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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
Wake up, genius. So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn't released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein's unpublished work - including...
2) End of watch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers...
3) Intensity
Author
Language
English
Description
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old woman whose deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival, and whose adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self respect and safety. Now rare trust has blossomed for Chyna into friendship with the woman whose family home she is visiting for the weekend: a farm in the hills, which Chyna can see from the guest -room window where she sits at one o'clock in the morning, fully dressed,...
5) Bullet train
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Language
English
Description
Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same.
A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin...
6) The compound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that hisfather has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
Author
Series
Gwendy's button box volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...
Author
Series
[Walker family mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Six years after her husband killed himself after being accused of murdering an Indian girl, Diana Ladd relies on a Native American wise woman and a local police detective to protect her and her son from her late husband's partner, recently released from prison.
10) The gift
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than twenty years.
11) Retroactive
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist and former hostage negotiator, Karen Warren, attempts to prevent a violent crime by going back in time, however, her interference only makes the situation worse.
12) Scanners
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Supernaturals with the power to destroy human beings through telepathy are bent on taking over the world while a young artist races against time to stop them.
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent,...