Tom Stechschulte
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
In this exciting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, China Bayles fears for her husband’s life as an escaped convict targets him...
Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of the Huntsville prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. McQuaid knows there’s only one way to stop the vengeful convict—set a trap with himself as bait.
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Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of the Huntsville prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. McQuaid knows there’s only one way to stop the vengeful convict—set a trap with himself as bait.
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62) A Virtuous Woman
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Description
Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer. A LITERARY GUILD AND DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB selection. Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina and attended Rocky Mount Senior High School,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In his many New York Times best-sellers, author Jon Katz has illustrated the cherished bond between humans and animals-especially the intense connection to pets. Now, in this moving and thoughtful book, Katz addresses the difficult but necessary process of saying goodbye to a devoted companion, and offers comfort, wisdom, and a way forward from sorrow to acceptance.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon's Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise,...
65) Heart Earth
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig had only a vague memory of his mother until he discovered a cache of her letters. They revealed a passionate, can-do woman who loved the lilting rhythm of words. A moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig's Heart Earth highlights his childhood before his mother's death and eloquently captures the texture of the American West, the fortunes of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit....
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Series
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English
Description
The Dead Don't Dance is a bittersweet yet triumphant love story—a tale of one man's journey through the darkness of despair and into the light of hope.
In a sleepy rural town in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles are a young couple in love, preparing eagerly for the birth of their first son. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room, and their child is delivered stillborn. When Maggie hemorrhages and slips
...67) Night game
Author
Series
Ghostwalkers volume 3
Language
English
Description
In this “suspenseful...captivating” (Publishers Weekly) novel in GhostWalker series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan tracks the desperate steps of a wanted woman—betrayed, avenging, and dangerously irresistible…
Gator Fontenot of the Special Forces paranormal squad can’t refuse an urgent request to save the elusive Iris “Flame” Johnson, a victim...
Gator Fontenot of the Special Forces paranormal squad can’t refuse an urgent request to save the elusive Iris “Flame” Johnson, a victim...
68) Jackalope
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A jackrabbit who wishes to be feared asks his fairy godrabbit for horns and becomes the first jackalope, but there's one condition: he must not tell lies.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history,...
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting examination of the many ways college football has been transformed into a money-making spectacle that is hurting higher education In the spring of 2013 a study showed that despite huge economic problems, twenty-seven states were awarding their highest salaries to college football coaches. College football has doubled in size in the last decade, thanks to generous tax breaks, lavish TV deals, and corporate sponsors eager to slap their...
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Abridged
Language
English
Description
Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke's bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to the popular and critically acclaimed Bitterroot.
"James Lee Burke tells a story in a style all his own, in language that's alive, electric. He's a master at setting mood, laying in atmosphere, all with quirky dialogue that's a delight."...
"James Lee Burke tells a story in a style all his own, in language that's alive, electric. He's a master at setting mood, laying in atmosphere, all with quirky dialogue that's a delight."...
78) Before I wake
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Language
English
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Description
Sheriff Nathan Justice must track down a killer who is brutally murdering the women of Justice, Illinois, and joins forces with former FBI agent Rae Gabriella while trying to protect the town and restore its faith.
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Language
English
Description
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Across the West, bad men know his name. The deadliest bounty hunter on the frontier, Flintlock is armed with his grandfather's ancient Hawken muzzleloader, ready to put the blast on the face of injustice. As William and J.A. Johnstone's acclaimed saga continues, Flintlock will discover an evil too terrifying and deadly to even name.
WHEN A MAN SAYS HE'S GOING TO KILL YOU, BELIEVE HIM
The stench...
Author
Series
Ghostwalkers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan plunges readers into the darkest recesses of the mind as a man and a woman discover the terrifying power—and the forbidden passion—that could destroy them both in the first novel in the GhostWalker series.
The brainchild of renowned scientist Peter Whitney and his brilliant daughter, Lily, the GhostWalker experiment was created to enhance the...
The brainchild of renowned scientist Peter Whitney and his brilliant daughter, Lily, the GhostWalker experiment was created to enhance the...