our...
10) Nightwalker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in Las Vegas, Jessy Sparhawk, desperate for money, places a bet that changes her life forever when, after collecting her winnings, she is drawn into a murder investigation involving a gorgeous PI, an angry ghost, a casino magnate, and a ghost town called Indigo.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Krewe of Hunters, there was Harrison Investigations. Be thrilled by this classic paranormal romantic suspense by the queen of the genre, New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
When Sarah McKinley is finally able to buy and restore the historic Florida mansion that she has always loved, she dismisses the horror stories of past residents vanishing and a long-dead housekeeper who practiced black magic. Then, in the midst of renovations,...
12) Vanishing act
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The news that Harry Wong, a supporter of the Sisterhood, has had his identity stolen sets the sisters on the trail of the perpetrator to exercise their own particular brand of vigilante justice.
14) Dead or alive
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving intelligence from the Campus that the world's most threatening terrorist has been tracked to a specific location, Jack Ryan, Jr., the organization's latest recruits, and his cousins embark on a dangerous mission to capture him.
15) The killing edge
Author
Language
English
Description
A psychologist specializing in art therapy to help traumatized victims, Chloe Marin, the survivor of a brutal attack ten years earlier, encounters the killer from her past while investigating the disappearance of a young swimsuit model.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (7 hours, 45 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wolf Mackenzie lives a quiet life, away from the townsfolk who once wrongly accused him of a crime. But everything changes when he meets Mary Elizabeth Potter, his son's headstrong schoolteacher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 MP3 discs (32 hours, 23 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jondalar and Ayla are two Ice Age travelers on an uncertain journey. The journey will require them to brave flash floods and glaciers, hungry hyenas and vengeful hunter women, and midnight visions and painful echoes from the past.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
29 sound discs (35 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Tale of Two Cities: The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have been cruelly abused by the Marquis de St. Evremonde and his brother. To ensure Dr. Manette's silence, the Marquis has him confined for eighteen years in the Bastille. The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens....
19) Winter garden
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Language
English
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Description
Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie's reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.