Anthony Horowitz
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Branlow Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late author...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 4
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books, he's ending their collaboration. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open in London's West End. The play is panned by critics-- Sunday Times critic Harriet Throsby is particularly savage, especially about the writing. The next day she is stabbed in the heart by an ornamental dagger-- one belonging to Anthony, and with his fingerprints all over it. When a...
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
10) Groosham Grange
Author
Series
Groosham Grange series volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2008], 1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
196 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.
Author
Series
Groosham Grange series volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
To save Groosham Grange, the strange boarding school he attends where ghosts and ghouls rule the academy and students study witchcraft, David Eliot must win the Unholy Grail, a magical cup awarded to the star pupil.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
192 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
274, 17 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
182 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1593, thirteen-year-old Tom travels through the English countryside to London, where he falls in with a troupe of actors and finds himself in great danger from several sources.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Series
Foyle's war volume Set 8
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed detective series returns with three new mysteries set in the uncertain days at the beginning of the Cold War.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen, complete U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
19) The Gathering
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American backpacking in rural England has her life taking a turn for the worse after a car accident. During recovery, she is befriended by a researcher studying a buried 1st Century church embedded with images of Christ's crucifixion. She begins to have horrific visions of the townspeople and their deaths.