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2981) Emma Brown
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
2982) A column of fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
2983) The silent land: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A young couple manages to dig their way out of the snow when a flash avalanche interrupts their skiing trip in the remote French Pyrenees, but once freed the couple discovers the world has been overtaken by a terrible silence with cell phones and land lines cut off and a swift evacuation leaves them alone to face the coming threat of another deadly storm.
Author
Publisher
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Former Navy SEAL James Reece's skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and [has] set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin. The attacks are being coordinated by a shadowy former Iraqi commando who has disappeared into Europe's underground. The United States government has an asset who can turn...
2985) Hello, darkness
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Radio broadcaster Paris Gibson is forced out of her isolated personal life when she is involved in an abduction and threatened murder, and she must confront her painful past.
2986) Massacre pond
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Investigating the senseless slaughter of five moose found on the estate of a wealthy animal rights activist, Game Warden Mike Bowditch finds the controversial case turning more sinister when the activist's daughter is killed in a suspicious accident, a situation that compels Bowditch to risk everything he cares about.
2987) The accident: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After his wife Sheila is killed in a car accident that the police claim she caused, contractor Glen Garber resorts to desperate measures to protect his eight-year-old daughter and avenge his wife.
2989) The assassin
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Special agent Tommy Carmellini attempts to infiltrate a group of political leaders in order to find the person responsible for leaking key information to Al Qaeda leader Abu Qasim and track down Qasim before the terrorist can unleash further destruction on the world.
2990) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
2991) Revival: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
2993) Greenwich Park
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A sophisticated female-led thriller about a woman whose life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother, Greenwich Park explores the terrible consequences of guilt, the complexity of female friendships, and the fallibility of the memories we cherish"--
Helen has a handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way after years of trying, But her life begins to change the day...
2994) Distant thunder
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 63
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"During an intense storm in Dark Harbor, Maine, a perplexing murder lands a dead man on Stone Barrington's doorstep. As secrets swirl around this mystery man's identity, Stone quickly sets out to unravel a web of cunning misdirections and lies. Soon enough, he is embroiled in an elaborate game of cat and mouse between the CIA and nefarious foreign forces, including a bewitching new companion who comes under his protection. But when Stone's actions...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes... Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"In this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor--and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors ... Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch...
Author
Series
Martini Club volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her "Martini Club" of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
2998) The scapegoat
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
2999) Triple Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 30
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families--and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull,...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novel volume 21
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, CIA Director Irene Kennedy is forced to construct a truce between the two men. The terms are simple: Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until Cook's power-hungry security adviser convinces him that...
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