Andrew Klavan
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime ... but something doesn't quite add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan--how could a beloved son of this tight-knit burgh commit...
Author
Series
Homelanders volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
High school student Charlie West awakens bloody and bruised in a concrete bunker, only to discover that he has lost a year of his life and remembers nothing about escaping from prison after being convicted of murdering his former best friend, or why he is being pursued by both the law and a group of terrorists trying to bring down the government of the United States.
Author
Series
Homelanders volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When eighteen-year-old Charlie West finds the one person who knows what happened to him a year earlier, he learns that remembering is painful as well as dangerous, and figuring out what to do with the new knowledge may be his toughest challenge yet.
Author
Series
Homelanders volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As eighteen-year-old Charlie West continues to elude the law and the group of terrorists looking for him, he tries to remember what happened a year ago and find out who has framed him so he can clear his name.
Author
Series
Homelanders volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Time is short, but eighteen-year-old Charlie West has one last chance to stop the Homelanders from attacking when he finally gets back enough of his memory to realize when the terrorists are going to strike next.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Endeavoring to safeguard an angel-faced prostitute who fled after being tortured by psychopathic killer John Foy, private detective Scott Weiss struggles to outmaneuver Foy's equally determined effort to re-capture the terror-stricken woman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Hired by a political candidate who wants to reclaim his wild daughter from the hot-headed leader of a motorcycle gang, private investigators Jim Bishop and Scott Weiss find themselves unprepared for the gang leader's ruthless intellect.
10) True crime
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A death-row thriller in which a reporter discovers at the last moment that a condemned man is innocent. The novel follows the reporter's attempt to save the man's life, while minute-by-minute preparations for the execution go ahead. By the author of Corruption.
11) Dynamite road
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
While trying to rein in ruthless operative Jim Bishop, ex-cop-turned-P.I. Scott Weiss becomes involved in the investigation into a series of linked killings that seem to be the work of his old nemesis Shadowman.
13) If we survive
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.
14) The identity man
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, smalltime criminal Shannon goes on the run, receives an enigmatic text message, is captured and taken to a laboratory where he's given a new face, a new name, and a new life, courtesy of the mysterious "identity man," and finds work as a carpenter. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It seems that lots of crooked people--including cops, politicians, and gangsters--want...
Author
Series
Another kingdom volume 3
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Having survived the Nightmare Feast, Austin Lively is living the dream. He has returned to Hollywood and his movie career is in full swing. His new script, Another Kingdom, has been unexpectedly purchased by a top producer at an enormous price. Beautiful women flock to his bed, movie stars court his attention, and the powers-that-be are predicting stardom. His only problems: a recurring vision of a magical landscape he can't quite remember, and a...
16) Hostage run
Author
Series
MindWar trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"Rick Dial is faced with an impossible choice: save the life of his best friend Molly. or save the free world. Rick Dial's career as a superstar quarterback ended when a car accident left him unable to walk. But his uncanny gaming ability caught the attention of a secret government organization trying to stop a high tech terrorist attack on America. He's been to the fantastical cyber world called the MindWar Realm. and returned to Real Life victorious....
Author
Series
Another kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Austin Lively, once just an out-of-luck Hollywood screenwriter, is now a chosen hero caught between two worlds and dual quests in both Los Angeles, California, and the magical medieval world of Galiana. Tasked with taking a talisman across the Eleven Lands to restore the rightful queen to her throne, Austin must evade a murderous, vengeance-seeking wizard who seems to have the Eleven Lands under his control. But just how far does his influence reach,...
18) Werewolf cop
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he's a soft-spoken homicide detective from Houston known for his integrity and courage under fire. He serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster who has taken over the American underworld. In a centuries old forest, under a full moon, a beast assaults him, cursing him forever... transforming him into something deadly.......
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus. Andrew Klavan believed what he read in the Gospels, but he often struggled to understand what Jesus really meant. So he began a journey of wrestling with the beautiful and often strange words of Jesus. He learned Greek in order to read the Gospels in their original language, and he vowed to set aside any preconceptions about what the Scriptures say. But it wasn't until he...
20) Game over
Author
Series
MindWar trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Rick emerged victorious from The Realm twice. Is his luck about to run out?"--