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1) Deeply Odd
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
How do you make sure a crime that hasn't happened yet, never does? That's the problem facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it's the living who need Odd. Three innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene, but who the potential victims are remains a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: a stranger who...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
"Truck Trouble is a beautifully designed reader all about the troubles of a truck driver making special deliveries - will the parcels get there on time? Children will love to find out about a truck driver's day, from loading parcels to getting through traffic and thunderstorms to making someone's day with a special parcel! "
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. To save the life of her brother, Sally, a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila. As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative sets out on their trail, determined to do whatever it takes to terminate a human-trafficking operation,...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Today's toughest drivers navigate the world's most dangerous roads as they haul their way through India's Himalayan highways, some of the most historic and lethal on the planet. From the crowded streets of Delhi, to treacherously steep, narrow and congested roads blasted into the mountainside, seasoned drivers Rick Yemm, Lisa Kelly, and Alex Debogorski embark on exhilarating, exhausting, and terrifying adventures.
7) Knockdown
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A legend in the intelligence community, Barry Rivers is called in to track down the enemies in the U.S. government responsible for a perfectly orchestrated assault on a mass-transit railroad line that left countless Americans dead.
8) Black dog
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Action film about two truck drivers being chased by a relentless fanatic.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn't always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing...
10) Truck driver Tom
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The driver of a tractor-trailer picks up a load of fresh fruits and vegetables, then drives through the countryside, past small towns, and into the big city, passing farms, construction sites, and many other vehicles, then delivers the produce and relaxes with other drivers.
11) Convoy
Publisher
Cheezy Flicks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff.
12) Saint Odd
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Odd Thomas is back where it all started ... because the time has come to finish it. Since he left his simple life in the small town of Pico Mundo, California, his journey has taken him to places strange and wonderful, mysterious and terrifying. Across the land, in the company of mortals and spirits alike, he has known kindness and cruelty, felt love and loss, saved lives and taken them--as he's borne witness to humanity's greatest good and darkest...
15) My big rig
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 450L
Language
English
Description
A boy imagines what it would be like to drive a big rig across the country.
Author
Publisher
W W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A long-haul trucker reflects on the changing realities of the working class as witnessed during journeys ranging from the I-95 Powerland and the Florida Everglades to the truck stops of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jeremy, Richard and James purchase used big rigs and try to be truck drivers, and find it is harder than it looks. The boys travel to the USA to take three new generation muscle cars on a road trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats; they are challenged to drive from the heart of Switzerland to England's North West coast on just one tank of fuel; they set out to travel the entire length of Vietnam in just eight days.
