Dennis Boutsikaris
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
62) Sandstorm
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum -- a devastating blast that sets off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world, as the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.
64) Exile
Author
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Wolfe's life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he's a successful San Francisco lawyer, he's about to get married, and he's being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif, the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school, he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco;...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman comes an extraordinary anthology of her best short writing. Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman's riveting tales of murder, mystery, and family ties most sinister and deadly. Among the first-rate short mysteries in this collection: the brand new "Garden of Eden" and "Open House" feature the famous sleuthing duo Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus; "Bull's-Eye"...
Author
Publisher
Encore, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy army across the mountainous Afghanistan terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators as they rode into the city. Then the action took a wholly...
67) Agent 6: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
A former member of Russia's secret police must stay behind when his wife and two daughters travel to New York and become involved in a political conspiracy that turns tragic.
Author
Publisher
Time Warner AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Etna Bliss has just moved to the New England town where her uncle teaches college when her life is transformed in a single stroke. She is dining ia a hotel downtown when a fire forces her to escape to the snowy streets outside. Amid the smoke and chaos standing under a streetlight is the man who was dining in the same room-a man who is so overwhelmed by the sight of her that he rebuilds his life around a single goal: to marry Etna Bliss. That man...
69) The assassin
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Tommy Carmellini embarks on his most perilous mission yet when he is called in to help prevent a puzzling terrorist plot. What he doesn't know is that Al Qaeda leader Abu Qasim is willing to pay the New York mafia a small fortune in order to help him successfully carry out a massive terror attack. Can Tommy prevent this horrific plan, or will America be left in shock once again?
71) The Inherited
Author
Language
English
Description
Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin.
74) Game change
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
℗2010
Language
English
Description
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin chronicle the historical 2008 United States presidential election. From Barack Obama's rise to the Oval Office to the Sarah Palin blunder that may have cost the Republicans the election, Heilemann and Halperin offer an inside look into one of the most momentous occasions in American history.
Author
Series
Clay Edison volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clay Edison has his hands full. He's got a new baby who won't sleep. He's working the graveyard shift. And he's trying, for once, to mind his own business. Then comes the first call. Workers demolishing a local park have made a haunting discovery: the decades-old skeleton of a child. But whose? And how did it get there? No sooner has Clay begun to investigate than he receives a second call'this one from a local businessman, wondering if the body could...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A devoted housekeeper embarks on a quest to find the truth behind her employer's murder. A washed-up Hollywood actor gets one last, high-stakes chance to revive his career. A man makes an impulsive visit to his hometown, and learns more about his past than he bargained for. Two Olympic track hopefuls receive terrorist threats. And Deaver's beloved series characters Lincoln Rhyme, Kathryn Dance, and John Pellam return in stories.
77) Strange Weather
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio, HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." On a seemingly ordinary...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Whitney is not looking for a romantic commitment. Her friend, Dee convinces her that the easiest, no strings attached, solution is to go to a particular bar in in New York City and hire a gigolo for the evening. Jimmy is hoping to get lucky and is mistakenly hired by Whitney for a night of wild sex, that ultimately ends in love.
79) Matchup
Publisher
Audioworks / Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This takes the never before seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist, gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Season two dives headfirst into the sweltering heat of a Chicago summer, grabs Gallagher family life by the throat, and never lets go. Boozed-up Frank's scams constantly fizzle. Grammy Gallagher visits after a prison stint. Bipolar Monica returns to fan Frank's flames. Fiona plays the field--until Steve comes back with a hot new wife. Lip drops out to care for his and Karen's baby. Ian's gunning for West Point.