Will Patton
141) Wendy And Lucy
Author
Language
English
Description
Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.
Author
Language
English
Description
A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the New York Times bestselling author. Swanson transports listeners back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history. As he did in his bestselling Chasing Lincoln's Killer, he deploys his signature "you are there" style to tell the story of the JFK assassination as it has never been told before.
143) Remember the Titans
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, an institution revered, each game celebrated more lavishly than Christmas, each playoff distinguished more grandly than any national holiday. And with such recognition, comes powerful emotions. In 1971 high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the local school board was forced to integrate an all black school with an all white school, the very foundation of football's...
145) Halloween ends
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Four years after his Halloween night rampage, Laurie Strode prepares for a final showdown against Michael Myers.
146) Abigail Harm
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Abigail Harm is a woman living in a fictionalized New York City, who, after being granted a wish by a strange visitor, asks for love and learns of a creature who might provide it. Inspired by the Korean fable "The woodcutter and the nymph."
147) Abigail Harm
Author
Language
English
Description
Abigail (Amanda Plummer) learns of a creature who might provide her wish and is led to it by a strange visitor.
148) Entrapment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A solitary master thief and an insurance company investigator team up for a multibillion-dollar heist.
149) Clete
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 24
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop the ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug. Clete Purcel-privateinvestigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots-is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete...
150) The Canyon
Author
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Nick and Lori have always dreamed of going to the Grand Canyon. However, once they arrive, their guide leads them astray. When tragedy strikes, Nick and Lori become frantic for survival. Finding themselves being hunted, they try desperately to escape the canyon alive.
151) Into the West
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An epic tale of two figures during the American colonization of the west, one white and the other Native American. Jacob Wheeler leaves his dull life behind to strike out west, while Loved By the Buffalo faces his destiny to try to fight a prophecy that his people will be wiped out by the settlers. Jacob marries Loved By the Buffalo's sister Thunder Heart Woman, uniting the two families while around them relations between the two races crumble.
152) Sweet thing
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Billie is a 15-year-old girl who fantasizes Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother. Billie has to navigate the evolving challenges of her life while she plays mother to her 11-year-old brother, Nico. They meet up with another adolescent, run away from home, and together roam the area free from their parents' watchful eye. They discover freedom and enchantment among the boats and railway tracks of New Bedford, Massachusetts. They fantasize about...
153) Armageddon
Language
English
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Description
When NASA's director realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's destroyed by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option: land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuke into its core.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
156) The list
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stunned by his father's sudden death, and then by the terms of his will. The elder Jacobson has left the bulk of his estate to charity. For his only son, he has left nothing more than the contents of a deposit box and interest in a company no one has heard of, the Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd. When Renny encounters lovely Jo Johnston, meets the members of 'The List,'...
157) Meek's Cutoff
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Language
English
Description
A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose...
159) Princess Kaiulani
Author
Language
English
Description
A Hawaiian princess valiantly fights to protect the future of her people.
160) Halloween ends
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers hasn't been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that forces Laurie to confront the evil she can't control....