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Author
Series
Hundred-Year-Old Man volume 1
Language
English
Description
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving,...
64) Six-gun country
Author
Series
Pocket books volume 41516.6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Only a step ahead of the bounty hunters, Porfilo must clear his name before he's brought in dead or alive.
66) Darknet
Author
Language
English
Description
"One minute Jake O'Connell is on top of the world with a beautiful family and bright future as a stock broker in New York. The next minute it's all ripped away when he's embroiled in a fraud investigation, his childhood friend is murdered and he finds himself on the run. Dodging the FBI and targeted by the mob, Jake is thrown into a Wall Street underworld of cryptocurrencies and autonomous corporations where he discovers a dark secret setting the...
Author
Series
Homelanders volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Time is short, but eighteen-year-old Charlie West has one last chance to stop the Homelanders from attacking when he finally gets back enough of his memory to realize when the terrorists are going to strike next.
68) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Whoever said living well is the best revenge never met the Sisterhood...
Together, the seven fearless friends known as The Sisterhood have served sweet justice to villains who thought they were above the law. But payback has its price, and the Sisterhood's last assignment almost landed them in jail. Now the women are fugitives with a bounty on their heads, but they're not planning on hiding out for long—not when good friends need the
...Author
Series
John Madden novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
In 1932 retired police inspector John Madden's peaceful life is thrown into chaos when a teenager is found brutally murdered in his quiet Surrey village. Madden challenged the official report's statement that it was the work of a wandering vagrant. His investigation shows that the Germans are also looking for a serial killer who is responsible for a half-dozen slayings in Bavaria and Prussia and has the same appetite for adolescent girls. Could a...
70) The key-lock man
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A posse is after Matt Keelock, but he is playing Injun with them.
71) Suspect
Author
Language
English
Description
After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.
72) Witch hunt
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Pursued by three obsessed detectives, an assassin known as Witch undertakes an assignment with global ramifications that forces those who are investigating her to follow leads within the highest ranks of international law and finance.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
74) Seven up
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum novel volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum has problems. Grandma Mazur's gambling partner, Eddie Dachooch, was found toes-up on his kitchen floor, dead from a shotgun blast. But when Grandma goes to the viewing, she doesn't recognize the man in the casket. She drags Stephanie along to find the missing dead body. But Stephanie's mind is on other matters because she has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage, and fellow bounty hunter Ranger is proposing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"When the former Baron Morgarath escaped to avoid punishment for treason, an uneasy peace fell on the kingdom of Araluen. But Morgarath, now in hiding, is already planning his next move, recruiting an army of savage beasts known as Wargals. Newly crowned King Duncan knows he must assemble his troops for battle. To unveil the full extent of Morgarath's plans, Halt prepares for a seemingly impossible task-- climbing the deadly cliffs of the Mountains...
76) Satori
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a prequel to Trevanian's "Shibumi," amid the chaos of the Korean War, the CIA offers Nicholai Hel his freedom only if he kills the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China in Beijing, a mission that draws on all his strengths.
77) Child of God
Author
Publisher
Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that pumbs the depths of human degradation. Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard-- a violent, dispossessed man who haunts the hill country of East Tennessee-- is released from jail and allowed to roam...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Arizona, 1880's. Daniel Shaye, Thomas Shaye, James Shaye. Traditional Western"--
"Career lawman Daniel Shaye has returned to the town of Vengeance Creek, Arizona with his two sons, Thomas and James, to take on the jobs of sheriff and deputies. Before long, they find themselves embroiled in cases of murder and revenge. When Red Fleming and his gang come to town to break his brother, Harry Fleming, out of jail, they kill a jailer in the process. Since...
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
John, a daring renegade outlaw steals the sheriff's wife. The sheriff follows in hot pursuit, but sparks begin to fly between Molly and John. (1st film). A falsely accused cowboy and a wronged Indian woman take revenge on a corrupt frontier town (2nd film).
Author
Series
Homelanders volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
High school student Charlie West awakens bloody and bruised in a concrete bunker, only to discover that he has lost a year of his life and remembers nothing about escaping from prison after being convicted of murdering his former best friend, or why he is being pursued by both the law and a group of terrorists trying to bring down the government of the United States.