James Anderson
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without an accident. But then he finds a mute Hispanic child who has been abandoned at a seedy truck stop along his route, far from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Material
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
Be astounded with some of these amazing apparitions, ethereal suspensions, daring physical feats, intriguing illusions, legendary levitations, and other ways magicians use science and technology to fool our senses. The Science of Magic e-Book takes a look at the famous illusionists throughout history who have amazed us with their magic tricks. This nonfiction reader engages middle school students with purposefully leveled content to increase comprehension...
Author
Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
What should be the role of the criminal law in controlling corporate behavior, and how can the execution of that role be improved? On the one hand, corporations have enormous power, and, when a corporation causes harm, there is a natural instinct to apply criminal sanctions, society's most serious expression of moral disapproval. In the wake of a harm in which a corporation had a prominent role, there are often calls for an increased use of the criminal...
Author
Series
Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 170 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
No-fault automobile-insurance regimes were the culmination of decades of dissatisfaction with the use of the traditional tort system for compensating victims of automobile accidents. They promised quicker, fairer, less-contentious, and, it was hoped, less-expensive resolution of automobile-accident injuries. This monograph considers how these plans have fared. After reviewing the intellectual and political history of no-fault auto insurance, the monograph...
Author
Series
Research report volume RR-443-1-RC
Publisher
Rand Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (unpaged) : color illustration, color graphs
Language
English
Description
"The automotive industry appears close to substantial change engendered by 'self-driving' technologies. This technology offers the possibility of significant benefits to social welfare: saving lives; reducing crashes, congestion, fuel consumption, and pollution; increasing mobility for the disabled; and ultimately improving land use. This report is intended as a guide for state and federal policymakers on the many issues that this technology raises"--Provided...
16) Eva's eye
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The debut mystery novel in the Inspector Sejer Series from Norway's award-winning author of Hell Fire and The Whisperer.
Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when they make a grisly discovery: a man's body floating on the water's surface. Eva goes to call the police, but when she reaches the phone, she dials another number altogether for her own reasons. But when the police find the body anyway, Inspector Sejer and his team quickly...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
8 books (295 pages ; 25 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
Ben Jones is an honorable but down-on-his luck truck driver on a lonely Utah highway. When he stumbles across a beautiful woman named Claire playing a cello in an abandoned housing development, he can tell that she's fleeing something in her past, but despite his better judgment he is inexorably drawn to her. Dangerous men come looking for her, and as they turn Route 117 upside down in their search, the long-buried secrets of those who've laid claim...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Available for the first time in English, the seventh entry in the beloved Inspector Sejer series from Norway's Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum. On a wet, gray night in early November, Charlo Torp, a former gambler who's only recently kicked the habit, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in hand. Certain that paying off his debt is the only path to starting a new life and winning his daughter's forgiveness, Charlo plans...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, music ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Ruffen, a monster unable to swim in the waters of his invisible world, learns how to swim after saving the life of an octopus named Fourteen Ninety-Two but must use his new skill when a natural disaster strikes near their home.
20) Hometown legend
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Athens is a small town on its last legs. The town's high school is about to be closed down and their once mighty football team hasn't had a winning season in twelve years. All of those years ago, tragedy struck and the coach retired. But when that same coach returns for one final season, he brings a glimmer of hope. Now, the town will get one last chance at redemption.