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2) The refugees
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.
4) Night shift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Nineteen horror stories, including "Night Surf," "Sometimes They Come Back," "The Lawnmower Man," and "Children of the Corn."
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this dazzling collection, Elin Hilderbrand offers nine delicious stories?prequels, sequels, and missing chapters from her cherished books?some of which have never been published, until now. Inside the collection, you'll find: Three years after Mallory Blessing's death (in 28 Summers ), her friends gather for another eventful Labor Day celebration on Nantucket in The Sixth Wedding. The marriage at the heart of Beautiful Day enters uncertain territory...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
Publisher
Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Risking all their hopes and dreams on promises of fertile land in the Northwest, thousands set off on the Oregon Trail between 1843 and the 1890s. Despite the majestic landscape and daily opportunities for fireside chats, the trail was hardly the place these migrants expected to find romance. In these nine novellas, travelers on the wagon trains experience all the challenges and dangers of the trail. Some will lose much, settle down along the trail,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains five illustrated moral tales for children from the world of Harry Potter, reportedly discovered and translated by young witch Hermione Granger, with an introduction and commentary from Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
12) Rikki-tikki-tavi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big cobras who live in the garden.
14) MatchUp
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers,...
15) Olive, again
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
""Olive Kitteridge returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms with the loss of her father,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage fell apart, she turned to photography only to have her world turned upside down again when a hurricane destroyed her home and all of her beloved photos. In the aftermath of the storm, Anne realizes that her life has fallen out of focus. She's lost touch with what matters most. So she takes to the road on a cross-country trip to ask long-lost family, friends, and strangers a simple question: "What's...
18) Blackout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark. A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks... A first meeting. Long-time friends. Bitter exes. And maybe the beginning...
19) Skeleton crew
Author
Language
English
Description
Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive. His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news...
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