Author: Ragnar Jónasson, 1976- author. Bates, Quentin, translator.
Published: 2017 2013
Call Number: F JONASSON
Format: Books
Summary: Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kálfshamarsvík. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thór Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier. As the dark history and its secrets of the village are unveiled, and the death toll begins to rise, the Siglufjordur detectives must race against the clock to find the killer, before another tragedy takes place. Dark, chilling and complex, Whiteout is a haunting, atmospheric and stunningly plotted thriller from one of Iceland's bestselling crime writers.
Author: Gaiman, Neil author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: 293.13
Format: Books
Summary: Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he presents his fashioning of the primeval Norse myths into a novel, which begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds, delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly recreating the characters--the gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to dupe others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions--and making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.--
Author: Bradford, Chris, author.
Published: 2017 2014
Call Number: Y BRADFORD
Format: Books
Summary: As the son of a British bodyguard who sacrificed his life in the line of duty, teenage kickboxing champion Connor Reeves is proud to join the ranks of a top-secret young bodyguard squad, but his first assignment, to guard the First Daughter, may test his limits. Connor Reeves, a teenage kickboxing champion, is determined to make his father, a former special forces soldier, proud. Connor is in a top-secret young bodyguard squad known as Guardian, where he is doing anti-bush exercises, hostage survival and unarmed combat. He is preparing for dangerous missions, including when he will need to protect the president's daughter. --adapted from back cover
Author: Bradford, Chris, author.
Published: 2017 2015
Call Number: Y BRADFORD
Format: Books
Summary: After their convoy is ambushed by rebel soldiers, teenage bodyguard Connor along with Amber and Henri, whom he is sworn to protect, must fight for their lives in the African plains, evading lethal hunters, both human and animal. With their safari vacation cut short, and a band of heavily armed rebel soldiers in hot pursuit, Connor must use every skill and trick he's learned during his Guardian training to ensure their survival. However, Connor realizes the gunmen are the least of their problems--no amount of bodyguard training can prepare him for the bloodthirsty predators who roam the savanna. --adapted from back cover
Author: Bradford, Chris, author.
Published: 2017 2015
Call Number: Y BRADFORD
Format: Books
Summary: Teenage bodyguard Connor is assigned to protect a French diplomat's family on safari in Africa, but deep in the savanna the journey takes a terrifying turn when their convoy is ambushed by brutal gunmen. Connor Reeves is selected to protect a French diplomat's family on a safari in Africa. Their convoy is ambushed by brutal gunmen seeking bloodshed and riches. Connor and those under his protection become the prey in a deadly hunt across the African plains. --adapted from back cover
Author: Bradford, Chris, author.
Published: 2017 2014
Call Number: Y BRADFORD
Format: Books
Summary: Teenage bodyguard Connor Reeves continues to put his life on the line for Alicia, the U.S. President's daughter, while the terrorist plot to kidnap her proceeds. Connor Reeves battles to protect the US president's daughter, Alicia, from mortal danger...even if it means putting his own life at risk. Connor is an invisible shield kept secret from everyone, to protect the president's daughter. Alicia doesn't even know about him. Yet danger lurks around every corner, and the terrorist plot to kidnap Alicia is already under way, the net tightening as the enemy prepares to strike. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Apatow, Judd, 1967- author.
Published: 2016 2015
Call Number: 792.76 APATOW
Format: Books
Summary: "Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics like Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Steve Allen, Sandra Bernhard; none of whom, by the way, had any idea they were talking to a kid in his parents' garage -- and talk to them about what got them into comedy, and what made them stay in. Thirty years later, Apatow is still that comedy nerd, and still interviewing comics about what drives them and why they do what they do. That obsession has made him one of the most recognizable and influential comedic filmmakers working today. This book is a collection of 30 years worth of conversations -- always funny, often poignant, and incredibly intimate -- that not only span Apatow's career, but his adult life. Featuring interviews with luminaries like Mel Brooks and Chris Rock and modern icons like Louis CK and Amy Schumer, this is a book for fans of comedy, from the nerdiest fan of all" --Provided by publisher.
Author: End?, Sh?saku, 1923-1996, author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: F ENDO
Format: Books
Summary: "Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."--The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endois one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece"--
Author: Bishop, Anne, author.
