Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Time seems to slow as the clock ticks down. Pan-Con Airlines captain Rayford Steele prepares for a flight to London with beautiful flight attendant Hattie Durham. Because of his wife's newfound faith, Rayford looks forward to time, and the possibilities, with Hattie. Journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams is in Israel when the Russians attack, and he experiences for himself the miraculous deliverance of the Holy Land. Buck cannot deny Chicago bureau chief...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a case that's terrifyingly personal.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Caught between a stifling Amish community and an unnerving outside world, a devout young woman on the run is about to become the newest arrival to West Kootenai, Montana. On the day of her sister's death, Rebecca Troyer took her first step away from the Amish. Rebecca had always strayed a little outside the fold---a job at an Englisch bakery, long weekends with non-Amish friends---but nothing could have prepared her family for what she is about to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker), #1 bestselling phenomenon Nora Roberts, tantalizes hearts in Lessons Learned, a story of two people from different countries and cultures, who together make the perfect recipe for romance.
Throughout Italy, master chef Carlo Franconi is famous for his culinary creations. Publicist to the stars Juliet Trent has prepared a worldwide tour that will showcase his irresistible international fare to every restauranteur...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"Mafatu's name means Stout Heart, but people call him a coward. He fears the sea because it killed his mother when he was a baby. And so, though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru--an island whose seafaring people worship courage--he is afraid.".
9) Revenge
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the years, Jonah McKee acquired vast wealth, power, and an unsavory reputation. Though his fatal car crash is ruled accidental, his widow is convinced otherwise and begs her children to find the truth. Eldest son Max knew his late father could be manipulative, but a letter found among Jonah's possessions shows just how many lives were subject to his meddling. That list includes Max's brother, Jenner, rodeo rider and rebel, who is confronted by...
Author
Language
English
Description
Even today, almost five decades after John F. Kennedy was slain, the public continues to be captivated by the "Kennedy Curse" and new theories about what really happened on that fateful day in 1963. For nearly fifty years former Secret Service agent Clint Hill has lived with the unimaginable guilt of losing a president on his watch and has obeyed an honor code of silence, refusing to contribute to any books about the assassination. Until now. Hill...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate reveals clues that his wife and he were operating on the wrong side of the law, Alice Reynolds teams up with Sister Anselm, who is attending an undocumented woman who has been savagely attacked by a drug cartel.
Author
Series
Flashback Four volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Miss Z, a mysterious billionaire and a collector of rare photographs, is sending her four recruits back in time on a mission to capture, for the first time, one of the most important moments in American history--Abraham Lincoln giving his famous Gettysburg address"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler's forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away and even starting a...
16) The hate u give
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...
17) Annihilation
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joined by hot-headed smuggler Teff'ith, with whom Theron Shan has an inexplicable bond, and wise Jedi warrior Gnost-Dural, Darth Karrid's former master, Theron Shan must match wits and weapons with a battle-tested crew of the most cold-blooded dark side disciples. But time is brutally short.
18) Oregon!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
America's first wagon train crosses the Rockies and enters the Oregon territory in hopes of blocking the claims of Russia and England, and ensuring that the region becomes part of the United States.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: Why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request