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41) The great Gatsby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
*LARGE PRINT EDITION*
"Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." —Los Angeles Times
Set in during the Roaring Twenties, this masterful story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to Long Island and attempts to learn the bond business in New York City after the war. There, he co-mingles on Long Island with his affluent...
"Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." —Los Angeles Times
Set in during the Roaring Twenties, this masterful story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to Long Island and attempts to learn the bond business in New York City after the war. There, he co-mingles on Long Island with his affluent...
43) Nevada Smith
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Nevada Smith is a rugged innocent boy born during the 1890s California gold rush to a Native American mother and white father. When he finds his parents murdered by vicious killers, he sets out to track them down.
44) Almost dead
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO GET EVEN . The first victim is pushed to her death. The second suffers a fatal overdose. The third takes a bullet to the heart. Three down, more to go. They're people who deserve to die. People who are in the way. And when she's finished, there will be no one left. WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES FOR REVENGE. Cissy Cahill's world is unraveling fast. One by one, members of her family are dying. Cissy's certain she's being watched. Or...
46) Ten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast . . . only for them to picked off by a killer one by one"--Provided by publisher.
47) Sojourns in Vana
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
General Baltus Blackpool enacts his revenge for his wife's untimely death by placing the nation of Vorclaw under his military control and begins to hunt down the rulers of Vorclaw, know as The Council of Twelve. The Queen of the Goblins wants her own revenge against the Blackpool brothers, even at the expense of losing her love.
48) Pretty revenge
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The name of the game is revenge-no matter the cost-in this emotionally charged thriller reminiscent of The Wife Between Us and The Perfect Nanny.
Kerrie O'Malley, jobless and in an unfulfilling relationship, can isolate the singular moment in her life when things veered off course-the night she was irrevocably wronged by someone she looked up to. Eighteen years later, when Kerrie sees the very woman who destroyed her life on television, a fire ignites...
49) Kounterfeit
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Fullscreen
Language
English
Description
Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful sister--and the hapless buddies find themselves caught between the police and mob hit men after the money.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rancher Kit Troxley loves the thrill of the racetrack. He is well aware that horse racing can be a perilous sport, but when ruthless jockey Sam Overmyer cheats him for the win, Kit's eyes are opened to the dark side of the competition. After accusing Sam of foul play, Kit discovers that horses don't pose the only danger on the track—Sam's fury has followed Kit back to his Utah ranch, and the man is out for vengeance. His agenda is to destroy Kit's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old French sailor Edmond Dantes is unjustly imprisoned on his planned wedding day, and--after fourteen years of solitary confinement--a daring escape, hidden riches on the island of Monte Cristo, and a new identity bring him closer to a reunion with his love, Mercedes, and revenge upon his accusers.
53) True blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from a prestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital--and what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.
Author
Series
Girl from the well volume 1
Language
English
Description
Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing innocent ghosts and taking the lives of killers, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen is not a monster and needs to be freed from the demon that clings to him.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroythe town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been in...
56) The kept
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After her husband and four of her children are brutally murdered in the winter of 1897, midwife Elspeth Howell, along with her surviving son, twelve-year-old Caleb, takes on the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible for shattering their family.
57) Chasing fire
Author
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Nora Roberts delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline—men and women who wouldn’t know how to live life if it wasn’t on the edge.
Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. But there’s also little else as thrilling—at least to Rowan Tripp. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend...
Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. But there’s also little else as thrilling—at least to Rowan Tripp. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
59) The Bronze bow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After witnessing his father's crucifixion by Roman soldiers, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by a single passion: to avenge his father's death by driving the Roman legions from the land of Israel. Time and again Daniel is drawn to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, only to turn away, disappointed and confused by Jesus's lack of action in opposing the Romans. This is a novel about Daniel's tormented journey from a blind, confining hatred to his acceptance...
60) Double jeopardy
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Libby Parsons discovers that the husband she was convicted of murdering staged his own death and framed her for the crime.
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