Published: 2014 2013
Call Number: PB BISHOP
Format: Books
Summary: Blood prophet Meg Corbyn, who can see the future when her skin is cut, escapes enslavement by her Controller and teams up with a shape-shifter who employs her as a Human Liaison.
Author: Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: F SEBAGMON
Format: Books
Summary: "The engrossing, heartbreaking new novel about two forbidden and deadly love affairs set in the corridors of Moscow's most elite school in 1945 by the brilliant and bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore."--
Author: Gabaldon, Diana, author.
Published: 2014 2001
Call Number: F GABALDON
Format: Books
Summary: The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in a series written by Diana Gabaldon about Claire Fraser, who can travel through time by touching stones (think Stonehenge). The first time she time traveled, it was an accident. She traveled two-hundred years backward to the 1740s and met the love of her life, Jamie Frasier, a Scottish highlander. Their love story has developed through out each of the books as Gabaldon details the historical setting that surrounds them. In The Fiery Cross, the year is 1771 and the unrest and dissatisfaction of the colonists in the New World are humming.
Author: Smith, Lee, 1944- author.
Published: 2011 1988
Call Number: F SMITH
Format: Books
Summary: Ivy Rowe never strays far from her Virginia mountains, but through the years, the letters she writes take her on a journey of passion and wonder. Ivy Rowe, Virginia mountain girl, then wife, mother, and finally "Mawmaw," never strays far from her home--but the letters she writes take her across the country and over the ocean. Writing "to hold onto what's passing," she tells stories that are rich with the life of Appalachia in words that are colloquial, often misspelled, but always beautiful. From childhood, when teachers encouraged her gift for language, to her rebellious teenage years when she swore against motherhood--only to then become a mother--and on through life, Ivy writes with insight, honesty, and a passion for living that is sure to be infectious.
Author: DeLillo, Don, author.
Published: 2009 1985
Call Number: F DELILLO
Format: Books
Summary: Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney; his fourth wife, Babette; and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
Author: Clare, Cassandra, author.
Published: 2007
Call Number: Y CLARE
Format: Books
Summary: Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Author: Hirsch, E. D., Jr. (Eric Donald), 1928- editor.
Published: 2005
Call Number: 372.242 WHAT
Format: Books
Summary: A resource book that presents the knowledge that should be learned in the fifth grade as identified by the Core Knowledge Foundation, and includes math, language arts, science, history, geography, art, and technology.
Author: Franzen, Jonathan.
Published: 2001
Call Number: F FRANZEN
Format: Books
Author: Butler, Octavia E., author.
Published: 2000 1989
Call Number: F BUTLER
Format: Books
Summary: All of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth, in an omnibus edition containing three class science fiction novels--Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago. The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph. D., Lilith's Brood is a profoundly evocative, sensual--and disturbing--epic of human transformation. Lilith Lyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected, by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: Their own children. This is their story.
Author: Krakauer, Jon author. Rackliff, Randy, illustrator.
Published: 1999 1997
Call Number: GV199.44.E85 K72 1997
Format: Books
Summary: "Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds..." "This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top of the world, during what would be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. In this harrowing yet breathtaking narrative, Krakauer takes the reader along with his ill-fated expedition, step by precarious step, from Katmandu to the mountain's pinnacle where, plagued by a combination of hubris, greed, poor judgment, and plain bad luck, they would fall prey to the mountain's unpredictable fury."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Hill, Tim (Director), film director, screenwriter. Aibel, Jonathan, 1969- screenwriter. Berger, Glenn, screenwriter. Harris, Ryan (Producer), film producer. Kenny, Tom, 1962- voice actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: J SPONGEBO
Format: Video disc
Summary: After SpongeBob's beloved pet snail Gary is snail-napped, he and Patrick embark on an epic adventure to The Lost City of Atlantic City to bring Gary home.
Author: Berardo, John, film director, screenwriter. LaVanchy, Lindsay, screenwriter, actor. Frager, Brian, screenwriter. Arntzen, Alexander, composer. Flaherty, Jessica, costume desginer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: HORROR INITIATI
Format: Video disc
Summary: During a university's pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school's dark secrets' and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.
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