Adam Verner
Author
Language
English
Description
"Deep within the peaceful heart of Amish country, a life-or-death emergency shatters a quiet world to its core.Number-oneNew York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs delivers a riveting story that challenges our deepest-held beliefs. Caught between two worlds, Caleb Stoltz is bound by a deathbed promise to raise his orphaned niece and nephew in Middle Grove, where life revolves around family, farm, faith--and long-held suspicions about outsiders....
2) Undetected
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Researcher Gina Gray is on the verge of a breakthrough in sonar technology, and what she's told Navy Commander Mark Bishop is only the beginning.."--Provided by publisher.
3) Taken
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
4) Unspoken
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Graham's never spoken about her kidnapping. Sixteen years later, she's back in Chicago and she is the only one who knows the truth. But, even now, can she risk sharing it?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us comes a new, spellbinding story of buried secrets, lost love, and the promise of second chances. Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family's beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida's Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a terrifying highway accident. Devastated and losing hope, she shudders to contemplate the future--until a cherished person from...
7) Tuck
Author
Series
King Raven trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abbot Hugo plans to bring the invading Norman marchogi to the forest in force, heralding the start of a campaign to wipe out King Raven and his band once and for all. But Friar Tuck, a most unconventional priest, may just have a solution to the band's desperate dilemma.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaëlle family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the...
10) Hood
Author
Series
King Raven trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prepare yourself for an epic tale that dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood.
For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and his band of thieves has captivated the imagination. Now the familiar tale takes on new life, fresh meaning, and an unexpected setting.
Hunted like an animal by Norman invaders, Bran ap Brychan, heir to the throne of Elfael, has abandoned his father's kingdom and fled to the greenwood. There, in a primeval...
11) Scarlet
Author
Series
King Raven trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. After fulfilling his quest--and proving himself a skilled and loyal companion--Will joins the heroic archer and his men.
Now, however, Will is in prison for a crime he did not commit. His sentence is death by hanging--unless he delivers King Raven and his band of cohorts.
That, of course, he will...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
USA TODAY bestseller from the author of The Mountain Between Us, now a major motion picture! A man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both their hearts. It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. Her latest customer,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during his...
14) Killer thriller
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everybody loves Ian Ludlow's action novels - especially the CIA - because the spies know something the public doesn't: his fictional plots have a frightening tendency to come true. Ian is in Hong Kong with his resourceful assistant Margo French to research his wildest story yet - a deadly global conspiracy by Chinese intelligence to topple the United States. What Ian doesn't know is that his horrifying scenario is happening and that the Chinese mistakenly...
15) Convicted: a crooked cop, an innocent man, and an unlikely journey of forgiveness and friendship
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Language
English
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Description
"A true story of racial reconciliation and radical forgiveness. With all the disturbing news about race relations in America, here's a true story of reconciliation and the redemptive power of the gospel. How can you possibly forgive the man who falsely arrested you for a crime you did not commit? After years in prison, during a chance encounter with the crooked police officer, a young African American man named Jameel McGee faced such a dilemma: Would...
16) True fiction
Author
Series
Ian Ludlow volume 1
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2018.
Language
English
Description
When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, best-selling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy was not an accident, forcing him to go on the run, pursued by assassins and a global intelligence network that wants him dead.
17) Growing up Amish
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ira Wagler was born in the small Old Order Amish community of Aylmer, Ontario. One fateful, starless night, seventeen-year-old Ira, frustrated by the rules and restrictions of Amish life, got up at 2 a.m., left a note under his pillow, packed his duffel bag and left. Over the course of the next several years, Ira would leave and return home numerous times, torn between the ingrained message that abandoning one's Amish heritage results in eternal damnation...
18) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
19) The mark
Author
Series
Henry Parker novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Right as I'm about to die, I realize all the myths are fake. There's no white light at the end of a tunnel. My life isn't flashing before my eyes.
All I can think about is how much I want to live.I moved to New York City a month ago to become the best journalist the world had ever seen. To find the greatest stories never told. And now here I am--Henry Parker, twenty-four years old and weary beyond rational thought, a bullet...20) Deception island
Author
Series
Legionnaires volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stolen boy A haunted soldier A cornered conwoman... Rafe Angelito thought he was done with the demons from his past--until his son is kidnapped. Blackmailed into abducting an American heiress, the Legionnaire soon finds himself trapped in paradise with a fiery, daring beauty who's nothing he expects ... and everything he desires. But when he uncovers her own dark secret, Rafe realizes he's made a critical mistake--one that could cost him everything....