Aidan Quinn
Author
Description
A heartfelt father/daughter tale inspired by the heart-wrenching true story. When Nicki discovers two horses stranded deep in the snow, she is determined to get them off the mountain...somehow. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path of deep snow, inspiring first her father, Matt, and then the entire community to band together in the spirit of Christmas.
2) Spiked
Author
Description
Inspired by the real-life events surrounding a US border town newspaper publisher, the local chief of police, and the murder of a migrant worker that escalated into a feud that lead to the blurring of the truth and a dirty fight for justice
6) Songcatcher
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
7) Plainsong
Series
Description
A heartbroken husband has been abandoned by his wife with two boys to raise. His sympathetic colleague cares for her ailing father. A pregnant high school girl is thrown out of her house with nowhere to go. A couple of bachelors set in their ways face a life-altering challenge. Gradually drawn together through simple acts of kindness and humanity, their paths are indelibly interwoven. With courage and tenacity, they redefine their lives, ease each...
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
9) Songcatcher
10) Blacklight
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When a government operative with a troubled past discovers a plot which poses a threat to U.S. citizens, he crosses paths with the FBI director he once helped to protect.
11) Unknown
Formats
Description
Some intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sexual content.
Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally, Harris plunges into a deadly mystery, forcing him to question his sanity, his...
12) Blink
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Thriller about a blind musician who regains her sight only to witness a murder. Because her restored vision is blurred the police are reluctant to believe her- all, that is, but a handsome detective.
Series
Elementary volume The Fifth Season
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The erratic, unpredictable, and intellectually incomparable detective Sherlock Holmes cracks case after case for the NYPD with the help of his ever-reliable partner Joan Watson. The balance of this time-tested team shifts as Holmes and Watson face difficult personal choices and impossible crimes. From a murderous drug gang to a rogue intelligence agency, the threats have never been starker. And from snake venom-laced meals, to invisible gunshots,...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Marvin's room: a disfunctional family takes a journey of self-discovery and reconciliation and learns to reach out to one another.
Music of the heart: a single mother with little more than talent and the dertermination to make a difference teaches violin to students in a tough inner-city neighborhood.
House of spirits: the core of the epic tale spanning three generations of the Trueba family is the stormy, yet passionate, relationship between the...
16) The last keepers
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
When the teenage daughter of the last survivors of an ancient line of Goddess worshipers falls in love with a poetic boy at school, she awakens mysterious magical powers of her own and discovers family secrets that will change her life forever.
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A contemporary take on the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, who investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD and is assisted by Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes's wealthy father to help keep the eccentric detective sober.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A heartfelt father/daughter tale inspired by the heart-wrenching true story. When Nicki discovers two horses stranded deep in the snow, she is determined to get them off the mountain...somehow. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path of deep snow, inspiring first her father, Matt, and then the entire community to band together in the spirit of Christmas.
19) Dark Matter
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Elite local patron, Joanna Silver, welcomes Liu Xing, a Chinese student, to Valley State University. He enters the university with dreams of fame and a Nobel Prize. Cultural differences and school politics threaten his ambitions and result in unimaginable violence.
20) The 5th quarter
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After his younger brother is killed in an accident, rising Wake Forest University football star Jon Abbate is inspired to lead his team to a series of last-minute victories in his memory.
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