Ron McLarty
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English
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Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances like A Walk in the Woods and Travels With Charley. What fewer people realize is that he's also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel, available exclusively as an audiobook, McLarty takes listeners on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero.
Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost...
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Language
English
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Author of the acclaimed novel The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty is an American original whose infectious prose will swiftly ensnare any reader. Art in America tells the story of unknown writer Steven Kearney, an aging man whose lifelong commitment to his art finally brings him to homelessness in NYC. Then miraculously he receives an invitation to become playwright in residence of a troubled Rocky Mountain town.
4) Inch By Inch
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Language
English
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To keep from being eaten, a resourceful inchworm measures a robins tail, a flamingo;s neck, a toucans beak, a herons legs, and a nightingales song.
5) The dropper
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Against the 1922 union strikes in England, a young man, after inadvertently killing a man in a fight, must decide whether to stay in England to provide for his alcoholic father and mentally slow brother or to start a new life in America, alone
6) Traveler
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Visiting his working-class childhood home in Rhode Island after learning that his first girlfriend has passed away, a part-time actor remembers his coming of age at the sides of three best friends, a period that was marked by mysterious shootings
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Series
John Puller novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
10) Decision points
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 33
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English
Description
Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life while writing honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments
11) Memory man
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Series
Amos Decker novels volume 1
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English
Description
More than a year after the most tragic event in Amos Decker's life, a man confesses to murdering his family, and Amos, called to help with the investigation, struggles with the memories.
12) True blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
Fresh out of prison, a disgraced ex-cop, along with the help of her police chief sister, aids a lawyer trying to track down the killer of one of his law partners, all while a U.S. attorney looks for any reason to put the ex-cop back behind bars
13) Zero day
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Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
14) King and Maxwell
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Series
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English
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The teenage son of an U.S. MIA in Afghanistan hires Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?
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English
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After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best-sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people...
16) First family
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits
17) Divine justice
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Having assassinated the two men who had been inhibiting his freedom, John Carr becomes the target of a manhunt involving the highest levels of the U.S. government, prompting the leader of the Camel Club to launch an investigation that tests the resources of the club
18) The sixth man
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Series
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English
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After the lawyer of an institutionalized alleged serial killer Edgar Roy ends up dead, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell must figure out whether Roy is really a killer or if other evil is afoot
19) Stone cold
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Protecting a con artist from a vengeful casino king, Oliver Stone and his colleagues at the Camel Club find their efforts further challenged by a ruthless killer who targets Stone by threatening to reveal his mysterious past
20) The whole truth
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While the head of the world's largest defense contractor conspires to gain even more riches by instigating a war, an intelligence agent reluctantly travels to keep the world safe, and a journalist receives a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre