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Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
41 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
An alien orphan from the planet Krypton crash lands on Earth, and is adopted by a human couple--one day he will become Superman, defender of the people of Earth.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
524) Obeying Laws
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Laws are rules that we must follow. Obeying the law is a key part of being a responsible citizen. In this low-level text, young readers will learn what laws are and why it is important to obey them. Special features visually reinforce the text and ask readers to answer a thought-provoking question.
525) Jury Duty
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Jury duty is an important part of being a responsible citizen. It helps ensure that trials are fair and just. In this low-level text, beginning readers will learn about the importance of juries and how they work. Special features teach readers about the qualifications of jury members and show the difference between a world with and without jury duty.
526) Blind eye
Author
Series
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
517 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Number One bestselling detective series. Nothing keeps a crime hidden like fear, and DS Logan McRae hits a dead-end in this 5th crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. 'You can't be an eyewitness if I cut out your eyes...' Someone's preying on Aberdeen's growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared...
Author
Series
Bo Tully volume 6
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
vii, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, has dealt with small-town crime throughout his long, storied career. Now, contemplating retirement after years on the job, Tully is faced with perhaps his most perplexing case yet. When area bald eagles start getting picked off by a ghost-like killer, and when a prominent local rancher is murdered by an arrow with eagle fletching, things gets complicated fast. In this fast-paced whodunit, Tully has a vast...
531) Pay or play
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paying a harsh self-imposed penance for a terrible misstep on a case, former LAPD superstar detective Charlie Waldo lives a life of punishing minimalism deep within the woods, making a near religion of his commitment to owning no more than One Hundred Things. At least, he's trying to. His PI girlfriend Lorena keeps drawing him back to civilization - even though every time he compromises on his principles, something goes wrong. And unfortunately for...
532) I am the Cheese
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
222 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
105 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Bruce Wayne is at an event, a crime wave hits Gotham City, and the reader must help Batman choose which supervillain to go after, and how he should proceed.
534) Shadow in the glass
Author
Series
Greer Hogan mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Librarian Greer Hogan is on hand to celebrate her old friend Sarah Whitaker's nuptials at the Whitaker summer home on beautiful Mirror Lake, just outside the upstate New York village of Lake Placid. But Greer has an ulterior motive--to gather information that could reopen the investigation into her husband's murder, a crime for which she believes an innocent man went to prison. Her plans come to a shuddering halt when a wedding guest goes missing...
535) Batman vs. Catwoman
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
49 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a priceless, jewel encrusted bird statue is installed atop a skyscraper in Gotham, Catwoman and the Penguin have their eyes on the prize, and it is up to Batman to stop them from stealing the jewels.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Parrot's Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her "previous life"--the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but she anguishes over reliving the horrific events of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break...
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,...