Fred Berman
Author
Description
A "novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their...
Author
Series
Ready Freddy! volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Freddy Thresher doesn't mean to get in trouble ... It's just that everyone in his class has a better idea than he does for the animal reports. He's supposed to study a nocturnal animal - so wouldn't it be great to stay up all night and sneak around outside with his best friend, Robbie?
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest. Book #3.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The latest illustrated novel from Lincoln Peirce is a laugh-out-loud must-read starring the one and only cartooning genius, king of detention, and Cheez Doodle connoisseur, Nate Wright. Nate's not having the best of luck . . . in fact; he's not having ANY luck. But with a little boost thanks to Chad's lucky foot, suddenly good luck is everywhere Nate turns! Nate's in the zone! But how long will it last?" --
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 7
Publisher
Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"As his school's centennial is coming up, Big Nate is stuck showing the dorky new kid around"--
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 8
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After his fight with Randy Betancourt makes headlines in the school paper, Big Nate has a problem worse than detention on his hands.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"In this latest misadventure, Nate, the all-time record-holder for detentions, gets to see how the other half lives as he follows his best friend Francis's example and becomes a total neat freak; has Nate totally flipped out?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club. When he doodles his observations in his cartoon notebook: "Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins, " Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?
12) Black and blue
Author
Series
Doug Brock volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The next exciting installment in bestselling David Rosenfelt's Doug Brock series. Doug Brock hasn't had it easy since his getting shot in the line of duty as a New Jersey state police officer. Between the amnesia and having to solve two murder cases, it hasn't been the most restful recovery. Now, the cold case department is checking evidence from a murder case Doug was investigating before the accident, but the DNA points to a man Doug eliminated...
13) Fade to black
Author
Series
Doug Brock volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"After getting shot in the line of duty, New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock has been busy rebuilding his life. He's reunited with his fiance and started to get some of his memories back. He hopes he can continue to recover with the help of an amnesia support group and that the damage from his past isn't permanent. It isn't until fellow group member Sean Conner approaches him after a meeting that Doug realizes the trouble is just beginning....
14) Robin
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his powerful Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was an innovative actor and comedian. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture, politics, and personal revelation with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another. In his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets...
15) Born of defiance
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, outcast Talyn Batur finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government and his own beliefs of justice and right. But when old enemies align with new ones, it's more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will end should he fail.
17) Born of betrayal
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Years ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancé. Even his name. Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again. But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war. And when fate throws his former fiancé back into his world...
Author
Series
The League eve of destruction volume 1
Publisher
Oliver Heber Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Eve Erixour is a mercenary with a past no one would envy and more enemies than anyone should have. Death stalks her relentlessly. So when she gains the attention of a League assassin, she considers it par for the course. But Jinx Shadowbourne isn't after Eve. Someone has it in for him and his brethren. High-ranking assassins are falling, and Jinx is convinced one of their own is selling them out. He's on the trail of his key suspect when fate throws...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks. But defying the odds is what this Gyron Force officer does best, and Bastien won't rest until he lays his betrayers in their graves. Ten years later, he...
20) The storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...