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Series
Language
English
Description
"But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Physical Desc
443 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Still suffering from the murder of his family, Charlie "Bird" Parker returns to the Maine of his childhood and uncovers a legacy of evil that has haunted Maine citizens for decades. This masterful and menacing second novel is the sequel to Every Dead Thing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Parker gets a call from Elliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective with the NYPD. Now practicing law in Charleston, South Carolina, Elliot is defending a young black man accused of raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of a powerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees to help Elliot and by doing so ventures into a living nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by the specter of a hooded woman and...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie has promised his friend, Marv, that he will be there for the big soccer game, but Lola has a cold and Charlie meets her every demand, with decreasing patience, until it looks as if Lola will never let him leave.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A girl tells what it is like living with her twin brother who has autism and sometimes finds it hard to communicate with words, but who, in most ways, is just like any other boy. Includes authors' note about autism.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town... But the death...
Author
Series
Charlie and Mouse volume 1
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie and Mouse, two young brothers, enjoy a day out together, attending an imaginary party and collecting rocks.
Author
Series
Charlie and Mouse volume 2
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brothers Charlie and Mouse enjoy a special visit from Grumpy.
11) Fox hunter
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ex-special-forces soldier finds herself on a mission to the Iraqi countryside to track down a missing comrade-in-arms.
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind…
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville's notorious defense attorney — devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.
Twenty-eight...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second book in the acclaimed Viv and Charlie mystery series, Homicide for the Holidays is a riveting holiday mystery set amidst the glitz of Chicago's radio drama scene and the grime of its taverns and speakeasies. A hidden key that opens a drawer locked for the past eight years, a mysterious envelope filled with cash, and a threatening note... none of this is what rising radio star Vivian Witchell expects to find in her late father's office....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After a mysterious fatal car accident kills his predecessor, Congressman Charlie Marder struggles to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, D.C., where he finds an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
481 Pages ; 23.5 cm
Language
English
Description
""From internationally bestselling author and ""creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre"" (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring Private Investigator Charlie Parker. When the body of a woman--who apparently died in childbirth--is discovered, Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child. In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators...
17) A book of bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
674 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
He is our best hope.
He is our last hope.
On a lonely moor in northern England, the body of a young woman is discovered. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull.
Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call.
Charlie Parker has also heard it and from the forests of Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border, from the canals of Amsterdam to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It is Mom's birthday, and Charlie and Mouse and their Dad want everything to be perfect--so when the cake gets burnt the boys have to come up with a new plan, pronto.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Language
English
Description
The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.--
Author
Series
Charlie and Mouse volume 4
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie and Mouse and their parents are going on a camping trip, and there will be hiking, storytelling, marshmallows, and campfires, and the joy that comes from sharing it all.
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