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Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
2) Dawnshard
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a ghost ship is discovered near the stormy island Akinah, Navani Kholin sends an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands.
3) The walk
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life.
4) Less is lost
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Less, after the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis, sets out on a literary adventure across the United States, during which he must finally face his personal demons.
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
7) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The searing, post apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"With his dying words, H---Jacob's final connection to his grandfather Abes's secret life--entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known as V"
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Clara Estby is hauled by her mother, Helga, on a 7,000-mile walk from Spokane, Wash., to New York in 1896. The fashion industry is looking for promotion of the new, shorter dress for women; Helga is looking for a cash prize to save the family farm from foreclosure ... and Clara dreams of becoming a businesswoman.
10) Walking on water
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this fifth entry in the New York Times bestselling Walk series, Richard Paul Evans's hero Alan Christoffersen must say some painful goodbyes and learn some important lessons as he comes to the end of his cross-country walk to Key West"--Provided by publisher.
12) Gully's travels
Author
Publisher
Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When his beloved owner falls in love with a woman who is allergic to long-haired dogs, Gulliver is given away to his doorman and the pooch's wonderful life of leisure comes to a dramatic end after he moves in with his new owner's family in their cramped home in Queens.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who then places Hack's son Ishmael squarely in the cross hairs of a plot to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ. Along the way, we meet three extraordinary women: Ruby Dansen, the Danish immigrant who is Ishmael's mother and Hackberry's one...
15) This tender land
Author
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an...
16) Riding shotgun
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo travels to Ratzikistan to help his grandfather write a guide book about this remote area.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen continues his physical and spiritual journey across the country.
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