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1) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
3) Small steps
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
4) Nemesis
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
474 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Waking up with no memory of the dinner he had shared with a former girlfriend, investigator Harry Hole is shocked to learn that the woman had committed suicide after their evening together and pursues a suspicion that foul play is involved.
Author
Series
Woods Hole quartet volume 1
Language
English
Description
Marine biologist Cassie Boulton likes her coffee with cream and her literature with happy endings. Her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice, but Cassie has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab. Silent and aloof, Calder Westing III doesn't seem to offer anything but a famous family name. But there is more to Calder than meets the eye, and he can't get enough of Cassie Boulton. Especially after one passionate night by the sea....
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
452 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist.. . Marine biologist Cassie Boulton has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab on Cape Cod. Proud, aloof Calder Westing III is the scion of a famous political family, while Cassie's success is hard-won in spite of a shameful family history. When their budding romance is brutally thwarted, both by his family and by hers, Calder tries to set things right by rewriting the two of them in...
8) Nemesis
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Nesbø's storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment." —USA Today
Detective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal bank robberies and the suspicious suicide of a female artist in this clever and harrowing installment in the Harry Hole series from the author of The Snowman.
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...9) The snowman
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Language
English
Description
"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--
10) The Devil's Star
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
It seems the city of Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. Only he is not happy with his colleague Tom Waaler, whom he suspects of arms smuggling and murder. A previous Jo Nesbø title was voted best Norwegian crime novel of all time.
11) The leopard
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Language
English
Description
In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with inexplicable puncture wounds. The police are running out of options. Deeply traumatised by a previous investigation, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens. But with his father seriously ill, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his instinct takes...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Meaty, gripping, full of tantalizing twists” (Associated Press), this installment of the international bestselling series brings Inspector Harry Hole back from Hong Kong hot on the trail of a serial killer.
Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media...
Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media...
13) The Redbreast
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century.
1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with...
1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
563 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
"Maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair
One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared....
"Maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair
One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared....
Author
Series
Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole volume 1
Language
English
Description
Forget everything you thought you knew and see how deep the rabbit hole goes in this psychological horror series co/written by both bestselling writer Raven Gregory (Wonderland Trilogy, Fly) and up-and-coming wordsmith Pat Shand (Unleashed, Robyn Hood).
17) Chipmunk's hole
Author
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at chipmunk burrows and how chipmunks use them to stay safe, store food, hibernate, and raise young.
18) Fox's den
Author
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this book, young readers will learn about the fox's habitat and home"--Provided by publisher.
19) Phantom
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong--fleeing the traumas of life as a cop--he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “addictive page-turner” (Los Angeles Times)—Inspector Harry Hole attempts to exonerate his would-be son Oleg in this installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
When Harry Hole moved to Hong Kong, he thought he was escaping the traumas of his life in Oslo and his career as a detective for good. But now, the unthinkable has happened—Oleg, the boy he helped...
When Harry Hole moved to Hong Kong, he thought he was escaping the traumas of his life in Oslo and his career as a detective for good. But now, the unthinkable has happened—Oleg, the boy he helped...
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