Catalog Search Results
1) The partner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
A thriller on the international movement of dirty money, its protagonist is an American lawyer who skips the country with $90 million belonging to crooks. They catch up with him in Brazil, torture him, but he does not know where the money is, his lawyer girlfriend is curculating it around the globe. Extradited to the U.S. to face various charges he is going to use the money to get off.
4) Oliver Twist
Author
Formats
Description
An adaptation of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
10) The expected one
Author
Series
Magdalene line volume 01
Description
Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by supernatural forces, these sacred scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the ancient prophecy of The Expected One. When journalist Maureen Pascal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is...
Author
Series
(Lucy Maud),Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged sister and brother on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
13) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend...
14) Looks to die for
Author
Formats
Description
Lacy Fields is the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicated mother of three, and an absolutely fabulous decorator to the stars. But when her husband is accused of murdering a young wannabe actress, Lacy finds out she has a killer instinct for hunting down murderers as well as antique furniture.Cleverly marrying the day-to-day foibles of family life with delicious insider glamour, Looks to Die For takes audiences behind the scenes...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In 2011, without warning, a skyscraper in South Korea began to shake uncontrollably and was immediately evacuated. Was it an earthquake? A terrorist attack? No one seemed quite sure. The actual cause emerged later: Twenty-three middle-aged Koreans were having a Tae Bo fitness class in the office gym on the twelfth floor. Their beats had inadvertently matched the building's natural frequency, and this coincidence caused the building to shake at an...
17) The subtle knife
Author
Series
His Dark Materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
18) Mountain laurel
Author
Series
Formats
Description
A new novel from the author of A Knight in Shining Armor! Jude Deveraux's heart-stopping blend of romance and adventure has won her millions of fans. Now, from the harsh American frontier to the warmth of a lover's whisper, the Deveraux magic comes alive -- in a storytelling experience that will sweep you away.The last thing Maddie Worth needed was a soldier. Traveling in a bright red coach, calling herself LaReina, the Singing Duchess, Maddie is...
19) In harm's way
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars.
20) Dead watch
Author
Formats
Description
At the request of the White House, an Army intelligence veteran investigates the disappearance of a former Senator, but the trail of clues leads him into the heart of a scandal that could cost him his life and topple the federal government.
Didn't Find It?
If we don't have what you're looking for, you have 3 options: ask us to bring it in from another library (interlibrary loan), suggest the library purchase it, or call us for assistance.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can suggest the library purchase it by submitting a request, or you might find it through our interlibrary loan service. See your options at https://readokaloosa.org/requests. Purchase Suggestion