Catalog Search Results
8781) Alone out here
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.
8783) Cranford
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Step into the charming world of "Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. This delightful novel invites you to a quaint English village, where the lives of its eccentric and endearing inhabitants are interwoven in a tapestry of humor, heartwarming moments, and social observations.
Set in the early 19th century, the narrative unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, an outsider welcomed into the close-knit community. As she navigates the idiosyncrasies...
8784) Girl, 11
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this debut thriller for fans of Riley Sager and Karin Slaughter, a social worker turned true crime podcaster investigates a decades-old serial killer cold case only to unwittingly create new victims"--
8785) Twelfth night
Author
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and father often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but unspoken. And on a cold night just before Christmas...
8787) Airplane Vs Volcano
Author
Language
English
Description
When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
Author
Language
English
Description
Shawn Stone is having a bad day. The funding for his film project is not there, his personal life is in shambles, he's out of time and money. He sees only one way to solve his problems - he must turn to the dark side. While he escaped his previous trip with his morality (and his life) intact, this time could be different. The further he goes, the more his eyes are opened to just what awaits him there. The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
8789) Dementia 13
Author
Language
English
Description
Written and directed by a 24-year-old Francis Ford Coppola, Dementia 13 centers on the dysfunctional Haloran family as they converge at Haloran Castle to enact a morbid ritual in remembrance of Kathleen (Barbara Dowling), the deceased daughter of Lady Haloran (Ethne Dunn). Secrets shroud Kathleen's demise, and soon there is a mysterious interloper prowling the grounds with a big axe to grind. Engaging with sharp cinematography, Dementia 13 is a bone-chilling...
8790) The Collector
Author
Language
English
Description
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
8791) Every Woman's Dream
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet Mitch Parker - he's smooth, suave and very shrewd, living two lives with two different wives. With a charming smile concealing a dangerous heart, he's a master of manipulation. But when he crosses the thin line between sanity and delusion, his mind games turn deadly. Based on New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's novel "Deadly Pretender" which is based on a true story.
8792) That Beautiful Somewhere
Author
Language
English
Description
With demons from his tour of duty in Bosnia haunting him, police detective Conk Adams (Roy Dupuis) is tasked with identifying a body found in a secluded northern bog. A young archaeologist from the city is called in to assist him. But Catherine Nyland (Jane McGregor) has a secret of her own: she requires physical healing just as much as Conk is in need of spiritual and emotional relief. An unlikely pair, their working relationship develops into a...
8793) 3 Days In Havana
Author
Language
English
Description
An insurance executive attending a convention in Cuba has his world turned upside down when he gets caught up in an assassination plot. Taking the advice of a mysterious woman, Jack Petty skips the conference and takes in the sights of Havana instead. Brushing off a fortune teller's warning of impending danger, he befriends Harry Smith, a fun loving travel writer with a taste for cigars, rum and trouble. Harry takes Jack under his wing and out for...
8794) Jug Face
Author
Language
English
Description
Jug Face tells the story of a pregnant teen trying to escape a backwoods community when she discovers that she may be sacrificed to a creature in a pit. The entity in the pit requires a sacrifice for keeping the community safe. The face of the person to be sacrificed is crafted onto a ceramic jug. When ignored, the entity unleashes an evil onto the community. Now no one is safe as tragedy befalls each member one by one and they soon realize that...
8795) The First
Author
Language
English
Description
Vancouver detective Sara Gonzales returns to her native island in Latin America to look for her missing sister. When people around her start to act strangely she doesn't know whom to believe anymore, and has to decide whether to save her family or stop a suspected alien invasion.
8796) Warped Influences
Author
Language
English
Description
Mitchi Conrad, a sixteen-year-old rising tennis star's world falls apart when she vanishes on her way home from a school dance. After eleven days, she is found with no memory of her missing time. Once home, she becomes plagued with eerie visions and mysterious blackouts. After a bizarre incident at school, her mother places her into a special program to help her cope with her trauma. Meanwhile, two more vanishings spark the interest of local celebrity...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
8798) Evil eye: a novel
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care of the house, and has dinner ready when her husband...
8799) The Black Cage
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Exposing the botched murder investigation of three young boys has left Milo Rigg's reputation and career as a crime-reporting journalist in tatters. But when the naked, frozen bodies of two young sisters, Priscilla and Beatrice Graves, are found down a ravine in Chicago months later, there are disturbing similarities. Are the two cases linked, and could this be Milo's chance to right the wrongs of the past? Restored to his former reporter role, Milo...
8800) La Fille du capitaine
Author
Language
Français
Description
À dix-sept ans, le jeune Pierre Grineff est envoyé par son père servir dans une forteresse aux confins de l'Oural. Il tombe amoureux de la belle Macha, la fille du capitaine de la garnison, mais à ce moment éclate l'insurrection de l'usurpateur Pougatcheff, qui soulève les paysans et les peuplades des environs contre l'autorité de Catherine II. Roman d'aventures, roman historique, la Fille du capitaine est le classique des classiques russes...
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).