Kate Reading
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world's leading scientists, he finds they're driven by, above all, curiosity. When they talk about their work, they turn to what's next, to what they still hope to discover. And, they see inspiration everywhere: From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for "the theory of everything" to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,"...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Timmy is a foster child who arrives at his new home with a very mysterious shoe box. At first glance, it's nothing special. But Timmy carries it with him wherever he goes, and when people ask him what's inside, he smiles and says, "Just things." As he settles into his new, loving home, he remains unwilling to share the secrets of his shoe box, until the beauty of the church Nativity pageant inspires him to open his heart and give the most precious...
Author
Series
Lady Sherlock novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her...
26) Knife of dreams
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Formats
Description
The march to Tarmon Gai'don, the climactic last battle between the Dragon Reborn and the Dark One, begins in earnest. Faile's captivity with the Shaido, Mat's pursuit of Tuon and Elayne's war for Caemlyn come to a close, while Egwene's capture brings the Aes Sedai war to the heart of the Tower.
27) The great hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!
In The Great Hunt, the second novel in Robert Jordan's #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al'Thor and his companions set out to retrieve a powerful artifact from The Dark One's Shadowspawn.
For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the seals on the Dark One's prison crumble and the armies of the Shadow boil out of the Blight, Perrin Aybara, hunted by specters from his past, must seek answers in "Tel'aran'rhiod" and find a way to master the wolf within him--or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life ... as The Tower of Ghenjei awaits.
29) Dawnshard
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a ghost ship is discovered near the stormy island Akinah, Navani Kholin sends an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands.
30) Rhythm of war
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Formats
Description
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation....
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Language
English
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Description
"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne,...
32) A tempest at sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte Holmes's brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at sea in this new mystery of the bestselling Lady Sherlock series. After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty's perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But then she receives a tempting offer: Find a dossier the crown is desperately seeking to recover, and she might be able to return to a normal life. Her search leads...
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
The conclusion to the Wheel of Time series draws on notes left by the late Robert Jordan.
34) Grave goods
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When the bodies of two people are discovered in the remains of an arson fire that destroyed Glastonbury Abbey, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is ordered by Henry II to determine if one of the sets of bones belongs to the legendary Celtic savior Arthur.
35) The painted veil
Author
Series
Publisher
Arno Press
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
First serialized in 1924 and published as a complete novel in 1925, "The Painted Veil" is the powerful novel of transgression and redemption by popular and prolific British author W. Somerset Maugham. "The Painted Veil" tells the story of the lovely and superficial Kitty Garstin and her unhappy marriage to Walter Fane, a quiet and honorable man. Kitty agrees to marry Walter not because she loves him, but because she fears being upstaged by her younger...
36) The prophet
Author
Series
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1923.
Language
English
Description
Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward, and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over...
38) The great hunt
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Young heroes Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, and Perrin Aybara, join Shienaren soldiers in a quest to retrieve the Horn of Valere, while Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, and Elayne Trakand go to the White Tower in Tar Valon to learn Aes Sedai ways and an exotic army invades the western coast.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
In the Second Age, The Dragon subdues the Dark One and his disciples in a mystical prison. The Third Age has begun and the Dragon is gone, but reborn in a boy who doesn't yet know his supreme calling. Time is precious, for the prison degenerates and the Dark One can soon work his evil. Only the boy, Rand, can stop him.
From his prison, the Dark One wills his warriors to destroy the Rand's village. But Moiraine, a servant of The Dragon, comes...
From his prison, the Dark One wills his warriors to destroy the Rand's village. But Moiraine, a servant of The Dragon, comes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While seeking redemption in London's underworld for a past that haunts her, Lady Lavinia Kent encounters her first love, Finn Trewlove, who broke her heart years earlier, and discovers that he is not the man she thought he was.