Michael F Smith
1) Nick
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby’s periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed firsthand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental redemptive journey that takes him from a...
2) Rivers
Author
Formats
Description
Following years of catastrophic hurricanes, the Gulf Coast--stretching from the Florida panhandle to the western Louisiana border--has been brought to its knees. The region is so punished and depleted that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules. Cohen is one who stayed.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
His mind failing from the effects of decades of bare-knuckle fighting, his foster mother's family legacy in the hands of strangers, and overwhelmed with gambling debts, Jack's only chance at redemption is to step into the fighting pit one last time.
5) Blackwood
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself -- when confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good. The opposite is true: this is a landscape of fear and ghosts -- of regret and violence -- transformed by the kudzu...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Aaron Eckhart stars as a desperate, bare-knuckle cage fighter battling for the only thing he has left in an action-thriller based on Michael Farris Smith's celebrated novel THE FIGHTER. Bella Thorne shines alongside Eckhart in this gripping film about one man's last-ditch effort to save his family home against the strongest of foes and the longest of odds.