Ralph Cosham
1) Animal farm
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A satire in fable form expressed through the animals of Manor Farm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2011, 2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
In this classic drawing room mystery, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary at the remote, luxurious Manoir Bellechasse. As Gamache's holiday becomes a busman's anniversary, he learns that the seemingly peaceful lodge is a place where visitors come to escape their past, until that past catches up with them.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A neighbor's missing artist husband pulls reluctant, retired ex-Chief Inspector of Homicide Armand Gamache down a winding path to the twisted truth. Gamache, his old second-in-command, and Myrna Landers soon follow a desperate artist's dark attempts to recapture the old fame he once enjoyed, journeying to the St. Lawrence River as they discover the desolate, disturbing portrait of a man with a blackened soul. Chief Inspector Gamache novel series,...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from...
5) Still life
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Quebec is called to a tiny hamlet south of Montreal to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of a local fixture in the village.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies - exposing both treasures and rancid secrets buried in the wilderness. (Bestseller).
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"No one liked CC de Poitiers -- not her family, not her lover, not her neighbors in Three Pines. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to investigate CC's sudden death on the day after Christmas, it seems like an impossible murder. How could she have been electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake in the midst of Three Pines annual curling match without anyone seeing a thing? In the beautiful but deadly Quebec winter, Gamache digs for secrets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillian Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c1965
Language
English
Description
Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which seamlessly blends science fiction with profound philosophical and theological themes. The story follows Dr. Elwin Ransom, a philologist who is abducted and taken to the planet Malacandra (Mars) by two sinister characters, Devine and Weston, who have their own ulterior motives.
Upon arriving on Malacandra, Ransom discovers a breathtaking alien world inhabited...
11) The jungle book
Author
Publisher
Sterling Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A children's classic, featuring Mowgli, the Indian boy brought up by wolves in the jungle, his companions, Baloo and Bagheera, and his enemy, Shere Khan.