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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Not your everyday coming-of-age novel. This story was supposed to be about Evie—how she hasn't made a friend in years, how she tends to stretch the truth (especially about her so-called relationship with college drop-out Jonah Luks), and how she finally comes into her own once she learns to just be herself—but it isn't. Because when her classmate Elizabeth "Zabet" McCabe's murdered body is found in the woods, everything changes—and Evie's life...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
It's the era of peace and love in the 1960s, but nothing is peaceful in Caroline's life. Since her beautiful older sister disappeared, fifteen-year-old Caroline might as well have disappeared too. She's invisible to her parents, who can't stop blaming each other. The police keep following up on leads even Caroline knows are foolish. The only one who seems to care about her is Tony, her sister's older boyfriend, who soothes Caroline's desperate heart...
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Series
Winner's trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria's crown prince is the event of a lifetime, but to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making, so as she aches to tell the truth about her engagement, she becomes a skilled practitioner of deceit and as a spy passes information and gets close to uncovering a shocking secret.
6) Liv, Forever
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
-- When Liv Bloom lands an art scholarship at Wickham Hall, she’s thrilled. The school’s traditions and rituals may be a little strange, but for the first time ever she has her own studio, supplies—everything she could want. Including Malcolm Astor, a legacy student with his own art obsession. Liv’s defenses melt, despite warnings from fellow scholarship kid Gabe Nichols not to get involved with Malcom. But her bliss is doomed; weeks...
7) Who Done It?
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- Can you imagine the most cantankerous book editor alive? Part Voldemort, part Cruella de Vil (if she were a dude), and worse in appearance and odor than a gluttonous farm pig? A man who makes no secret of his love of cheese or his disdain of unworthy authors? That man is Herman Mildew. The anthology opens with an invitation to a party, care of this insufferable monster, where more than 80 of the most talented, bestselling and recognizable...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Fans of true-crime murder mysteries won't want to miss this one."—BooklistGianna is the average seventeen-year-old girl living in 1918 New Orleans. She worries about her family's store, the great war, and a mysterious illness that's about to take hold of the city she loves.It doesn't help that there also appears to be a mad man on the loose in her neighborhood. The attacks started as burglaries but soon escalate to cold blooded murder. There's...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the sophisticated world beyond her dad's brokeback farm. But all her plans fall to pieces when a young woman turns up drowned in the lake. Only Mattie knows that her death is a murder.An astonishing and heartbreaking story...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
-- Would you ever cut corners to get what you want? . . . Outsourcing their storytelling to artificial intelligence comes with unintended results for the executives of the Fazbear Entertainment board of directors. . . Tony’s search for the player behind the impossibly high scores at the Pizzaplex Fazcade leads him down a rabbit hole with no way out. . . And Abe’s journey to find the first generation animatronics causing problem for his Bobbiedot...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- What are you running from? . . . Sam is afraid of just about anything and everything that’s unhealthy ever since his father died . . . Something about the Springtrap costume in the roleplaying area of Freddy Fazbears Mega Pizzaplex chills Luca to the core . . . And Grady’s fear of being trapped in small spaces makes working as a Pizzaplex technician extremely challenging. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, our deepest fears have a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Maggie Quinn, girl reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out of Avalon High in one piece. A sensible nerd would have kept her head down, done her drive-by photo shoot of the prom, and continued the countdown to Deploma Day. But fate seems to have different plans for Maggie. High school may be a natural breeding ground for evil, but the scent of fire and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- Have you ever experienced a gut feeling that told you something was wrong? . . . Caden senses the underwater animatronics in Freddy’s Fantasy Water Park have a mind of their own. Robbie knows deep down that the minds of the members of the Fazbear Fan Club have been taken over by something. And Abe can’t shake the feeling that the animatronic assistants in his Fazplex Tower apartment are hiding things from him. But in the world of Five Nights...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore...
15) Pearl Thief, The
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital....
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Language
English
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For more than twenty years, Lemony Snicket has led millions of young readers through a mysterious world of bewildering questions and unfortunate events. With this latest book-a love letter to readers young and old about the vagaries of real life-longtime fans and new readers alike will experience Snicket's distinctive voice in a new way. This true story-as true as Lemony Snicket himself-begins with a puzzling note under his door: You had poison for...
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume Prequel
Language
English
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Description
When Rick is sent to Brookline asylum against his will, he soon finds out that life there is nearly inhumane. He seeks the help of a sympathetic nurse and plans his escape before it's too late.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- Have you ever wanted something badly, even though you shouldn’t? . . . Steve’s dreams of a video game programming career and starting a family lead him to take a job that seems too good to be true. Aiden and Jace can’t resist scaring some young kids in the tube maze of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. And all Billy wants is to become the perfect ideal of what he knows he really is—an animatronic. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's,...
19) Bonechiller
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
WELCOME TO NOWHERE. Danny’s dad takes a job as caretaker at a marina on the shore of a vast, frozen lake in Harvest Cove, a tiny town tucked away in Canada’s Big Empty. If you’re looking for somewhere to hide, this is it. It’s the worst winter in years. One night, running in the dark, Danny is attacked by a creature so strange and terrifying he tries to convince himself he was hallucinating. Then he learns about Native American legends of...
20) The Glass Casket
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Death hasn't visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and their riders thunder into her village and through the forest, disappearing into the hills. Days later, the riders' bodies are found, and though no one can say for certain what happened in their final hours, their remains prove that whatever it was must have been brutal. Rowan's village was once a...
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