Catalog Search Results
85) Deadline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Already coping with battle fatigue following his return from Afghanistan, journalist Dawson Scott receives a tip he cannot ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for forty years.
Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call...
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
Language
English
Description
"During their senior year of college, Shay Evans and her best friend Laurel escaped from a violent, magnetic man and his equally violent views about women and society. Eight years later, Shay has built a new life for herself. But the horrifying news of Laurel's death shatters her world and makes her suspect that the people from her past are back and more dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of a true-crime podcast host, Shay is determined to find...
88) Punching the air
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
Author
Series
Hundred-Year-Old Man volume 1
Language
English
Description
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving,...
90) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Whoever said living well is the best revenge never met the Sisterhood...
Together, the seven fearless friends known as The Sisterhood have served sweet justice to villains who thought they were above the law. But payback has its price, and the Sisterhood's last assignment almost landed them in jail. Now the women are fugitives with a bounty on their heads, but they're not planning on hiding out for long—not when good friends need the
...91) Witch hunt
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Pursued by three obsessed detectives, an assassin known as Witch undertakes an assignment with global ramifications that forces those who are investigating her to follow leads within the highest ranks of international law and finance.
92) The key-lock man
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A posse is after Matt Keelock, but he is playing Injun with them.
Author
Series
John Madden novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
In 1932 retired police inspector John Madden's peaceful life is thrown into chaos when a teenager is found brutally murdered in his quiet Surrey village. Madden challenged the official report's statement that it was the work of a wandering vagrant. His investigation shows that the Germans are also looking for a serial killer who is responsible for a half-dozen slayings in Bavaria and Prussia and has the same appetite for adolescent girls. Could a...
94) Last ride
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Kev, a fugitive who has committed a violent crime, takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. As father and son journey into the outback and an unknown future, Chook is forced to make the choice between what is right and the love of his father.
95) Child of God
Author
Publisher
Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that pumbs the depths of human degradation. Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard-- a violent, dispossessed man who haunts the hill country of East Tennessee-- is released from jail and allowed to roam...
96) Satori
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a prequel to Trevanian's "Shibumi," amid the chaos of the Korean War, the CIA offers Nicholai Hel his freedom only if he kills the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China in Beijing, a mission that draws on all his strengths.
97) Suspect
Author
Language
English
Description
After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
John, a daring renegade outlaw steals the sheriff's wife. The sheriff follows in hot pursuit, but sparks begin to fly between Molly and John. (1st film). A falsely accused cowboy and a wronged Indian woman take revenge on a corrupt frontier town (2nd film).