Michelle Wan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. After that, she's hoping to take her mud-wrestling skills out of small-town-Ontario bars and down to the more lucrative US circuit.
And then Marcia Beekland enters...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Mara Dunn travels to Dordogne in southwestern France to investigate the disappearance twenty years earlier of her sister Bedie, and enlists the help of Julian Wood, an English expert on orchids, to help her after Bedie's camera with photographs of a rare orchid turns up in a junk shop.
3) I.O.U. Dead
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who's tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they're sent to shake rent out of.
One night Keno and Jaco finally catch up to one of their targets. But she'll...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who's tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they're sent to shake rent out of.
One night Keno and Jaco finally catch up to one of their targets. But she'll...