Will Patton
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation...An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson...
2) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A ... suspenseful closing volume--Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer, ... returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last, ... installment starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney"-- Provided by publisher.
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something evil has awakened. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, has been in the clinic for five years in a vegetative state....
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from "modern master" (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke. Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"[T]he story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance--and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever-- an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army" -- provided by publisher.
"After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath the glitz and superficial normalcy, a class war has begun, and it is nothing like the conventional portrayal of the decade. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful and gifted...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Codenamed 'The November Man,' Peter Devereaux is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness Alice Fournier. He soon finds this assignment makes him a target of his former friend and CIA protege David Mason. With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe....
10) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
11) Minari
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Author
Series
Dreamer trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared...
13) Halloween
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 40 years after killer Michael Myers wreaked his havoc on Halloween night. Laurie Strode remembers the horrific event from her first-hand experience of it all. Although Myers has been imprisoned, Strode has been preparing herself for the chance that he'll somehow get out to embark on another killing spree. When Myers does, Strode will be ready to try to end the killer's murderous ways, once and for all. Will she prevail if she and Myers come face-to-face...
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).
“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale...
“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale...
15) Thirteen moons
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as...
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Named the guardian of her murdered sister's troubled twins, Luce of 1950s rural North Carolina struggles to build a family with the children and a new romantic prospect before being targeted by the twins' father--her sister's killer--who believes that the children are in possession of a stolen cache of money.
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.
18) The Raven King
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover James Patterson's stunning debut, an Edgar Award-winning novel of prejudice and murder in the American South.
You are about to begin a classic award-winning novel of suspense. When an up-and-coming politician is murdered in a small Southern town, reporter Ochs Jones suspects that racism and prejudice had something to do with it-and when he learns about two other murders, tracking down the killer becomes more important than ever.
No...
You are about to begin a classic award-winning novel of suspense. When an up-and-coming politician is murdered in a small Southern town, reporter Ochs Jones suspects that racism and prejudice had something to do with it-and when he learns about two other murders, tracking down the killer becomes more important than ever.
No...
20) The Raven Boys
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.