Dylan Baker
1) Outpost
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Language
English
Description
A woman seeks recovery from a violent assault by taking a job as a fire lookout, but is overwhelmed by her isolation and tragic past.
2) Applesauce
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Language
English
Description
Two married couples become increasingly agitated with each other as they find out things about each other's past, while one of them is receiving disturbing packages from an unknown source.
3) Nightfire
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English
Description
Two American agents are hired to retrieve military chips containing top-secret content. Their plan goes awry when an unexpected political prisoner enters the picture.
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Women's Murder Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Patterson debuts his new series that introduces the Women's Murder Club. A demented killer stalks and murders newlyweds in San Francisco. Four women-a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter, and a medical examiner-join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down a criminal whose twisted imagination stuns and entire city.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Description
The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will love be the same?
7) The Cell
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Using an experimental technique, a therapist enters the mind of a serial killer to save a child's life. Her experience becomes a nightmare when she cannot find her way out.
8) Steve Jobs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
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This is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers,...
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
10) The tiger rising
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.
11) The corrections
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal, bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.
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English
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"In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory....
13) Next: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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In a near-future world where biotechnology and genetic research has become big business, the discovery of several transgenic animals leads to a legal and ethical battle over the rights to genes that can be used for commercial purposes.
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English
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The high-octane thriller that inspired the Academy Award-winning film. On a sinking cruise ship, passengers fight rising water-and each other-to survive. On its maiden voyage, luxury ocean liner SS Poseidon is capsized by a massive undersea earthquake. A handful of survivors must fight for their lives-struggling to make it from the upper deck of the ship to the hull, the only part above water, before the ship sinks. Faced with rising water and the...
16) Sail: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart, is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
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English
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"Arvin's writing is delightfully sardonic . . . you'll be hooked." - People
". . . breathlessly entertaining . . . as irresistible as a call from the grave for revenge." - Kirkus Reviews
"Arvin...combin[es] an array of supporting characters who colorfully illustrate the racial and economic divide of the new Atlanta..." - Entertainment Weekly
"As the suspense comes to a boil, so do the hero's feelings for his dead buddy's troubled girlfriend." -...
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English
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America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life-from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating-plus race, class, sex, and basketball. Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina, who has come here on full scholarship. But...
19) Falling Bodies
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Language
English
Description
An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics. Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically prove that the universe is governed by specific laws, can explain why planes fly and how matter interacts....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...