Chris Andrew Ciulla
Author
Publisher
[Blackstone Audio]
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
"The heart of Friday Night Lights meets the emotional resonance and nostalgia of My So-Called Life in this moving debut novel about tradition, family, love, and football. As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a hero who reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole, the beloved town sweetheart, he seemed to have it all--until his troubled wife committed...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scott Blackburn’s searing literary debut explores the dangerous world of secrets threatening to upend a rural Southern town, perfect for fans of David Joy and Brian Panowich.
For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That’s when life delivers him another...
For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That’s when life delivers him another...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When someone attempts to frame his best friend for murder at St. Benedict's boarding school, junior Luke Chase starts investigating on his own and discovers multiple suspects with darks secrets in their past.
5) Sugar Street
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of seven novels Jonathan Dee delivers a daring, tense, ticking time bomb of a novel about an anonymous white man on the run from his own identity.
"This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is relentless and unsparing. Deranged and faltering America, Jonathan Dee has your number." —Joshua Ferris, author of The
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Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
The "worthy and frightening sequel" (Stephen King) to the acclaimed and "unforgettable" (Harlan Coben) New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel Chasing the Boogeyman.
Back in the summer of 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the center of a living nightmare as the serial killer Joshua Gallagher—dubbed by the media as "The Boogeyman"—stalked his tranquil Maryland town. A lot has changed...
Back in the summer of 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the center of a living nightmare as the serial killer Joshua Gallagher—dubbed by the media as "The Boogeyman"—stalked his tranquil Maryland town. A lot has changed...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1976. Daniel Fitzsimmons is just sixteen years old and totally on his own-his parents are long dead, and his beloved brother, Harry, is off at Harvard, the star of the football team. When Harry is murdered, Daniel wrestles not only with inconsolable grief but with strange new powers he never knew he possessed. Powers he's not sure he can control.
Detectives William Barkley "Bark" Jones and Tommy Dillon are assigned to Harry's case. The veteran...
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Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent to prison but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice and killed him in cold blood. Now Rain is living the perfect suburban life, her dark childhood buried deep ... But when another...
Author
Language
English
Description
When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries-and ultimately became deadly.
11) Where it hurts
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. A gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people live - and die.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Guitarist Quinn Porter chases gigs on the road, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness by completing the requirements for his son's unfinished Boy Scout badge. For seven Saturdays he does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the wily 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly. Despite himself, Quinn picks up where the boy left off: talking Ona...
13) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A hugely popular social media influencer, Alex relies on her personal assistant AC to help her manage each day, but when a controversial post goes viral, AC goes missing, and a woman is murdered, Alex finds herself thrust into the spotlight with no one left to trust.
15) Dear wife
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Language
English
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Description
"For nearly a year, Beth has been planning for this day. A day some people might call any other Wednesday, but Beth prefers to see it as her new beginning, one with a new look, new name, and a new city. Beth has given her plan significant thought, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. A couple hundred miles away, Jeffrey returns home from a work trip to find his wife, Sabine, is missing. Wherever she is, she's taken almost...
16) Like Family
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A young married couple hires a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy; they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A-maid, nanny, and confidante-becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. The delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora A is diagnosed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Named by Reader's Digest as one of the Best Romances of ALL TIME
Get ready to laugh out loud with this hilarious romantic comedy featuring:
Violet
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Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The latest Mystery Writers of America story collection, featuring terrifying tales of encounters with strangers from some of the top bestsellers and award winners in crime fiction
It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories-a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"NXIVM meets Southern suspense.... Gripping, timely, and ominous."
—Allison Buccola, author of Catch Her When She Falls
Three women work to uncover the scorching lies and scandal behind a self-help movement, igniting a powder keg of secrets that could blow their town apart, in this suspense novel perfect for readers who love Southern mystery.
It's early morning in the small Texas town of Edenberg when the body of sixty-five-year-old...
—Allison Buccola, author of Catch Her When She Falls
Three women work to uncover the scorching lies and scandal behind a self-help movement, igniting a powder keg of secrets that could blow their town apart, in this suspense novel perfect for readers who love Southern mystery.
It's early morning in the small Texas town of Edenberg when the body of sixty-five-year-old...