Ron McLarty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances like A Walk in the Woods and Travels With Charley. What fewer people realize is that he's also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel, available exclusively as an audiobook, McLarty takes listeners on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero.
Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost...
Author
Language
English
Description
Author of the acclaimed novel The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty is an American original whose infectious prose will swiftly ensnare any reader. Art in America tells the story of unknown writer Steven Kearney, an aging man whose lifelong commitment to his art finally brings him to homelessness in NYC. Then miraculously he receives an invitation to become playwright in residence of a troubled Rocky Mountain town.
4) Inch By Inch
Author
Language
English
Description
To keep from being eaten, a resourceful inchworm measures a robins tail, a flamingo;s neck, a toucans beak, a herons legs, and a nightingales song.
5) Memory man
Author
Series
Amos Decker volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together...
8) True blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Mason "Mace" Perry, having been incarcerated for two years and lost her badge for a crime she did not commit, is released from prison and determined to be reinstated, deciding the only way to do so is to solve a murder of a female lawyer, but evidence of secrets within the private and public world of the nation's capital threaten her chances of becoming a police officer again and her life.
9) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When hit man Will Robie refuses to kill his target he has to go on the run from his own people, and, along the way, he meets up with a fourteen-year-old runaway who is in danger after her parents were murdered.
10) Zero day
Author
Series
John Puller volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
11) First family
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
First lady Jane Cox insists on hiring private detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help when her twelve-year-old niece is abducted and the child's mother killed following a birthday party at Camp David, and while the investigators have no trouble identifying the assailant, they cannot figure out the motive for his obsession with the first family.
12) King and Maxwell
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The teenage son of an U.S. MIA in Afghanistan hires Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?
13) 'Salem's Lot
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The town knew darkness ... and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows ... and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence ... and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death.
Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, wirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are...
14) The escape
Author
Series
[John Puller] volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." -- from author's web site.
15) The gift
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A young woman changes the lives of the residents of a small Midwestern town during the 1950s.
16) The target
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Earl Fontaine, a terminally ill Alabama death row prisoner, plans one last killing that will personally affect Robie and his fellow agent, Jessica Reel. Meanwhile Evan Tucker, the head of the CIA, recommends Robie and Reel for a mission to assassinate a foreign leader.
17) Kiowa Trail
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom Lundy broke the law and crossed the line. Later that night, he was dead.
Outraged by her brother’s murder,...
Outraged by her brother’s murder,...
18) Stationary Bike
Author
Language
English
Description
New on audio from Stephen King. Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist. When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes...
19) Bullseye
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Series
Language
English
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In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club.
Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist—and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone. But is this just a simple bank job, or are the robbers after something even more valuable—and...
Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist—and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone. But is this just a simple bank job, or are the robbers after something even more valuable—and...
20) Hour game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. The tension is further increased by a second killer who is copying the crimes of the first.