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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Desde que su novia lo dejó, Jayden ha estado evitando la escuela—y la vida en general. Cuando su excéntrico tío Mel le invita a ayudar con su investigación de biología en una universidad australiana, él se imagina que no tiene nada que perder. Una vez que él llega, descubre que Mel está obsesionado con la búsqueda de una nueva especie de lagarto y está decidido a ser el primero en descubrirlo. Desafortunadamente, esto significa una expedición...
2) Jacked
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As far as Zane knows, today is just another boring day at his lame gas-station job. Until he gets carjacked by a masked gunman. Zane has no idea where they’re going, or what will happen when they get there. All he knows is that the lunatic in the passenger seat has a gun aimed at him. Zane tries to reason with the guy, and when that fails, he tries a couple of daring stunts to get free, but they backfire. Zane starts to wonder who this guy is. And...
3) Masked
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Daniel enters a convenience store on a secret mission, he doesn't expect to run into anyone he knows. That would ruin everything. And when Rosie enters the same store to see what her father wants, she's hoping to make a quick getaway with her waiting boyfriend. All Daniel and Rosie want is to get in and out without any trouble. Neither expects what happens next. A masked man enters the store. "This is a stickup," he announces. He has a gun and...
Author
Series
Cassaforte chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
On his first sea voyage away from the magical city of Cassaforte, seventeen-year-old Nic Dattore awakens to find the vessel overrun by marauding pirates—and everyone else on board kidnapped or killed. After slaying the pirate who attacked him, Nic tosses a torch into a cache of gunpowder and blows up the ship. Washed up on a deserted island, Nic and a motley crew of castaways decide to commandeer the pirate ship to get home. They battle pirates,...
Author
Series
Rithmatist volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Frances trabaja el turno de noche en una tienda de conveniencia local, dividiendo su tiempo entre los estantes de reposición de existencias y trabajando en su arte. Su rutina se rompe una noche cuando Devin entra en la tienda. Alega que es el hijo de un famoso artista local y ofrece su asesoramiento sobre sus dibujos. Aunque él parece saber demasiado sobre ella, Frances decide, en contra del consejo de su novio, que es raro pero inofensivo. En el...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After his latest conviction for breaking and entering, Cameron is sent to an outdoor program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. There he meets Brianna, a girl who has been caught selling drugs at her school. They bond quickly, and she convinces Cameron to steal two sea kayaks and head off with her into the wilderness just as a hurricane is about to pound the coast.
8) Creed
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Dee, her boyfriend Luke and Luke’s brother Mike seek help in the nearby town of Purity Springs. But as they walk the vacant streets, the teens make some disturbing discoveries. The seemingly deserted homes each contain a sinister book with violent instructions on disciplining children. The graveyard is full of unmarked crosses. Worst of all, there’s no way to contact the outside world. When...
9) Outback
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school—and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback…with the increasingly paranoid Mel and an unfriendly biology student named Natalie. Then disaster strikes…and Jayden and Nat...
10) Death Wind
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Allie’s life has just taken a turn for the worse. Not only do her parents fight all the time, but now she thinks she might be pregnant. She hooks up with her old friend Razz, a professional skateboarder, and goes on the road. Razz is ranked number one, but his rivalry with Slammer is heating up, and Razz and Allie head for home—right into the path of a fierce tornado. To survive in the horror and destruction that follow the storm, Allie has to...
11) Taken
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Two girls have recently disappeared near the town where Stephanie lives. She is concerned but is sure that it could never happen to her. But then it does. Tied up and alone far from home, she manages to escape her captor and run for her life. But she is in the middle of nowhere, with no food, no shelter and no way home. And worst of all, she has run away before, so she is sure that the police will not take her disappearance seriously. She will need...
12) Knifepoint
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Jill took a job which sounded perfect for the summer, guiding tourists on trail rides in the beautiful mountains. She didn't realize that the money was terrible, the hours long and the coworkers insufferable. After a blow-up with her boss, she takes a single man into the mountains for a ride, only to finds that he is a dangerous killer. When Jill fights back and manages to escape, she is in a desperate race to survive and make it to safety.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Daniel X's hunt to eliminate each and every intergalactic criminal on Earth is always relentless, but this time, it's getting personal. Number Three on the List of Alien Outlaws takes the form of raging, soul-possessing fire. And fire transports Daniel back to the most traumatic event of his life-the death of his parents. In the face of his "kryptonite", Daniel struggles with his extraordinary powers like never before, and more than ever is at stake:...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
An ongoing, episodic “prose comic” from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon SquadGoon Squad, Volume 2: Without Sin is composed of “A Star in Strange Ways,” “Holy Fool,” “Dead Man Tells Tale,” “A Brief History of the Goon Squad,” “Tale of Terror,” and “Pomona Island,” as well as an introduction read by the author.
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
WHEN YOUNG TENAR is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together,...
Author
Series
Elixir chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Three lives saved by the Elixir; three lives bound by it.The Elixir entwines the lives of those it touches. Once upon a time, Kylene, Zelenka, and Devon tasted it and escaped death. None were left without scars. Now, a shocking message from the Ice Queen—one of Mother Nature’s higher beings—sends each survivor on a quest. Kylene travels to the frozen depths of Blanchardwood, Zelenka heads back to the wilds of Faway Forest, and Devon journeys...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Once upon Mystica, there were six wizards, three light and three dark. One day, one of the dark wizards said a spell to trap the fellow wizards. The spell went astray, and all of the wizards were trapped in stones. Now, one curious boy finds one of these stones and releases Midnight. Midnight is loose on Mystica! He gathers an army and prepares for war. Miranda is an average college girl, until she has dreams of Mystica. Her dreams lead her to travel...
18) Halfling
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old orphan Remmi Clearwater has a secret that could get her killed. For years, she has lived in the cavern lands of Penumbra, the dreariest land in a parallel world called Dreamearth, which people from Realearth visit while they sleep. All her life, she had successfully hidden her multiple magical abilities out of fear that someone would discover the truth about her. These amazing talents strongly hint that she’s a Halfling, the child...
19) Six of crows
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--
20) Hardwired
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Lucas tested positive for the warrior gene—a genetic abnormality believed to predispose humans to violence—he was shipped off to the Bake Shop, an impregnable government facility. There, he underwent a battery of psychological tests aimed at making him crack. Now, labeled safe to return to normal life, he’s ready to put the horrific experience behind him. Then the van transporting him home is forced off the road by a group of rebels who...
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