- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 4
Description
Orphaned Ayla, and wandering Jondalar, set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, looking for a place they can call home. In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and dangerous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well.
Author
Formats:
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
3) The chamber
Author
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
In 1967, Mississippi Clan member Sam Cayhall's trial for bombing a law office ends in a hung jury. In 1979, an ambitious DA reopens the case and Cayhall is convicted. In 1990, a young Chicago lawyer, Adam Hall, asks to work on the case. With time running out and Cayhall facing the death penalty, what is Hall's interest?
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam."
Author
Formats:
eBooks
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
6) The partner
Author
On Shelf
Hooksett - Large Print Books - Lower Level - Prescott Room
LP FIC GRISHAM, J
1 available
LP FIC GRISHAM, J
1 available
eBooks
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Patrick Lanigan was once a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then he stole ninety million dollars from his own firm and ran for his life. For four years, he's evaded powerful men. Then, inevitably, they tracked him down at the edge of a Brazilian jungle. Patrick is coming home to the Mississippi city where it all began. As the trial begins, Patrick's former partners wait for their revenge. But another story is...
7) The talisman
Author
Series
Jack Sawyer series volume 1
Formats:
Available Online
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman--the only thing that can save Jack's dying mother. But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the breadth of the United States but also through the wondrous and menacing parallel world of the Territories. In the Territories, Jack finds another realm, where the air is so sweet and clear a man can smell...
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 3
Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare's colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Ayla is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, healing skills, and fire-making technique. Here she meets Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory, whom she cannot refuse, inciting Jondalar to a fierce jealousy. Now she must choose between the...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Hooksett - Fiction - Storage - Ask at Desk
STACK FIC KING, S
1 available
STACK FIC KING, S
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 19 people are on the wait list.
Description
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 6
On Shelf
Hooksett - Fiction - Adult Room
FIC CLANCY, T v.04
1 available
FIC CLANCY, T v.04
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
The assassinations of the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the F.B.I. by Colombian drub lords trigger a mysterious covert response and an investigation of U.S. and Colombian actions by Jack Ryan.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 1
eBooks
Description
The harrowing story of a man with no memory--Jason Bourne--an assassin hunted by unseen armies for reasons he doesn't remember. A shooting victim, suffering from amnesia, finds himself with a Swiss bank account in the name of Jason Bourne, a professional assassin being manipulated by a top-secret American government organization to kill his arch rival, the dreaded Carlos.
12) Firestarter
Author
Series
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known--8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want--and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded--and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon.
Author
Formats:
Description
Alex Wolff, a master spy, is on a mission to steal British military plans in World War II Cairo, and British officer Major Vandam must thwart him.
14) Random winds
Author
Series
Formats:
Description
The saga of three generations of doctors in the Farrell family begins with a country doctor at the turn of the century in rural New York.
Author
Description
A novel narrated by the middle son in a family of five children, one bear, and one dog. Describes the Berry family growing up in three different hotels on two separate continents.
16) Cujo
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (The Man, The Woman, and The Boy) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes...
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 2
Available Online
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Ayla travels to a hidden valley where she lives with a herd of steppe horses, and rescues Jondalar, one of the "Others", from certain death.
Author
Formats:
Description
Just before World War I, two men--one a noble Russian emissary, the other a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events.
19) Christine
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"It's love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale--dubbed "Christine" by its original cantankerous owner--rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie's never had much luck in the popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car...but Christine quickly changes...
Author
Series
Formats:
Description
The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon - all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence,...