Peter Abrahams
2) Nerve damage
Author
Language
English
Description
Roy Valois has been given four months to live. Curious, he hacks into the New York Times to read his impending obituary and notices a discrepancy in the information about his deceased wife Delia, who Roy believes died accidentally. As he digs around, Roy realizes Delia led a secret life. The more he learns, the less he feels he knew his wife at all. And now the clock is ticking on his time to learn the truth.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
5) Oblivion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator Nick Petrov achieved celebrity status after apprehending serial killer Gerald Reasoner. When a woman retains his services to track down her missing daughter, Nick senses all is not as it seems. But then he suffers a head trauma, and large gaps appear in his memory. Bizarre clues lead him to believe that he must revisit the Reasoner case to solve the mystery he has been plunged into--even as a mounting sense of dread indicates...
10) Quacky baseball
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.
11) Bullet point
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
15) The fan
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A rabid San Francisco Giants fan targets a $40 million player and a game becomes a matter of life and death.