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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mothers and fathers, teachers and jugglers -- everyone's aboard the night train. They're all sleepyheads, ready for bed, ready to ride the train to tomorrow. But the train won't go until wide-awake William shuts his eyes, too..."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zeus and the rest of the Olympians try to rescue Artemis from the clutches of a titan named Crius who has her under a sleeping spell.
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 119, 120
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double...
Author
Language
English
Description
Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan--an art historian by training--has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her--and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he's fathered twins with another woman. Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up...
Publisher
Time-Life Music
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Back of container: "What do Joe Walsh, Gregg Allman, Mavis Staples, John Mayer, Dierks Bentley, Bruce Hornsby, Lucinda Williams, Roger Waters, John Hiatt, and Ray LaMontagne all have in common? They loved Levon Helm, the man and his music. Some of the best musicians on the planet convened on Octboer 3, 2012, at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, to honor the beloved drummer and singer with the crinkly grin. This was the Love for Levon...
Author
Language
English
Description
"CIA officer Sam Hudson races to find a deep cover operative loose in the U.S. and a mole in the Agency before they can launch a devastating attack on Washington, D.C., in this adrenaline-fueled thriller from the author of The Night Agent and Hour of the Assassin. For years CIA officer Sam Hudson has been hunting Konstantin, a Russian deep cover operative responsible for a string of assassinations in the West--and he believes a well-placed source...
16) Tales of Terror
Publisher
TKO Presents
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
TKO Studios presents a collection of nine bone-chilling and blood-curdling shorts by modern comic masters.
A soldier faces a horror worse than death in the trenches.
A space pioneer faces the hell of a false Eden of her own creation.
A little boys insomnia that haunts his entire life.
Featuring stories by ...
Liana Kangas, Joe Corallo, Paul Azaceta (SEEDS OF EDEN)
Sebastian Girner, Baldemar Rivas (THE FATHER...
18) The equalizer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
McCall is a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1997 the author, aged 17, escaped North Korea for China. Her mother's first words over the telephone to her lost daughter were "don't come back". The reprisals for all of them would have been lethal. Twelve years later she returned to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea in a very costly and dangerous journey. This eloquent book offers the first credible account of ordinary life in North Korea...