Norbert Leo Butz
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Language
English
Description
"Malcolm Gephardt, a handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger success, but quickly realizes that making margins won't be easy. His smart and confident wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career. After years of trying to have...
Author
Language
English
Description
Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
Author
Series
Jack Blank adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Jack Blank learned that he came from the amazing country of the Imagine Nation, he's known that his fate could go down two very different paths--he could either be the greatest hero the world has ever known, or its greatest villain. Now the final battle is here, and it's time for Jack to discover the direction of his destiny."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Signets Belles lettres volume AE 4293
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
Author
Series
Jack Blank adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack may be the Imagine Nation's only hope of fending off a new Rustov attack, with the help of his fellow superheroes-in-training, but the virus he carries, and Jonas's suspicions, provide new complications.
Author
Series
Jack Blank adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Stephen King hates to fly.
Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can
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