Catalog Search Results
2) Legend
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Author
Language
English
Description
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “Gone for Good contains more plot twists than you can count, with a jarring revelation in nearly every chapter. . . . [Harlan] Coben has crafted a taut thriller with a slew of compelling characters. . . . As subtle as a shotgun, and just as effective.”—San Francisco Chronicle
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the...
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russos. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate...
6) If I run
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Casey Cox's DNA is all over the crime scene. There's no use talking to the police; they have failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she's arrested--or worse. The truth doesn't matter. But what is the truth? That's the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey."--Jacket.
7) The innocent
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The horror of one night is forever etched in Matt Hunter's memory; the night he innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife Olivia pregnant and the two of them closing on a house in his home town, things are looking up. Until the day Matt gets a shocking, inexplicable video call from Olivia's phone....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Daniel Woodrell's modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence.
Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive....
Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
Author
Language
English
Description
On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
11) The waking land
Author
Series
Waking land volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik’s award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates—whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir.
Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder—and...
Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder—and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, the beloved bounty hunter with attitude returns in this irresistible adventure from Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty and "most popular mystery writer alive" (The New York Times).
Stephanie is having a bad hair day—for the whole month of January. She's looking for Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, who was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and...
Stephanie is having a bad hair day—for the whole month of January. She's looking for Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, who was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and...
13) Hit and run
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hit man accused of assassinating the governor of Ohio must clear his name and outwit the real killer who's out to gun him down.
14) If I live
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Blackstock's stirring conclusion to her faith-based If I Run trilogy (after 2017's If I'm Found), series heroine Casey Cox, who's been indicted for the murder of her best friend, Brent, continues to flee crooked Louisiana cops Gordon Keegan and Sy Rollins, who want to kill her before she can implicate them in Brent's murder. Meanwhile, PI Dylan Roberts, who knows the cops are guilty, is keen to prove Casey's innocence. Blackstock raises the tension...
15) If I'm found
Author
Series
If I run novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock, If I'm Found continues the heart pounding story of Casey Cox as she races to escape capture and bring the true killer to justice"--
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Laia and Elias fight their way north to liberate Laia's brother from the horrors of Kauf Prison, a mission that is complicated by hunting Empire soldiers, the manipulations of the Commandant, and lingering ghosts from their pasts.
17) Noor
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1898
Language
English
Description
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
18) Suspect
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.
19) Uncharted
Author
Series
Survival instincts volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her solo mission turns into a disaster, pilot Leo Eddowes, with enemies in close pursuit, must team up with Elias Thorne, a criminal both hated and feared by the entire nation who is guarding a dangerous secret, to survive.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"'No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.' These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and many others, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband's inexplicable...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request