Search Results


Showing 1 - 20 of 303 query time: 0.07s
Book cover for "The last time she saw him".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The last time she saw him
Series:
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
As Kiki Reed heads out to a party at a friend's house in the Connecticut countryside, she's more than a little nervous. Her ex-fiancé, Jamie, a great guy who just wasn't "the one," will be attending, and she hasn't seen him since she broke his heart a few monthes earlier. But when they come face-to-face, their exchange is brief and pleasant, which is a huge relief. Then, as the party is winding down, a noise pierces the night. The last few guests...
Book cover for "The last time she saw him".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The last time she saw him
Series:
Language:
English
Description:
Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother Ben—the person who promised he would always protect her—was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia’s memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she’s never found. But guilt...
Book cover for "The last time she saw him".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The last time she saw him
Author:
Language:
Other
Book cover for "Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
Book cover for "Persuasion".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Persuasion
Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"Published one year after its author's death in 1818, "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. On its most basic level, the book is a love story. On another level, it is a deft exploration of human foibles and social flux. Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement...
Book cover for "Life's too short".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Life's too short
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"Vanessa lives life on her own terms -- one day at a time, every day to its fullest. She can't afford to think about whether she has the same fatal genetic condition as her older sister. After all, she has way too much to do, traveling the globe and showing millions of YouTube followers the joy in seizing every moment. But lately, life has been anything but pure joy, and travel has come to an abrupt halt. After her younger step-sister drops off an...
Book cover for "The murder of Roger Ackroyd".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The murder of Roger Ackroyd
Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
A widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secrey affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study, but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. Kings Abbot is crawling with suspects and it's up to famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to solve the case.
Book cover for "You shouldn't have come here".
Rate this title:
Star rating for You shouldn't have come here
Author:
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
Overworked city gal Grace Evans is ready for a relaxing getaway on a Wyoming ranch, where the owner is handsome Calvin Wells. But when she hears of a missing woman, things soon change for the worse.
Book cover for "False witness".
Rate this title:
Star rating for False witness
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence. But now...
Book cover for "To the lighthouse".
Rate this title:
Star rating for To the lighthouse
Lexile measure:
1030L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi. "Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love." -Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm. The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the...
Book cover for "Stranger in paradise".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Stranger in paradise
Language:
English
Description:
The last time Jesse Stone, police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson “Crow” Cromartie, the Apache hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town’s history. Crow managed to escape with a boatload of cash, never to be seen again. Until now.
When Crow shows up in Jesse’s office some ten years after the crime, it’s not to turn himself in. Crow is...
Book cover for "Tripwire".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Tripwire
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Settling into a peaceful life in Key West, Reacher is disturbed when a stranger comes looking for him, a man who turns up dead in the Old Town cemetery and who leads him on a perilous trail to New York. Former military policeman Major Jack Reacher goes to the rescue of a 30-year-old woman lawyer he last saw when she was 15. She is the daughter of Reacher's late commanding officer and some nasty land swindlers want her dead. By the author of Die Trying....
Book cover for "Romeo and Juliet".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Romeo and Juliet
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Book cover for "Adventure Time".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Adventure Time
Author:
Publisher:
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Jake's "Crazy Party Where You Can Do Anything. I Will Reset the Timeline, I Promise" is in full swing! And after fixing the time machine PB broke* (*see issue #6!), Jake's about to make good on his promise-except this new time machine doesn't really time machine so much as send Finn and Jake into the bodies of their future selves! Uh . . . what's this about a robot apocalypse? Also featuring the backup story "Time Waits for No One"!
Book cover for "The Last Man".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The Last Man
Language:
English
Description:
The Last Man (1826) is a dystopian novel by Mary Shelley. Dedicated to the recently deceased Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, The Last Man was controversial upon publication and was immediately suppressed by British authorities. Resurrected by dedicated critics and readers, the novel is now recognized as a pioneering work of science fiction and as the first work of dystopian literature to be published in English. The ambitious and semi-autobiographical...
Book cover for "Brotherhood in death".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Brotherhood in death
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"Dennis Mira just had two unpleasant surprises. First he learned that his cousin Edward was secretly meeting with a real estate agent about their late grandfather's magnificent West Village brownstone, despite the promise they both made to keep it in the family. Then, when he went to the house to confront Edward about it, he got a blunt object to the back of the head. Luckily Dennis is married to Charlotte Mira, the NYPSD's top profiler and a good...
Book cover for "The gate keeper".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The gate keeper
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet. She swears she didn't kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in front of their motorcar, and without warning, fired a single shot before vanishing into the night. But there is no trace...
Book cover for "Too hard to handle".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Too hard to handle
Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
After the death of his wife, ex-military operative Dan Currington, with nothing left to lose, volunteers for a mission no one else wants and arrives in Peru to capture the rogue CIA agent selling government secrets to the highest bidder and finds the stakes raised even higher when he encounters a woman from his past.

19. Fable

Book cover for "Fable".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Fable
Series:
World of the Narrows volume 1
Fable volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home Fable has ever known. Four years ago she watched her mother drown during a storm-- and the next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she kept to herself, learned to trust no one and relied on the unique skills her mother taught her. Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the...
Book cover for "Not my father's son".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Not my father's son
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.