Jay O. Sanders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
2) Catch-22
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
3) Cross fire
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross encounters his most explosive case ever as a D. C. assassin picks off politicians . . . and his most deadly enemy is waiting to kill everyone he loves.
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked...
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A mining operation in Colombia opened a window into an unknown period of the Earth's history where a world with giant creatures emerged. The biggest of them all was Titanoboa, a 43-foot snake, the largest that ever lived. New discoveries suggest that Titanoboa's rule was challenged by a giant crocodilian. Experiments reveal unmatched hunting prowess. So which one was the apex predator 58 million years ago?
6) The silence
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kathleen Martinez, criminal lawyer turned maverick archaeologist, searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb. Very little evidence remains of Egypt's last queen, but Kathleen's radical new theory about the real Cleopatra has led her to look where no one else has dared and her hunch is paying off. Could Kathleen be closing in on Cleopatra's final resting place?
9) Mortal fear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A killer is preying on the women who use EROS, an erotic on-line computer network patronized by the rich and famous. Only Harper Cole, EROS's reclusive system operator, can stop him. To trap the killer, Cole assumes the on-line identity of a woman who fits the the FBI's victim profile--a woman with secrets powerful enough to draw the killer into the open.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ninety years ago in Egypt the greatest archaeological find in history was made: the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb and its golden treasures. But the real story has become shrouded in myth, with many mysteries around the tomb unsolved to this day. This 120 minute special brings together the latest evidence from a team of archaeologists, anatomists, geologists, and Egyptologists, to build the ultimate picture of Tutankhamen.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Following the murder of a couple by their eleven-year old son, Detective Harry Ambrose returns to his hometown in rural New York to assess the unsettling and heart wrenching crime. He finds himself pitted against those who'll stop at nothing to protect its secrets.
13) Earth from space
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Using data from NASA scientists, explores the web of forces that sustain life on Earth.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 2011, a group of amateur historians made an incredible archaeological find: the bones of King Richard III, hunchbacked, with an arrow through the spine. Now, scientists are testing the bones to find out more about the king and also conducting fascinating experiments to determine whether Richard could have fought so ferociously in battle with such a severe deformity.
19) After Stonehenge
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologists have long believed that while the Egyptians were building pyramids 3,000 years ago, nothing was happening in Western Europe, but a new discovery shows something far different. Five years ago, the remains of an incredible, ancient site began to emerge from a quarry in eastern England. Due to its delicate nature, experts have largely been working in secret, until now.