Craig Wasson
Author
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
Author
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 2
Language
English
Description
"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)-- a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain...
5) Perfidia
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.
6) 1922
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wilfred James owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in his family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres. She wants to sell her land but if she does, Wilfred will be forced to sell as well. James will do anything to hold onto his farm, and he'll get his son to go along. Betrayal, murder, madness, rats, 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (374 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, 92 min.): A razor-nailed maniac kills children in their dreams.
Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's revenge (1985, 87 min.): A new kid on Elm Street is being haunted every night by gruesome visions of Freddy Krueger, the dream stalker.
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream warriors (1987, 96 min.): Killer Freddie Krueger is back for fresh victims. The last of the Elm Street kids are now at a psychiatric ward where Freddy...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq—a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively. From the Pentagon to the White House to the American command centers in the field,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Killer Freddie Krueger is back for fresh victims. The last of the Elm Street kids are now at a psychiatric ward where Freddy haunts their dreams with horror. Their only hope is dream researcher and fellow survivor Nancy Thompson who helps them battle the psycho on his own hellish turf.
