Sophie Aldred
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (44 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Get ready for super-sized fun with Bob the Builder and the Can-Do Crew in these four exciting adventures! Scrambler wants to be a Super- Smasher hero while he builds Farmer Pickles' milk shed. When Scratch tries to make a dream room come true, it almost turns into a building nightmare. And Roley is on a mission to find a lost document but ends up getting lost himself.
Author
Series
Scarlett and Browne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her wits - and never looking back. She's on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgement, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett's used to being...
Author
Series
Scarlett and Browne volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Albert and Scarlett are a formidable pair. With his ability to read minds and her way with a weapon, no bank can keep them out and no jail can keep them in. But their notoriety may have spread a bit too far. Now old enemies from Scarlett's past and a sinister new threat from Albert's world are boxing them in--and holding their friends hostage. To win their freedom, the outlaws Scarlett and Browne are charged with pulling off an impossible mission....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long...
Author
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding slice of Cornish Gothic — a Daphne du Maurier for the 21st century! Piers Torday
Zed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother's mental health.
Gradually the family fall apart, and it is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working together to find...
Author
Language
English
Description
Short stories that make a novel. Set in Cornwall, coastal erosion and flooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and flow with the tide.
From one maritime tragedy to another, the community, and three generations of women from the same family, struggle with their over-close affinity for the sea.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways...
8) The Daughter
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios-kidnapping, murder-seem less plausible. The trail...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Fantastic Race is a tale of fast cars, incredible racing and amazing challenges. Two schoolfriends drive across Europe in the car of their dreams. To make it better, no adults allowed. The story takes place in Europe's most famous cities, and shows how intuition, passion and practice go a long way. Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for the ride.
11) The Fearmonger
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One would-be assassin is in a mental ward. Another's on the run. Their intended victim is stirring up the mobs. Terrorists are planning a strike of their own. It'll only take a little push for the situation to erupt - and something is doing the pushing.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
George travels to the future in the epic conclusion of the George's Secret Key series from Lucy Hawking.
When George finds a way to escape the spacecraft Artemis, where he has been trapped, he is overjoyed. Surely now he can return to Earth.
But when George touches down, he knows immediately that something is wrong. There's a barren wasteland where his home town used to be, intelligent robots roam the streets, and no one will talk to George about...
13) Dust Breeding
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Doctor's diary indicates that Edvard Munch's The Scream is about to be destroyed in 'mysterious circumstances', and when he and Ace arrive on the barren dust world Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway...
14) The Rapture
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ibiza 1997, and thousands of young people are acting like mindless zombies. God has sent help from on high to save the sinners of Ibiza. He has sent His angels to save their souls.
15) Colditz
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
October 1944: a Nazi defeat in WW2 seems almost inevitable. Two intruders are captured in Colditz Castle. At first, the guards think they're dealing with British spies. But with the TARDIS in their hands, the Third Reich might triumph after all...
18) The Dark Flame
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A thousand years ago, the evil Cult of the Dark Flame infiltrated every star system in the galaxy. But for some the Dark Flame still burns. For some, its horrifying power remains the ultimate goal...