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Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The 22nd Posadas County Mystery, is a prequel to the prequel of the series, One Perfect Shot. It explores the younger Gastner, introduces Sheriff Eduardo Salcido, and traces the development of series stalwarts. When the first Posadas County mystery, Heartshot, published in 1991, Bill Gastner was the county Undersheriff. Over time Bill became Sheriff, then retired, and Robert Torrez took over the top spot. But what were Torrez's first days as a rookie...
84) Falcon wild
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Karma lives with her family at their raptor conservation center in Montana. When she has to take her beloved bird, Stark, the gyrfalcon she rescued, back to its owner, she's sorely disappointed. But things get worse when a car accident leaves her father and brother trapped. It's up to Karma--and a runaway boy named Cooper who ends up by her side--to survive the wilderness and find a way to rescue them"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
For five days teenager Hannah Ashton has been living a nightmare because Greater Houston is devoid of people and totally silent, but then she finds Leo Sterling, a boy from her school whom Hannah considers to be both hot and trouble; together they set out to explore their city, and their own emotions--but above all they need to find out what has happened to their world, or risk being separated forever.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"At nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in her washed-out hometown for a London winter of drinking to oblivion and yearning for deliverance. Some two decades later, she is married to a good man and settled in San Francisco, with a son and two daughters and a successful career designing artistic interior lights. One June morning, a photograph arrives in her mailbox, igniting an old longing and setting off a chain of events that [rocks] the...
87) The heavens rise
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred ... and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction ... and who alone knows the...
88) Forget you
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/MTV Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents separate, seventeen-year-old Zoey has a car accident she cannot remember and starts asking her high school swim team friends what happened on that night at the beach on the Florida panhandle.
89) The pact
Author
Publisher
Trapeze
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison. Twenty years later Megan is free. Let the games begin . . ."--
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Madriani investigates a friend's wrongful manslaughter charge in the aftermath of a highly influential attorney's sudden death.
91) Crash
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith; "Jim's Desk" and introductory notes by Chris Beckett The short stories "Crash," "Tolerances of the Human Face," and "Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty" by J. G. Ballard Treatments and letters about the BBC2 Review short film about J. G. Ballard titled "Crash!" that aired in February 1971 Introduction to the French edition of Crash An excerpt of an interview with Will Self and J. G. Ballard from 1994 When J....
92) Lost boy
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
94) Saturday
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An ancient and terrifying Narragansett native-American legend begins to come true for a teenage long-distance runner, whose recovery from the accident that killed her parents has stunned everyone, including her guardian aunt in Providence, Rhode Island.
96) Strawberry Lane
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From beloved New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas the first in a heartwarming new series that’s the epitome of comfort reading. In a small Texas town where most families go back generations, four strangers meet and unite as they bury a father none of them has ever seen and begin slowly to piece together a bond that will not only change them, but the community for the better. Perfect for fans of Robyn Carr and Susan Mallery. Starri...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young woman named Laura is found murdered shortly before her wedding...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Redefining the American experience for a new generation of readers, this brilliant collection of writings from one of the giants of Latino literature captures the richness and complexity of history, community, and place in the American Southwest.
Rediscover Rudolfo Anaya: mythmaker, master storyteller, American original “The godfather and guru of Chicano literature.” —Tony Hillerman A writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his...
100) All about my mother
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A woman must come to terms with the death of her 17-year-old son and her past when she seeks out her son's father.
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