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Shipwreck (Detective Murdoch mystery.)
By Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.The call of the wild (Penguin classics #Set I)
By Jack London, Stephen Feinstein. 1999
Ivanhoe
By Walter Scott, Elizabeth V DiSomma, Mary Louise McTiernan. 1987
England during the time of Richard I is the background for this novel of chivalry. Among the characters are Robin…
Hood, King Richard, and Rebecca and Rowena, two beautiful women who love Ivanhoe. First published in 1819. (Simple English classics series)Anne of Green Gables
By L. M Montgomery. 1977
When Anne Shirley 'erupts' into their lives, the Cuthberts little guess how fond they will become of the skinny, red-haired…
orphan. Both entertained and exasperated by her constant chatter and imaginings, they soon find it hard to remember what Green Gables was like without its irrepressible adopted daughter. Followed by "Anne of Avonlea". Grades 5-8. 1977, c1908. (Anne of Green Gables ; 1)The thief
By Ruth Rendell. 2006
What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you. Stealing things from people who had upset her was…
something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger, Polly does what she always does - she steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results. 2006.The great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1953
The glitter and recklessness of the Jazz Age is the backdrop for this novel about Jay Gatsby's desperate attempt to…
recapture the past and, along with it, the love of Daisy Buchanan. Grade I braille.Cleanskin (Quick reads)
By Val McDermid. 2006
When career criminal Jack Farrell's body is found washed up on a Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like…
a clear-cut case. Heartbroken at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself-- good riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID. Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farrell's enemies are being killed. And the horrific manner of their deaths makes drowning look like a day at the beach. 2006.A judgement in stone
By Ruth Rendell. 1978
The author alternates between a journalistic dissection of the mass murder and a dramatic evocation of character to tell the…
story of the suburban Coverdales, their maid, Eunice, and Eunice's friend, a former prostitute turned religious fanatic.Detective Cross: Bookshots (Alex Cross #2)
By James Patterson. 2017
Uncontracted braille. James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. "The suspect is your patient, Dr. Cross." An anonymous caller has…
promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife, Bree Stone, uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late....