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1041) Be not far from me
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.
1042) Returner's wealth
Author
Series
Wyrmeweald volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Young pioneer, Micah, enters Wrymeweald full of hope to return home having made his fortune. But this is a land where wyrmes, fabulous dragon-like beasts, roam wild and reign supreme. After a near-brush with death on the edge of a canyon, Micah soon finds a chance to prove his worth when he meets with Eli, a veteran tracker of Wrymeweald.
1043) The box in the woods
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she's back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer. But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls-the site of the notorious unsolved case, the Box in the Woods Murders. Back in 1978, four camp counselors were killed in the woods outside of the town of Barlow Corners, their bodies...
1044) My sister Rosa
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
1045) What's broken between us
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl must heal and learn to love again when her brother returns from jail after causing a drunk driving accident that changed their lives forever"--Provided by publisher.
1046) Crown of oblivion
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Astrid, indentured to the royal class and long-time surrogate for Princess Renya's punishments, impetuously decides to risk her life and compete in a cutthroat race in order to win her family's freedom.
1047) Bridge of clay
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
1048) Clap when you land
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
1049) As you walk on by
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After a disastrous promposal at a party, seventeen-year-old Theo has an existential crisis in an empty bedroom, but as the night progresses, various classmates also seek refuge from the party, and Theo finds he is not as alone as he thinks he is.
1050) Generation one
Author
Series
Lorien legacies reborn volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted in Pittacus Lore's United as One. But in order to win, our alien allies known as the Garde unleashed their Loric energy that spread throughout the globe. Now human teenagers have begun to develop incredible powers of their own, known as Legacies.
To help these incredible and potentially dangerous individuals-and put the world at ease-the Garde have created an academy where they can...
1051) The reader
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin's been taken, or if she's even alive. The only clue to both her aunt's disappearance and her father's murder is the odd rectangular object her father left behind,...
1052) Kissing lessons
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hayden Vargas is a girl with a bad reputation who really just wants to finish high school and get away from her alcoholic mother and the whole boring high school dating scene, so when Emmaline Martin offers to pay her for lessons in attracting and managing boys it seems like a way to pick up some easy money for her post-high school life--but she did not count on the attraction she feels for her client's brother, Nolan, who is not only gorgeous, but...
1054) The hand on the wall
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After another death, Stevie must navigate mysterious riddles and track down a missing David at the same time a massive storm forces her to confront a killer.
1055) Cruel crown
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume Related title
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In two revealing prequels to Red Queen, Queen Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life. Meanwhile, Captain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance--and stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to an attack on the Nortan capital: Mare Barrow.
1057) Pretty rude for a girl
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Big, bold, and funnier than a cat in a onesie playing bagpipes, Haylah Swinton's been busy proving she's an all-star comedian through her new YouTube channel. Yet life online is its own can of trolls. And proving she's funny is tougher than she thought it'd be! Plus, her new boyfriend Dylan hasn't even tried kissing her yet, and when her deadbeat dad decides to turn up, life as she's known it is tossed into one big, colossal...
1058) The white rose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude"--
1059) The thousand steps
Author
Series
Fiery spiral volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On the brink of execution, 16 year old Ebba den Eeden is unexpectedly elevated from the bunker deep in South Africa's Table Mountain where she has lived all her life, believing--as do all the other teenagers who toil daily to make their food and power the bunker--that the world "Above" is uninhabitable due to a nuclear holocaust. Instead, she is heiress to a massive fortune-one that everyone wants to control. While dealing with the machinations of...
1060) The Grimrose girls
Author
Series
Grimrose girls volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming them to gruesome deaths unless they can forge their own paths.
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