Frank Müller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends. When he waits too long to get a date for the homecoming dance, Jamie, the Baptist minister's daughter, is the only one left to ask. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life.
3) Wastelands
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
4) The partner
Author
Language
English
Description
A young partner in a Biloxi law firm who staged his own death and stole a fortune from the firm's offshore account is found living in Brazil.
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
6) The brethren
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Three former judges who call themselves The Brethren meet each day in the law library of Trumble, a minimum security federal prison, where they are fine-tuning a mail scam. It's starting to really work. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a man with dangerous friends, the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A taut and terrific page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) from the master of the courtroom thriller
“Great fun to read . . . The complex plotting is Grisham’s major accomplishment.”—Los Angeles Times
In development as a USA Network series starring John Slattery
It’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is...
“Great fun to read . . . The complex plotting is Grisham’s major accomplishment.”—Los Angeles Times
In development as a USA Network series starring John Slattery
It’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the second installment of Stephen King's extraordinary Dark Tower series, Roland, the world's last gunslinger, awakes on a beach and is attacked by a vicious lobstrocity. Badly injured, Roland makes his way to a set of three doors acting as portals to different dimensions. As Roland travels between doorways, he brings back companions for his quest to find the Dark Tower.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.
A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and...
A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and...
13) The runaway jury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In a landmark tobacco trial the jury starts to behave strangely. Are they being manipulated or even controlled?
14) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roland the gunslinger and his crew barely escape one world only to slip into another. It is in this other world that Roland relates to his crew a twisted and entertaining tale of his first quest as a gunslinger and the love of his life, Susan Delgado.
15) The waste lands
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
The third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is "Stephen King at his best" (School Library Journal).
Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland's two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves...
Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland's two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves...
16) On the road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force
...Author
Series
Hannibal Lecter novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI trainee Clarise Starling is assigned to interview a brilliant, imprisoned psychopathic killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. She needs him to bring in a psychotic serial killer.
19) The sea-wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life -- an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Haversham, whose beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella young Pip adores. But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a gentleman, Pip never dreams he will meet the dreadful Magwitch again, nor just how wrong his expectations are.