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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
2) The guilty
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Series
Language
English
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When his father is charged with murder and refuses to do anything to prove his innocence, Will Robie returns as an outsider to his hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi--where is he is met with distrust--to conduct his own investigation.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 23
Language
English
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Description
"Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly). Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His plan is to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road in rural New Hampshire, deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to...
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Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller, following 2014's bestseller Suspicion. When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into--and renovate--the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril--and change everything he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Recruited by the U.S. Marshals to create false histories for people in witness protection, like his father, writer Jack Givins uses this opportunity to find his dad--a man who has done terrible things and made deadly enemies who wouldn't think twice about using his own son against him.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
10) Just like dad
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Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Little Critter wants to be just like his dad, whether he is hitting a baseball, cutting the grass, cooking eggs, or going to work.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck volume 8
Language
English
Description
Intrepid Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is entreated by his former governor father for help representing him and investigating the suspicious hunting death of the vice president.
13) The extra yard
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.
16) The road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family.
18) East of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.--encounter unexpected dangers.