Peter Fernandez
Author
Publisher
Caedmon
Pub. Date
p1974.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1967, made its debut, igniting the first Japanese anime cartoon to ever succeed in the United States. Originally titled 'Mach GoGoGo,' the English dubbed series be thrilled as Speed racer, the intrepid young race car driver, races for the flag, chases notorious villains, and pursues fast-action adventures. Join the full-throttle excitement with an unforgettable supporting cast including Pops Racer; Trixie; Spritle; Chim Chim; and the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Newbery Award Records
Pub. Date
p1973.
Language
English
Description
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
50) City of bones
Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 8
Language
English
Description
When the bones of a twelve year old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past.
51) Bloodline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a pregnant woman is kidnapped by Somali pirates, Sigma Force, with the help of former army ranger Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog Kane, finds this rescue mission turning into a conspiracy of epic proportions.
52) The doomsday key
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Sigma Force must solve a centuries-old secret involving coded prophecies about dark events leading to a future apocalypse.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement.
The kidnapping and violent murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 was and is a uniquely American tragedy. Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi, when he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Three days
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 8
Language
English
Description
Army wives at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are murdered and their bodies painted blue.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 14
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Believing he is investigating the work of a horrible new breed of killer when he encounters a murder scene of particular violence at the home of his oldest friend, Detective Alex Cross finds himself entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington, D.C.
56) Roses are red
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 6
Language
English
Description
After a series of bank robberies in Virginia and Maryland, a tour bus is hijacked in D.C. Cross and an FBI team have less than two hours to deliver the demanded ransom.
57) Mary, Mary
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 11
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets a call from the director. An actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murder in shocking detail, signed Mary Smith.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 10
Language
English
Description
The Weasel is found and abducted from Brazil and sent on a mission to wipe out an American town in Nevada.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 9
Language
English
Description
At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
60) Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 12
Language
English
Description
Years after his wife Maria is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner, John Sampson, who wants his help on a case that reveals a connection to Maria's death.