Bill Irwin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
In a dreary seaside town in England, Annie loves Duncan - or thinks she does, because she always has. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't anymore. So Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. She sparks an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylansque singer-songwriter who stopped making music twenty-two years ago, and who is also Duncan's greatest obsession. A surprising connection is forged...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
Pub. Date
[c2006]
Description
Hot shots. A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel"--A lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
Hot shots, part deux. A do-or-die mission to rescue U.S. hostages in the Mideast takes Topper Harley and his Hot Shots on an action-packed trail booby-trapped with spoofs of movie classics and filled with famous faces in hilarious...
17) Hot Shots!
Pub. Date
p2002
Description
A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel"--A lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
18) Interstellar
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
19) Fluke
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew explore the question-Why do humpback whales sing? Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. Because no one else on his team saw a thing. But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial...