Rachel Ward
1) Numbers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they'll die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than eith
2) Infinity
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The mind-blowing conclusion to the chilling NUMBERS trilogy: Because everyone wants to live forever.
No matter what it takes, Sarah's desperate to escape from the numbers.
Always numbers. Sarah loves Adam, but can't bear the thought that every time he looks in her eyes, he can see her dying; can see her last day.
It's 2029. Two years since the Chaos. Sarah and Adam are struggling to survive. She knows he always envisioned them together "'til death...
3) The Drowning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Water, water, everywhere: His brother has drowned, but Carl can't remember a thing. Until it all comes flooding back...with a vengeance. By the author of the internationally bestselling NUMBERS series
With a jolt, Carl opens his eyes. He's on the bank of a lake, soaked to the bone. Rob, his brother, is being zipped up in a body bag. And a girl, drenched and trembling, is talking to the police. Who is she? What happened in the water? And why can't...
4) The Chaos
Author
Series
Numbers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The curse of the NUM8ERS continues in Rachel Ward's CHA0T1C, earth-shattering sequel!Adam has more than inherited his mother's curse: When he looks in someone's eyes, he not only sees the date of their death...he feels the searing, shocking pain of it. Since Jem died, Adam has lived by the sea with his great-grandmother, Val. But when rising tides flood the coast, they return to London. The city is an alien, exciting, frightening place. Most disturbing...
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English
Description
When a young woman is attacked walking home from her local supermarket, Bea Jordan, a smart but unfulfilled checkout girl, is determined to investigate. Colleagues and customers become suspects; secrets are uncovered. While fear stalks the town, Bea finds an unlikely ally in Ant, the seemingly gormless new trainee, but risks losing the people she loves most as death comes close to home.
6) Dead Stock
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Series
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English
Description
I'm scared of anyone with a knife and a grudge.' New Year dawns and something is rotten in Kingsleigh. With a body on the bypass and pet cats going missing, supermarket sleuths Ant and Bea have a new case. But juggling problems at work and home takes its toll and as they near the truth, more than one secret is going to come out.
7) Expiry Date
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Series
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English
Description
Bea's favorite customer, Julie, hasn't been seen for weeks. Her abusive husband, Dave, claims she's left him but Bea can't shake the feeling something worse has happened. When a body is found, it seems to confirm her fears - until it comes out that the corpse is fifteen years old. Where is Julie? Who is the dead girl? And what was her connection to Bea's late father? Ant and Bea are back with their most personal case yet.
8) 1nf1n1ty
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Adam, Sarah, and Mia are living together, struggling with the fame brought about by their knowing the dates when people will die, but ever since Mia swapped her number for another, her new power makes her a target that puts them all in jeopardy.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Like his mother, Jem, when sixteen-year-old Adam looks in people's eyes he can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.
11) The thorn birds
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Colleen McCullough's epic novel about an Australian priest torn by personal desires and ambition. This title has been repackaged. Disc one contains episodes 1 and 2; disc two contains episodes 3 and 4; disc three contains extra content.
12) Double Jeopardy
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Language
English
Description
Jack Hart enjoys a wonderful life with his lawyer wife and young daughter, but when his old girlfriend Lisa comes to town, events are set in motion that threaten to tear Jack and his family apart.
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Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt sequel to Lilies of the Field, also helmed by award-winning director Ralph Nelson, Billy Dee Williams reprises the role of Homer Smith, originated by Sidney Poitier. Completing a tour of duty in the army, Homer returns to the chapel he helped build and is cajoled by Mother Maria into building an orphanage.
Author
Series
Blackbeard volume 2
Language
English
Description
The quintessential story set in the Golden Age of Piracy continues as Blackbeard rises to become the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. Stars Jessica Chastain, Angus Macfadyen, Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, and Stacy Keach.
Author
Series
Blackbeard volume 1
Language
English
Description
The quintessential story set in the Golden Age of Piracy continues as Blackbeard rises to become the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. Stars Jessica Chastain, Angus Macfadyen, Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, and Stacy Keach.