Tom Stechschulte
1) The returned
Author
Language
English
Description
Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party. They've settled into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time...Until one day Jacob appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world, people's loved ones are returning from the beyond. As chaos...
2) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
Author
Language
English
Description
This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A serial novel featuring contributions by twenty-five masters of suspense follows detective Jon Nunn as he re-opens a ten-year-old case to discover if the wrong person was convicted and put to death for the murder of art curator Christopher Thomas.
When the decaying body of Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at a San Francisco art museum, is found in a Berlin museum, his wife is tried, convicted, and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.