Stephanie Rayle's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780425210277 | Predator (Scarpetta) | Cornwell, Patricia | dr. Kay Scarpetta, Now Freelancing With The National Forensic Academy In Florida, Takes Charge Of A Case That Stretches From Steamy Florida To Snowbound Boston; One That At First Appears As Unnerving As Any She Has Ever Faced. The Teasing Psychological Clues Lead Scarpetta And Her Team-pete Marino, Benton Wesley, And Lucy Farinelli-to Suspect That They Are Hunting Someone With A Cunning And Malevolent Mind Whose Secrets Have Kept Them In The Shadows, Until Now. predator Is Proof Once Again That Patricia Cornwell Has Few Peers With Her Extraordinary Ability To Entertain And Enthrall.the New York Times - Marilyn Stasiothe Contrived Plot That Drags Scarpetta Out Of The Classroom And Onto The Killing Fields In Pursuit Of A Madman…plays Out In Too Fragmented A Form To Sustain Much Suspense. But Cornwell Opens Up A Fascinating New Field For Scarpetta When She Involves Her In The Study That Her Lover, A Forensic Psychologist, Is Conducting Up In Boston With Compulsive Murderers—terminology He Considers More Scientifically Exact Than Serial Killers. Whatever You Call Them, They Have The Author's Attention Here, And When She Isn't Too Busy Doling Out Bits Of Business To Scarpetta's Posse Of Co-sleuths, Cornwell Brings Them To Full, Frightening Life. | Berkley |
| 9780486284736 | Pride And Prejudice (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels) | Jane Austen | Dover Publications | |
| 9780553299502 | Private Eyes | Kellerman, Jonathan | Bantam | |
| 9781416500407 | Pygmalion (Enriched Classics) | Shaw, George Bernard | A success on the stage, a popular film and a musical hit (My Fair Lady), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. | Simon & Schuster |
| 9780590446518 | Sarah Bishop | Scott O'Dell | Scholastic Paperbacks | |
| 9780486268781 | Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry) | Walt Whitman | Generous Sampling From Leaves Of Grass. Twenty-four Poems Include I Hear America Singing, Song Of The Open Road, I Sing The Body Electric, When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd, O Captain! My Captain!--all Reprinted From An Authoritative Edition. Lists Of Titles And First Lines. Walt Whitman. Contains Poems Reprinted From A Standard Edition Of Leaves Of Grass--t.p. Verso. Includes Indexes. | Dover Publications |
| 9780553572209 | Self-Defense | Kellerman, Jonathan | Bantam | |
| 9780590458962 | Shadow Of The Red Moon | Myers, Walter Dean | In this extraordinary fantasy novel from Newbery Honor winning author Walter Dean Myers, 15-year-old Jon leaves his home in Crystal City on a journey through the Wilderness, where shocking truths are revealed. As the Fens attack his home in New City, fifteen-year-old Jon is sent into the Wilderness with other young Okalians to search for the Ancient City, but what he finds is something very different. | Scholastic |
| 9780553560275 | Shadows: A Novel | Saul, John | they Call It The Academy. A Secluded, Cliff-top Mansion Overlooking The Rugged Pacific Coast. A School For Children Gifted — Or Cursed — With Extraordinary Minds. Children Soon To Come Under The Influence Of An Intelligence Even More Brilliant Than Their Own — And Unspeakably Evil. For Within This Mind A Dark Plan Is Taking Form. A Plan So Horrifying, No One Will Believe It. No One But The Children. And For Them It Is Already Too Late. Too Late, Unless One Young Student Can Resist The Seductive Invitation That Will Lead... Into The shadows.publishers Weeklyafter A Very Slow First Half, Saul ( Darkness , The God Project ) Picks Up The Pace And Delivers Aword? Tense, High-tech Psychological Suspense Thriller. Ten-year-old Genius Josh Maccallum Is Bored, Lonely And Almost Always Angry At His Older, Teasing Classmates. After He Attempts Suicide, His Frantic Single Mother Jumps At The Chance To Enroll Him In The Academy, A School For Very Gifted Kids In Northern California. Run By Aloof Dr. Engersol And Matronly Housemother Hildiehildie Not Hidie/eed , The School, Which Occupies An Old Mansion, Offers Josh A Friend In Another `fellow Genius' Awk When Describing A Woman Genius, Amy Carlson. Trouble Surfaces When A 12-year-old Kills Himself, But Calm Returns As Hildie Dispenses Hugs And Common Sense. Soon After Josh And Amy Are Picked For An Advanced ``seminar,'' Engersol And Hildie Are Revealed As Nasty And The Mad-scientist Plot Hurtles To A Violent Conclusion Featuring Dueling Brains?? Josh And Amy's? Unclear You're Absolutely Right But I'm Afraid It Will Have To Stand As Is. I Can't Reach The Reviewer, And Altho I Have The Galley, Connected To A Mainframe Computer. The Novel's Padded Beginning And Only Serviceable Prose Are Tolerable `lesser' Implies Comparison W Greater Flaws, Not W Virtues Flaws In Light Of Saul's Chilling Conceit, Hildie's Jarring Comeuppance And A Delightful Final Twist. 150,000 First Printing. (june) | Bantam |
| 9780689836022 | Silent To The Bone | Konigsburg, E.L. | Speechless Connor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn't have hurt Branwell's baby half sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in a coma, and Branwell is in a juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a horrible crime and unable to utter the words to tell what really happened. Connor is the only one who might be able to break through Branwell's wall of silence. But how can he prove Branwell didn't commit the unspeakable act of which he's accused -- when Branwell can't speak for himself? When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened. | Aladdin |
| 9780553251999 | Singin' And Swingin' And Gettin' Merry Like Christmas | Angelou, Maya | Bantam | |
| 9780380705818 | Soldiers Of Paradise | Park, Paul | Avon Books | |
| 9780449702932 | Sons From Afar (The Tillerman Series #6) | Voigt, Cynthia | Fawcett Juniper | |
