Paul Hecht
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets... The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself... Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas-each distinctly different, yet uniquely...
2) The patient
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Master of scalpel-sharp suspense, New York Times best-selling author Michael Palmer brings his unique experience as an emergency room physician to each of his sensational thrillers. In The Patient, he creates a beautiful neurosurgeon from Boston who must treat a cold-blooded killer or forfeit the lives of hundreds of innocent victims. Dr. Jesse Copeland is experimenting with ARTIE, a tiny robot designed to remove previously inoperable brain tumors....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Description
Finally on audio -- one of the most beloved tales of our time! Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret Government experiment. Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Qluoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland.