Tom Stechschulte
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey cannot wait to join the Army and defend the Union against the dreaded Colonel Watie, but when he is assigned to infiltrate the enemy camp as a spy, he discovers the rebels are boys and men just like him, and he must then decide whether to betray his enemies or join them.
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Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets. Among them is Vernon Smother's son, Lucas, a now-teenaged boy about whom few know the truth - Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son. When Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob must confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. Billy Bob knows the propensity of the town, Deaf Smith, Texas, to make scapegoats out of the innocent and to exploit and sexually...
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English
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A one-time ace reporter rents a cabin in a backwoods Georgia town, then stumbles upon and determines to solve the town mystery, which involves a seemingly affable sheriff, an autocratic town father and an incest-ridden family whose once-prosperous farm now lies under a lake. He joins forces with a plucky female reporter bent on proving that the sheriff is "dirty," and there's never a dull moment as the story surges toward its exciting climax.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation...
5) Bitterroot
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Set in the rugged Bitterroot valley of Montana -- home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life and xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia -- Bitterroot features Blly Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky country at the request of an old friend in trouble."--from NoveList.
6) Spider game
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English
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The Cajun dive in the middle of the godforsaken swamps wasn't exactly Trap Dawkins' idea of fun. But the GhostWalker wasn't there for a good time. He was looking for her. Cayenne. It's where she found her victims. Poor suckers. Then again, who wouldn't want to leave a place like this with a woman like her? It's not Cayenne's fault. Locked up, experimented on and never knowing kindness, she was bred this way--with a heart of pure venom. Trap understands...
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English
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When Miranda Lovelady and Dr. Bill Brockton discover what could be the bones of Jesus of Nazareth, their finding triggers a deadly tug-of-war between the anthropologists, the Vatican, and a deadly zealot who hopes to use the bones to bring about the Second Coming--and trigger the end of time.
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Description
Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's...
10) The justice game
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Series
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English
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"After the target of an investigative report storms a Virginia Beach television station, he kills one of the anchors before the SWAT team is able to take him down. Following the victim's funeral, her family files a lawsuit against the gun company that manufactured the killer's weapon of choice. The lawyers for the plaintiff and defense -- Kelly Starling and Jason Noble -- are young, charismatic and successful. They're also easy blackmail targets,...
12) Into the web
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English
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Roy Slater is a young man who 25 years ago ran away from his hometown to escape the consequences of an unspeakable crime. Now with his father dying, Roy returns, only to get caught up in another scandal.
13) Waking Lazarus
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English
Description
Jude Allman, who was declared clinically dead several times, always comes back to life; when Jude flees the spotlight to Red Lodge, Montana, he learns to divine evil, an evil that circles Jude's adopted hometown.
14) Rose in a storm
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English
Description
It's lambing season on the farm and Rose, a sheep dog, must help the farmer save the lambs being born in the winter. She soon has a more urgent task when the farmer is injured and she is left to protect the sheep from circling coyotes, with food supplies dwindling.
15) Cold Springs
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English
Description
A decade after the suicide of his troubled daughter, Chadwick takes a job at Cold Springs Academy, a school for wayward teens, where he is asked to kidnap the girl who witnessed his daughter's death and uncovers dark secrets about the long-ago tragedy.
16) Big red tequila
Author
Series
Tres Navarre mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
A man comes home to San Antonio, Texas, to rescue his old girlfriend and solve the 12-year-old murder of his sheriff father.
17) Dog soldiers
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English
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers-and the price of survival was dangerously...
19) Father and son
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Glen Davis returns to his small Mississippi hometown on the day of his discharge from jail where he spent three years for killing a boy in a drunk driving incident, and immediately begins trying to exact revenge on the people he believes have done him wrong.
20) Donnybrook
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2013.
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English
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The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament in southern Indiana: twenty fighters in a wire-fence ring fight until one man is standing, while a rowdy festival of drunk and high onlookers place bet. Jarhead is a desperate man who needs to feed his children, and he's also the toughest fighter in southeastern Kentucky; so he's convinced all his problems can be solved by one last fight with a huge cash prize. Chainsaw Angus is an undefeated master...