Will Patton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the...
Author
Series
Bill Hodges novels volume 2
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 02
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 2
Mr. Mercedes volume 2
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Bill Hodges trilogy volume 02
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 2
Mr. Mercedes volume 2
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
"A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" --
""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless-mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
In the 1920's the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured cars and lived in mansions. Then one by one, the Osage began to be killed. Mollie Burkhart watched as her family became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. Other Osage were also dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who investigated the crimes...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
"For nearly six years, in Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Brady Hartsfield has been in a persistent vegetative state. A complete recovery seems unlikely for the insane perpetrator of the “Mercedes Massacre,” in which eight people were killed and many more maimed for life. But behind the vacant stare, Brady is very much awake and aware, having been pumped full of experimental drugs...scheming, biding his time as he trains...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them--not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in...
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Series
Language
English
Description
On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect - drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath the glitz and superficial normalcy, a class war has begun, and it is nothing like the conventional portrayal of the decade. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful and gifted...
9) Robicheaux
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 2
Wheeler large print hardcover
Hackberry Holland novel volume 04
Hackberry Holland volume novel
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Wheeler large print hardcover
Hackberry Holland novel volume 04
Hackberry Holland volume novel
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English
Description
From it's opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign on the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, House of the Rising Sun is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army. After a violent encounter that leaves...
11) On the road
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Series
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic. Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooning young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
16) The Raven King
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
The quest for the Welsh king Glendower is completed, but kings aren't always what they're cracked up to be. Gansey and his friends are now desperate to change what they have come to believe is his fate-to die before the end of the year. They also have to cope with the villainous forces of greed and corruption who descend on their town, RoboBees, and a power-hungry demon. And there's that nagging curse that Blue will kiss her true love and he will...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
Louisiana Sherriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux and his longtime friend and partner Clete Purcel are vacationing in Montana's spectacular Big Sky country when a series of suspicious events leads them to believe their lives-and the lives of their families-are in danger. In contrast to the tranquil beauty of Flathead Lake and the colorful summertime larch and fir unspooling across unblemished ranchland, a venomous presence lurks in the caves and hills,...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia, Louisiana, to solve a series of grisly murders. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, one death doesn't fit. Adding to Robicheaux's troubles is the matter of his daughter, Alafair, on leave from Stanford Law to put the finishing touches on her novel. Her literary pursuit...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
A rash of murders has unemployed sleuth Dave Robicheaux rejoining the New Orleans sheriff's department where he searches for a serial killer while investigating a clue to the disappearance of a young prostitute years earlier, trying to stay clear of the mob, and becoming romantically involved with an unconventional nun.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
The grisly murder of two young women lead police to the door of Tee Bobby Hulin, a popular Cajun blues singer. However, Detective Dave Robicheaux isn't so sure. Hulin's profile doesn't fit the crimes. Robicheaux is intent on finding the true killer, but his addiction to painkillers leads him astray and into the underbelly of crime, corruption, and brutality. To catch the murderer, Robicheaux must first conquer his own demons, along with the growing...
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