Catalog Search Results
21) Easy prey
Author
Series
Summary
When Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, after the party, he knows it's for no usual case. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life, whose own secrets may turn out to be the most dangerous ones of all.
Author
Series
Summary
The Dark Lord Sauron, an utterly evil and powerful being, is stirring again after a long period of dormancy. He will soon dominate all of Middle-earth if he is not stopped. The key to Sauron's defeat is Frodo, nephew and heir to Bilbo Baggins--he has the One Ring into which Sauron deposited much of his power. If the Ring is destroyed in the volcano at the heart of Sauron's realm of Mordor, Sauron too will be destroyed.
23) Verity
Author
Appears on list
Summary
"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...
24) Dust to dust
Author
Series
Summary
An Internal Affairs officer is dead of an apparent suicide, but detective Sam Kovac is sure the death is a result of foul play.
25) City of bones
Author
Series
Summary
Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year-old murder case - with an explosive ending that leave all Bosch fans hungrily awaiting the next instalment. When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 3
Lexile Measure
950L
Summary
Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.
27) Boundary waters
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mystery volume 2
Summary
The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shiloh---a country-western singer at the height of her fame---has disappeared. Her father arrives in Aurora, Minnesota, to hire former sheriff Cork O'Conner to find his daughter, and Cork joins a search party that includes an ex-con,...
Author
Series
Left behind volume 10
Lexile Measure
830L
Summary
Global Community Supreme Potentate Nicolae Carpathia has his oldest and newest enemies right where he wants them: massed at Petra, a million strong--within reach of two bombs and a missile no one could survive without a miracle.
Author
Lexile Measure
830L
Summary
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded,...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 2
Lexile Measure
560L
Summary
In this sequel to "Judy Moody," jealousy rears its ugly head when classmate Jessica Finch gets her picture on the front page of the newspaper for winning a spelling bee. When Judy sets off on her own pursuit of fame, she might become infamous instead. Illustrations.
Author
Lexile Measure
750L
Summary
The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Poirot as...
Author
Series
Miss Julia volume 4
Summary
Despite her increasing concerns at the exploits marking her boyfriend's mid-life crisis, sharp-tongued southerner Miss Julia launches a fund-raiser to save her housekeeper's home from being lost to the schemes of a greedy landlord.
34) Walk the wire
Author
Series
Summary
When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom has also brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution -- and now murder....
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
820L
Summary
"In the law of the gun, a man must shoot his way to innocence. At least that's how Captain McKelly of the Texas Rangers puts it to Buck Duane. On the run for killing a man to save his own skin, Duane must now infiltrate the deadly Chelsedine gang. These ruthless rustlers are running amok in Texas and it's going to take a matchless gunfighter to stop their rampage. With the legendary Rangers providing firepower, Duane has more than a fighting chance....
36) Drums of autumn
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 4
Summary
A time-travel series featuring a woman doctor from the present who travels back to the 1700s and marries a Scottish rebel. She is Claire and he is Jamie, and in this volume they emigrate to America, becoming involved in revolutionary activity against the British. By the author of Voyager.
37) The U.P. trail
Author
Summary
While workers build the Union Pacific Railway in the 1860s, the United States Army fights the Native Americans. It is enough to make any man accept failure, except that Neale has a special reason to continue the struggle: his love for Allie Lee.
38) Slow horses
Author
Series
Slough House volume 1
Summary
London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses, " as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle--not unusual in this line...
39) Henry Huggins
Author
Series
Henry Huggins volume 1
Lexile Measure
670L
Summary
Henry Huggins picks up a stray dog, names him Ribsy and sets out on numerous adventures with him, including breeding hundreds of fish and collecting over a thousand worms.
40) The night fire
Author
Series
Summary
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...