| 9780345406958 | Story Of The Other Wise Man | Van Dyke, Henry | "I do not know where this little story came from--out of the air, perhaps. One thing is certain, it is not written in any other book, nor is it to be found among the ancient lore of the East. And yet I have never felt as if it were my own. It was a gift, and it seemed to me as if I knew the Giver." --Henry Van Dyke Long, long ago, a wise man named Artaban, a priest of the Magi, discerned from heavenly signs that the time was at hand for the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy--the birth among the Hebrews of a holy Prince and Deliverer of Man. Hastening to join three fellow Magi for the long journey into Judaea, he paused to help a dying man and was left behind. And so Artaban began his pilgrimage alone, striking out not toward the realization of his life's deepest longing, as he hoped, but only toward misfortune and suffering. Or so he believed until one blessed, radiant moment. With an introduction by Leo Buscaglia Because he is helping others, a fourth Wise Man delays journeying with the other Magi to see the newborn Jesus, but thirty-three years later he has an unusual opportunity to meet his Savior. | Ballantine Books |
| 9780141306360 | Summer Of My German Soldier (Young Puffin) | Greene, Bette | When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And Patty is willing to risk losing family, friends--even her freedom--for what has quickly become the most important part of her life. Thoughtful, moving, and hard-hitting, Summer of My German Soldier has become a modern classic.<P>Courageous and compelling! --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><P>An exceptionally fine novel. --<i>The New York Times</i><P>* A Puffin Novel <br>* 208 pages<br>* Ages 10-14<P>* A 1973 National Book Award Finalist<br>* An ALA Notable Book<br>* A <i>New York Times</i> Outstanding Book of the Year When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship. | Puffin Books |
| 9780553263664 | The Actor's Scenebook: Scenes And Monologues From Contemporary Plays | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler | Here is wonderful, up-to-date material for scene study, selected from the best plays from recent theater seasons. More than 20 monologues for both men and women, carefully chosen to display the widest range of dramatic ability, are essential for auditioning actors. A large selection of parts for woman provide exciting opportunities to sharpen acting skills in roles that brought accolades from New York's toughest critics. More than 80 scenes in all, many previously unpublished, allow every actor, professional, amateur or student, to choose from either smart, sassy, often outrageous comedy or deeply moving drama—a unique, balanced collection of the most successful contemporary plays. 84 fully playable scenes with story notes. Monologues from the best new plays—including Agnes of God, Sly Fox, Key Exchange and Nuts. The best contemporary selection of scenes for women—more than 50 in all. Schulman and Mekler provide 78 new, fully playable scenes with story notes, including more monologues for men and women from today's best new plays. A diverse selection of scenes and characters to challenge the full range of readers' talents as actors. Reissue. | Bantam |
| 9780525510277 | The Alienist (TNT Tie-In Edition): A Novel (The Alienist Series) | Carr, Caleb | The Year Is 1896. The City Is New York. Newspaper Reporter John Schuyler Moore Is Summoned By His Friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler--a Psychologist, Or Alienist--to View The Horribly Mutilated Body Of An Adolescent Boy Abandoned On The Unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From There The Two Embark On A Revolutionary Effort In Criminology: Creating A Psychological Profile Of The Perpetrator Based On The Details Of His Crimes. Their Dangerous Quest Takes Them Into The Tortured Past And Twisted Mind Of A Murderer Who Will Kill Again Before Their Hunt Is Over--from The Publisher. | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| 9780345447869 | The Apprentice- Tess Gerritsen | Gerritsen, Tess | The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns and so does that chilling novel s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly. Filled with superbly created characters and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.Publishers WeeklyFor the first time since she moved from mass market originals to hardcover (with 1996's Harvest), Gerritsen offers a sequel to last year's bestselling The Surgeon. It's a smart move, as in that novel this popular author introduced a terrific lead character, Jane Rizzoli, a female Boston homicide detective who rivals Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta for intensity and complexity. Her nemesis, serial killer Warren Hoyt, aka the Surgeon, whom Rizzoli sent to prison, returns here, too; that's not so terrific, as he's basically a Hannibal Lecter clone, though Gerritsen does pair him up this time with a second serial killer, known among cops as the Dominator. The discovery of the corpse of one of the Dominator's victims in a ritzy Boston suburb gets the action moving. Rizzoli notes connections between the Dominator's handiwork and that of Hoyt, and visits Hoyt behind bars. Eventually it's revealed that Hoyt and the Dominator have contacted one another by mail. Hoyt escapes and links up with the Dominator, and it's no surprise that Rizzoli is their number one target. The novel is suspenseful and stuffed with an encyclopedia's worth of tightly detailed forensic lore. Rizzoli gets a new love interest (Hoyt killed her last one, in The Surgeon), an FBI agent, which is handled with realism and subtlety, but her fuming at man's inhumanity to woman may grate on male readers. There are first-person italicized passages from Hoyt's point of view, a genre clich , and at times the grisliness of the murders tends toward sensationalism. This strong thriller should sell very well, but it's not Gerritsen's best. (Aug. 20) Forecast: The return of Rizzoli, a major ad/promo campaign and an 8-city author tour should counterbalance any less-than-enthusiastic word of mouth. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. | Ballantine Books |
| 9780440901839 | The Arm Of The Starfish | L'Engle, Madeleine | Laurel Leaf | |
| 9780545942607 | The Best Teen Writing Of 2015 (Best Teen Writing From The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards) | Coplen, Michaela | Scholastic, Incorporated |