Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Portrayal of a woman determined to solve the mystery of a past she cannot remember and a dream she cannot forget. Aurora del Valle's earliest memories were erased by a brutal trauma. She has been raised in great wealth in Chile by her Grandmother, and begins a search for her missing years as she grows into a young woman. A twisted saga emerges linking three generations of a powerful family.
3) Standoff
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television reporter Tiel McCoy, headed out Interstate 20 on vacation, changes her plans when she hears that the teenage daughter of a Fort Worth multimillionaire has been kidnapped, deciding instead to cover the story that brings her face-to-face with a pair of desperate young lovers.
4) Widow's walk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four Cassettes, 6 hrs. unabridged
Read by
Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty....
Read by
Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty....
Author
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Economics is a field most people think of as having to do with international trade balances, gross national products, unemployment projections, and other issues involving our own finances, our country's, or the world's. In recent decades, though, economists have been turning their lenses on issues well outside these traditional boundaries, focusing on one "unexpected" subject after another. They're asking how we choose our spouses, for example, or...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to Vienna to discover the truth about a bombing that killed an old friend, art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sidetracked by a photograph that turns his world upside-down. Could it really be the face of a man who during the last days of World War II had brutalized his mother on the Death March from Auschwitz? Questions abound when Allon, driven by an intensity he had not felt in years, begins to investigate, discovering in the process...
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Mercy Watson thinks like a pig: After Mercy Watson follows the delightful scent and delicious taste of the pansies her thoughtful neighbors plant to beautify their yard, animal control officer Francine Poulet is called out to handle the case, which brings unexpected results.
Something wonky this way comes: Mercy Watson goes to the movies and she's on a mission-for true buttered popcorn.
9) Naked
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Naked, David Sedaris’s message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me.Whether he’s taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It...
11) Alibi
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
�2009
Language
English
Description
Jessica Nagoshi, the beautiful heiress to her father's billion dollar empire, is being groomed, along with her brother Peter, to take control of Nagoshi Inc. That is, until she is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father's extensive Wellesley estate. Boston criminal defence attorney David Cavanaugh is thrust into this high-society case when James Matheson, a wealthy, connected but unaffected law student is arrested for Jessica's murder.
12) Shiloh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Author
Publisher
Howes
Pub. Date
p1992, c1987
Language
English
Description
Inheriting millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran extremely satisfied and Koko and Yum Yum adjusting to being 'fat cats' in an enormous mansion. A missing house-maid and shocking murder soon show them the seedier side of upper crust life, and Koko sets out on the trail of a murder.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Apophis, the chaos snake, threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness, siblings Carter and Sade Kane plan to use an ancient spell to destroy the snake, but first must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request