Scott Sowers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life...
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Todd Belknap—a legendary field agent for Consular Operations with a reputation as something of a cowboy— is cut loose from the agency after an operation goes wrong, his best friend and fellow agent is abducted in Lebanon by a militia group with a vicious reputation. When the government refuses to either rescue him or negotiate for his release, Belknap decides to take matters into his own hands.
Meanwhile, hedge fund analyst
Author
Series
Trail drive volume 2
Publisher
Macmillian Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (4 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil war were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives. Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys brave over a thousand treacherous miles to drive 2400 head of ornery cattle into Wyoming's...
Author
Series
Trail drive volume 1
Publisher
Macmillian Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded river, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For big, brawling McCaleb and his hard-riding crew,...
Author
Series
Trail drive volume 5
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (ca. 4 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Across the Pecos, the Rio Colorado and La Panza mountains, the Texans and their longhorns kept charging-all the way to California gold! Between The Bandera Range And California, they faced all the challenges of man and God, but nothing could ever make them quit. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. The California Trail....
Author
Series
Trail drive volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011, c1993
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ted Chisholm, the bold, half-breed son of Indian scout Jesse Chsiholm, leaves New Orleans with a price on his head. His only crime--loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. With a team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers, and a vow to return to Priscilla and maker her his wife, Ten rides into...
Author
Series
Trail drive volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (ca. 4 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on rescuing their old friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war-torn Mexico, Gill and Van Austin, nephews of Texas founder Stephen Austin, cross the border after him and soon discover half of Mexico's army wants them dead. Taken prisoner by Santa Anna's soldiers, the brothers make a daring escape and head into Durango country, where they stumble on a valley full of longhorns--and a chance to build a future north of the border. All they have...
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. High- resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars...and it appears to have been activated. Sixty hours and counting ...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children -- have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he...
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Police Chief Jesse Stone must cope with two murders in his town in less than one week. When a sad link between the deaths is discovered, Stone becomes involved in an investigation that is malevolent and frightening.
12) Sea change
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Jesse Stone investigates the murder of heiress Florence Horvath after her body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts.
Author
Series
Sully Carter volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Thriller of 2016
“The test of a crime series is its main character, and Sully is someone we'll want to read about again and again.” —Lisa Scottoline, The Washington Post
“Fast-moving and suspenseful with an explosively violent conclusion.” —Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press
“Tucker’s Sully Carter novels have quickly sneaked up on me as one of...
“The test of a crime series is its main character, and Sully is someone we'll want to read about again and again.” —Lisa Scottoline, The Washington Post
“Fast-moving and suspenseful with an explosively violent conclusion.” —Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press
“Tucker’s Sully Carter novels have quickly sneaked up on me as one of...
14) Murder, D.C
Author
Series
Sully Carter volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Washington, D.C., reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and corruption, by the author of The Ways of the Dead
When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions—no matter what...
When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions—no matter what...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hell's Angels" was Hunter Thompson's first book, an account of the year that the reporter spent riding with the biker gang, then the very symbol of dangerous counterculture. After writing a piece on the Heirs Angels and other cycle gangs for The Nation, Thompson signed a contract with Ballantine and spent time with "as many vicious thugs as possible." His involvement ended on Labor Day 1966 when a group of Angels "stomped" Thompson, nearly kicking...
Author
Series
Sully Carter volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"An exciting first novel that echoes the best writing of Pete Hamill and George Pelecanos, mixed with bits of The Wire and True Detective."
—The Miami Herald
The electrifying first novel in a new crime series from a veteran Washington, D.C., reporter
Sarah Reese, the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C. judge, is dead, her body discovered in a slum in the shadow of the Capitol....
—The Miami Herald
The electrifying first novel in a new crime series from a veteran Washington, D.C., reporter
Sarah Reese, the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C. judge, is dead, her body discovered in a slum in the shadow of the Capitol....
Author
Series
Jason Bourne volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author, Eric Van Lustbader, returns with another Jason Bourne thriller as he spars off against another deadly agent—and he might be the perfect match for Bourne.
Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a...
Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a...
18) English Creek
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The portrait of a time and a place--Montana in the 1930s--is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation to come. The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside vacation with his ten adopted children and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine -- leaving his entire family open to attack. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Beth Peters....
Author
Series
Daily Texas volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A well-written, delightful novel set in small-town Texas that blends sweet romance with a moving story of God healing wounded hearts.