Ron McLarty
21) True blue
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
What begins as a fairly routine homicide investigation quickly turns into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal for Mace Perry--a former D.C. cop working gang narcotics--who is rebuilding her life after being framed and imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit.
22) Nobody's fool
Author
Series
Nobody's fool volume 1
Language
English
Description
An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles -- a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends -- as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew investigate a black tide infesting the ocean off Nicaragua, a study complicated by the discovery of a mysterious artifact, a powerful storm, and a conspiracy.
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
America has enemies -- ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first -- and last -- mistake of his career... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Language
English
Description
Pitt's NUMA survey ship happens to be in the vicinity when the world's newest and biggest cruise ship founders and sinks, giving Pitt the chance to stage the daring rescue of nearly 2,000 passengers. Among those who perish is a famous scientist whose revolutionary engines powered the ship to her watery grave; while Pitt is unable to save Dr. Egan, he rescues his beautiful daughter Kelly from the sea, and later from a murder attempt aboard the rescue...
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has...
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case -- but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida. A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to its gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled...
29) Inherent vice
Author
Language
English
Description
It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy,' except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club.
Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist—and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone. But is this just a simple bank job, or are the robbers after something even more valuable—and...
Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist—and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone. But is this just a simple bank job, or are the robbers after something even more valuable—and...
31) Lone eagle
Author
Language
English
Description
It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye.
32) The ranch
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of three women who had been inseparable at college before going their own separate ways. Twenty years later the women are together again at a ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Grand Teton Range where they discover that their friendship is a bond they still all treasure and share.
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Vintage Anne Rice—a lushly written, gothic … metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves.” —The Wall Street Journal
When Reuben Golding, a young reporter on assignment, arrives at a secluded mansion on a bluff high above the Pacific, it’s at the behest of the home’s enigmatic female owner. She quickly seduces him, but their idyllic night is shattered by...
When Reuben Golding, a young reporter on assignment, arrives at a secluded mansion on a bluff high above the Pacific, it’s at the behest of the home’s enigmatic female owner. She quickly seduces him, but their idyllic night is shattered by...
Author
Language
English
Description
50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of children's literature's most memorable characters returns in this Christmastime companion to the Newbery Medal-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago.
The eccentric, larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel is back in this heart-warming tale. Set 20 years after the events of A Year Down Yonder, it is now 1958 and a new family has moved in next door: a Methodist minister and...
The eccentric, larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel is back in this heart-warming tale. Set 20 years after the events of A Year Down Yonder, it is now 1958 and a new family has moved in next door: a Methodist minister and...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Government agent-turned-marine-biologist Doc Ford returns in a steamy tale that begins with the suspicious suicide of a fifteen-year-old girl-and ends in a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption.
37) Decision Points
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this candid and gripping memoir, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.
George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live.
Decision
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The tale of The Wolf Gift continues ... It is winter at Nideck Point and for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other.
Oak fires burn in the stately flickering hearths, and the community organizes its annual celebration of music and pageantry. Reuben is preparing to honor an ancient Midwinter festival with his fellow Morphenkinder—a secret gathering...
Oak fires burn in the stately flickering hearths, and the community organizes its annual celebration of music and pageantry. Reuben is preparing to honor an ancient Midwinter festival with his fellow Morphenkinder—a secret gathering...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Japanese submarines carrying biological weapons, headed for the West coast of the U.S. at the end of World War II, never make their target. But someone knows where they are, and it is up to the Pitts to stop them.
40) Stand Tall
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.