Frank Muller
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Jack Sawyer series volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Soon to be a Netflix series! The iconic, "extraordinary" (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy thriller about a young boy's quest to save his mother's life.
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the only thing that...
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the only thing that...
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English
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A girl on a horse is involved in a car accident, loses a leg and the horse goes mad. As she won't allow him to be destroyed, her mother, a New York magazine editor, quits job and husband and takes horse and daughter to a rancher in Montana, said to cure horses by talking to them. Despite cultural differences--she is British--love blooms between editor and rancher.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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....
25) The run: a novel
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English
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Will Lee, the hero of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Run Before the Wind and Grassroots, has finally established himself at the heart of American government as the respected Senator from his home state of Georgia.
The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous - and deadly - than Will and his wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine. A decent, courageous, and principled man,
...26) The red pony
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
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English
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When a series of gruesome murders occurs that is reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a madman dubbed "the Fisherman," the local police chief begs retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer to help in the investigation.
28) Comanche moon
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Comanche Moon completes Larry McMurtry's epic cycle of novels of the American West that began with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove. We join Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call as they are just beginning to deal with the perplexing tensions of adult life -- Gus, and his great love, Clara Forsythe, Call and Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him -- when they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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In a critically acclaimed memoir, a correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hill country, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from the poverty and ignorance of life.
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills...
30) The Regulators
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic, terrifying New York Times bestseller of those caught between the surreal forces of good versus evil in a small suburban Ohio town.
"The red van rolls past...humming and glinting. ...Things are happening fast now, although no one on Poplar Street realizes it yet."
It's a gorgeous midsummer afternoon along Poplar Street in the peaceful suburbia of Wentwort, Ohio, where...
"The red van rolls past...humming and glinting. ...Things are happening fast now, although no one on Poplar Street realizes it yet."
It's a gorgeous midsummer afternoon along Poplar Street in the peaceful suburbia of Wentwort, Ohio, where...
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English
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"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 enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
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Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Language
English
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In The Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of a bloody murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in the sinister slammer, and has a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's far too late.
33) The Body
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Language
English
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In 1960, Gordie LaChance and three of his rambunctious friends venture into the Maine woods and find out about life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. The Body is the basis of the classic film Stand By Me, and one of four novellas in the bestselling book Different Seasons.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Includes the stories "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly...
A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly...