Steven Crossley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...
2) I let you go
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves...
3) Closer
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
4) Saturday
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan's novels have won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. Saturday further proves The New Republic's claim that McEwan is "one of the most gifted literary storytellers alive." Neurosurgeon Henry Perowne enjoys life immensely and considers himself fortunate to love the woman he's married to. But on this day, a chance encounter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers faces the wrenching challenge of restoring men to health, only to send them back to war and almost certain death. Lieutenant Billy Prior, who is cured of shell shock by Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, is compelled beyond reason to return to the battlefield for a fourth tour of duty. For both men, the war is inescapable and consuming.
6) In the woods
Author
Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling up river to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but those of Western civilization....
8) Gone
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a serial carjacker whose actual targets are young children in back seats, Jack Caffery teams up once again with police diver Sergeant Flea Marley, whose life is endangered by a discovery in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel.
Author
Series
Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Medical student and saint-like Daniel Herbert becomes attracted to the Black Widow, Jessie Kelham, but if he recognizes her the demons of her past will surely erupt. Yet they cannot keep apart--and soon they are drawn into a union that may bring joy--or shattering danger.
11) Fall of angels
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Barbara Cleverly, bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands series, introduces an ingenious new sleuth who navigates 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change. Great Britain, 1923: Detective Inspector John Redfyre is a godsend to the Cambridge CID. A handsome young veteran bred among the city's educated elite, he is no stranger to the set running its esteemed colleges and universities--a society that previously...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The immense eighteenth-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering, the ten-year voyage, which included scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered...
Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Dodd and Sir Robert Carey are still in London, but Carey knows he must return to Carlisle as the raiding season is about to begin. Before he can leave, he is waylaid by his powerful father, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, and ordered to solve a mystery surrounding a body found in the Thames. And as much as Dodd hates London, he desires vengeance for his mistreatment by the Queen's Vice Chamberlain, Thomas Heneage, and hires a mysterious young lawyer...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From V.E. Schwab, the critically acclaimed author of Vicious, comes a new universe of daring adventure, thrilling power, and parallel Londons, beginning with A Darker Shade of Magic. Kell is one of the last Travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes--as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
Author
Series
Bastion Club volume 6
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a moment of recklessness, Gervase Tregarth, 6th Earl of Crowhurst, swears he'll marry the next eligible lady to cross his path. Cloistered at his ancestral castle in Cornwall, with nary a suitable woman for miles, he never expects he'll have to fulfill his pledge, at least not until the London Season begins. But then he meets his neighbor, the very appealing Madeline Gascoigne.
19) The wedding
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julie Garwood has ten best-sellers to her credit. With each book, she attracts growing legions of fans who hail her as one of the best romance writers of today. In The Wedding, she weaves an enchanting tale of passionate love and fierce ambition. Early in the 12th century, strong-willed Lady Brenna is on her way to an arranged marriage when she is kidnapped. Within hours, she is wed to Connor MacAlister, who is resplendent in war paint and full of...
20) The Secret Agent
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The Secret Agent is widely considered one of Conrad's greatest literary achievements. Set in gloomy 1886 London, the novel follows the life of Alfred Verdoc, a Soho shop owner and secret agent who is a member of a largely ineffectual anarchist cell. During a meeting at an unnamed foreign embassy where he is a covert employee, Verdoc is tasked with bombing the Greenwich Observatory-ostensibly to create public outrage and goad a lax British government...