Richard Paul Evans
Author
Series
The broken road trilogy bk. 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Chicago celebrity Charles James can't shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted -- fame, fans, and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this...
2) The Traitor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In this electrifying ninth installment of the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Michael Vey series, the Electroclan must fight a former friend to save their captured ally!
With Tara still in the clutches of the Elite Elgen Guard Unit the Chasqui and their malevolent leader, the Sovereign Amash, Michael Vey and the Electroclan have no choice but to continue the fierce battle that has been waging since their arrival in Peru....
With Tara still in the clutches of the Elite Elgen Guard Unit the Chasqui and their malevolent leader, the Sovereign Amash, Michael Vey and the Electroclan have no choice but to continue the fierce battle that has been waging since their arrival in Peru....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother's abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain strong--but when he's run down by bullies at his new school,...
4) The parasite
Author
Series
Michael Vey bk. 8
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael and his friends learn that returning to a normal life is not only more difficult than they imagined, but that normal doesn't last. Like the mythical Hydra, cutting off the head of the global Elgen only created more enemies"--
Author
Series
Michael Vey bk. 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
An inspirational Christian tale on a dying woman who convinces a busy shopkeeper in Utah to devote more time to his family because their love is God's greatest gift. This is the hardcover edition of a paperback self-published last year.
7) The letter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A letter left on his daughter's grave sends a man searching for his mother who abandoned him in childhood. For David Parkins, it's a chance at happiness, his wife having just left him. A sentimental tale set in 1930s Salt Lake City.
Author
Series
Mistletoe collection bk. 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dear Universe, Is anyone out there? Thinking no one is reading, a blogger who calls herself LBH writes about her most personal feelings, especially her overwhelming loneliness. She goes from day to day showing a brave face to the world while inside she longs to know how it would feel if one person cared about her. Alex Bartlett cares. He's reading her posts in Daytona Beach, Florida. Nursing his own broken heart and trust issues, he finds himself...
Author
Series
Michael Vey bk. 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The final book in the Michael Vey series-- Michael is missing. The battle on the island of Hades ended with a devastating explosion that left the island a smoking ruin and much of Hatch's army dead. However, Hatch survived and while his plans have certainly suffered a setback, he's more determined than ever to bring the world's governments under his control. But first, he wants to wipe out the Resistance and capture the remaining members of the...
Author
Series
Mistletoe collection bk. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
At thirty-two Kimberly Rossetti, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. Dreading another holiday alone, she signs up for The Mistletoe Retreat, nine-day writing retreat in Savannah, Georgia. At one of her breakout sessions Kimberly meets another aspiring writer, and one of the few men at the conference, Zeke, an intelligent man with a wry wit who seems as interested in Kimberly...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The Locket marks the beginning of an entirely new series of audiobooks from Richard Paul Evans, the bestselling author of the Christmas Box collection. With this beautiful novel we learn that we are all given second chances, but that sometimes they are best given to someone else. My Dearest Michael, I would so rather say these things to your face, but, as we both know, life doesn't often take requests...first, I do not know yet the outcome of the...
12) The road home
Author
Series
Broken road trilogy bk. 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The "conclusion in the ... Broken Road trilogy, a ... redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walk and The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans has met hundreds of thousands of people and heard many of their stories in his travels over the past two decades. Most of the people he meets are hungry for inspiration; they love his novels because his characters are also searching for meaning and understanding.
The Four Doors is Evans's message to those who seek inspiration in their lives. It began as...
Author
Series
Michael Vey bk. 2
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other electric teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to restructure the world.
15) The walk
Author
Series
The walk bk. 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
From "The King of Christmas," Richard Paul Evans, comes the next exciting holiday novel perfect for "fans of Debbie Macomber" (Booklist) in his New York Times bestselling Noel Collection.
Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy, and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Maggie...
Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy, and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Maggie...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"No importa la razón, el hecho es que cada Navidad que pasa, descubro que la historia de la Caja de Navidad se cuenta cada vez menos y se necesita cada vez más. Por lo tanto la escribo ahora, para que las futures generaciones la tomen o la dejen según les plazca. Por lo que a mi respecta, creo en ella. Dispués de todo, se trata de mi propia historia." Así empieza El Regalo de Navidad, la tierna historia de una viuda, y la joven familia que se...
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Series
Language
English
Description
When I started to write The Looking Glass, I intended to create a story about the healing power of hope and love. But as this story developed, a message began to emerge that I had not foreseen, a message about the distorted mirror in which we view ourselves, binding ourselves with shackles of self-doubt and fear. The Looking Glass is aptly named, for it is about seeing the reality of ourselves: to see a true reflection of who we are. It is the story...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Hope is a rare gift that, if we are lucky, comes to us with the power to heal our lives. I've come to know that the deepest sense of hope often springs from the hardest lessons in life. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen -- perhaps it is divine irony that within the darkest moments we are capable of revealing the greatest light, demonstrating what is best with humanity. This is the story of Timepiece. In The Christmas Box, a loving...
20) The last promise
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Having followed her new husband to his native home in rustic Tuscany, Ellana distracts herself from her marital disappointments by caring for her asthmatic son, and reevaluates her life when she meets American art lover Ross Story.