Bronson Pinchot
41) The wager
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Michael Steele is ten days from the biggest night of his life. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Achieving the height of career success, Michael is quickly cast in the role of a lifetime as the lead character in a classic struggle between good and evil when rumors about his morality and faith run rampant. Will he buckle with temptation or stay true to his beliefs?
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
When a stranger shows up at his porch asking for help, John Felton's troubles are just beginning. John takes the man, who calls himself Ritchie and wears expensive clothing, to the gas station where an altercation leads to a gruesome crime. At the end of the day, John returns home to find Ritchie having a conversation with the Fenton family. Now the ordinary husband and father must stop at nothing to protect his family from Ritchie and his unspeakable...
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Series
Circles of Heck volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When a freak marshmallow explosion sends both Milton and Marlo Fauster to Heck, a reform school run by Bea 'Elsa' Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. Although his sister, a naughty kleptomaniac, deserves to be there, Milton believes he shouldn't. Now the siblings must find a way to escape before they are stuck in Heck for eternity.
46) Authority
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major movie deal had been struck. Just months later, Authority,...
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Pub. Date
2014
Description
-- Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer Manning's fascinating personal account--which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists--is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Readers experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative...
48) It's my party
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A bright young L.A. architect who is about to lose his battle with AIDS decides to end his life rather than face debilitation, but first he decides to throw the greatest farewell party of all time
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced...
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Series
Seb Creek mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Two investigations start at the same time in Swann County, North Carolina, one by the FBI, the other by the sheriff. The feds want to know who stole three Stinger missiles during a helicopter crash. The sheriff wants to know who hanged a black ex-con in a well. Seb Creek, a sheriff's detective, gets involved in both investigations and fights through lies, secrets, and murder to find the killer. The trail involves a long-ago axe murder, the ravages...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"It took all of thirty seconds for two shots to bring the world of Margaret Tabaaha crashing down around her. After losing her husband in Afghanistan during the first year of Operation Enduring Freedom, her two sons were all she had left. Now they had been taken from her violently, deliberately, plunging her into a whiskey bottle and stripping away her reason for living. When Arthur Nakai receives a call from his first love, Margaret, her voice pleading...
56) The gilded age
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Series
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"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era of political greed and corruption that followed the American Civil War. This period is often referred to as "The Gilded Age" because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the era is exemplified through two fictional narratives; one of the Hawkins family, a poor family from Tennessee who try to get the government...
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Series
Doldrums volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Archer Helmsley's grandparents have finally returned home, but there are rumors they've brought a curse with them"--
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Pure country": Country superstar Dusty Chandler leaves behind the glitz and glamor of his life and falls in love with a country girl only to have their relationship complicated by his past. "Pure country 2: the gift": Singing sensation Katrina Elam stars as a small-town girl whose rise to the top of the country charts almost makes her lose sight of the very things that inspire her music.
"Pure country 2: the gift": Singing sensation Katrina Elam...
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"Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's...