Frank Muller
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Pulled to a desert island by a wild black stallion he has freed during a shipwreck at sea, then rescued by a southbound freighter, a seventeen-year-old boy befriends the horse, trains him by night, and rides him to victory in a match race.
2) The partner
Author
Language
English
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Description
A young partner in a Biloxi law firm who staged his own death and stole a fortune from the firm's offshore account is found living in Brazil.
Author
Series
Hannibal Lecter novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clarice Starling, an inexperienced FBI trainee, must initiate and sustain an unorthodox relationship with "Hannibal the Cannibal" in order to bring in a psychotic serial killer before his next target, a Senator's missing daughter, becomes yet another victim.
4) The pearl
Author
Language
English
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Description
Reworking an ancient legend, Steinbeck created a powerful parable of modern man's preoccupation with materialism, money, and power. The story is of Keno, a poor fisherman who finds a great, luminous pearl. Although he is sure the fortune it represents will solve all his problems, Keno eventually realizes that the pearl has marked his life forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
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Description
As Russian agencies investigate the attempted assassination of the chairman of the SVR, President Jack Ryan worries about the global implications, particularly as the impatient Chinese are ready to take matters into their own hands.
9) Dominion
Author
Series
Ollie Chandler volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a university professor is found murdered, a brilliant and quick-witted homicide detective, Ollie Chandler, suspects the murderer could be a fellow homicide detective, but as Ollie probes deeper, another detective is murdered.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
13) Dirt
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and ice-queen persona, gossip columnist Amanda Dart finds the tables have turned. Someone is faxing an outrageous scandal sheet revealing the details of Amanda's ongoing indiscretions with a famous takeover artist to national opinion makers. Amanda enlists the help of New York lawyer-investigator Stone Barrington to learn the identity of the faxer. Everybody is a suspect in the world of tabloid journalism....
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence...
15) Riding the rap
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he "starred" in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap-an explosive, twisty tale of a brazen Florida kidnap caper gone outrageously wrong. Chock full of wildly eccentric and deliciously criminal characters-including a psycho enforcer with a green thumb, a Bahamian bad man, and the beautiful, unabashedly greedy psychic Reverend Dawn-Riding the Rap...
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In his novels, best-selling author Cormac McCarthy creates a western landscape filled with characters that are both myhic and authentic. Cities of the Plain, the stunning conclusion of his award-winning Border trilogy, brings together John Grady Cole and Billy Parham-the two lifelong friends who began their adventures in All the Pretty Horses. It is 1952. As Grady and Billy work a remote New Mexico ranch, Grady falls in love with a young Mexican prostitute....
Author
Series
Michael Osbourne novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Daniel Silva's novels immediately become New York Times best-sellers. A former television producer and journalist who has covered assignments from Washington to the Middle East, Silva fills The Marching Season with the political suspense that churns through present-day Northern Ireland. In 1998, as the Good Friday peace accords go into effect, world leaders hope for an end to the bloody Irish troubles. But terrorists are moving to shatter that fragile...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
When Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, thought about writing an appreciation of his mother and a memoir of his life, he hesitated. How would mama feel about seeing her life in print? When he asked her, she told him, "Write it," especially since she had remained quiet about her life for 50 years. All Over but the Shoutin' tells the story of a woman who endures years of hardship and deprivation to raise her three sons. It is not a simple...
19) Bait
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
With some of the most spine-chilling scenes in modern suspense fiction, Bait guarantees the listener a roller coaster ride with a hero not afraid to cross the line. Life for narcotics detective Jack Walsh is one continuous drunken binge-until one blurry night when his car veers into an oncoming car, killing the son of Boston's premier crime boss. Now Jack must decide if he wants to hide from D'Angelo's vengeful compatriots or reclaim his life.
Author
Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 9
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
His Excellency Global Community Potentate Nicolae Carpathia, no longer pretending to be a pacifist, has ordered every Morale Monitor armed as he prepares to travel along the Via Dolorosa and then onward to the temple, where shocking surprises await. The lines are drawn between good and evil as God inflicts sores upon the flesh of those who have taken the mark. Meanwhile His chosen ones flee to Petra, where they watch anxiously as GC fighter planes...