Marisol Ramirez
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
An instant New York Times bestseller!
“This is an absolute, can’t-put-it-down thriller. . . . It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick January 2023)
Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden,...
“This is an absolute, can’t-put-it-down thriller. . . . It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick January 2023)
Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden,...
Author
Series
Lorien legacies volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
Author
Series
Lorien legacies volume 3
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
The third installment in the action-packed Lorien Legacies series that launched with "I Am Number Four" and "The Power of Six", finds the stakes higher than ever as John, Number Six, and Number Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.
Author
Series
Lorien legacies volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being annihilated, the Garde go into hiding. They must learn to master their Legacies and learn to work together as a team. When they receive a sign from Number Five -- a crop circle in the shape of a Loric symbol -- they know they are close to being reunited. But could it be a trap? Time is running out, and the only thing they know for certain is that they have to get to Five before it's too...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their abductions, captivity, and dramatic escape. Drawing on recollections and a diary kept by Amanda Berry, she and Gina DeJesus describe a decade of unimaginable torment. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan interweave their narrative with accounts of the efforts to find the missing girls. Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration--from Havana to New York's Copacabana and then Hollywood--becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film. Thirty years later, her young adult daughter,...
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission...
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
La Llorona is a specter from legend, wailing in the night for her lost children and desperate to claim living children to replace her own. In the 1970s, a social worker deals with a woman charged with child endangerment who is actually a victim of La Llorona, and gets caught up in the supernatural realm herself. Now the only hope for her own children may be a priest who lives on the fringes of where fear and faith collide.
9) Spellhacker
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The Disasters, this genre-bending YA fantasy heist story is perfect for fans of Marie Lu and Amie Kaufman.
In Kyrkarta, magic—known as maz—was once a freely available natural resource. Then an earthquake released a magical plague, killing thousands and opening the door for a greedy corporation to make maz a commodity that's tightly controlled—and, of course, outrageously expensive.
Which
...Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants"--
"At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. They're the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, and Nalah is their leader. She's getting weary of the violent throw downs and the boydega clubs; her dream is to...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tagus is a medical slave who wants be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man, and the two teenagers are in love with each other--but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353, 18 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Two young women two generations apart discover the joy and heartbreak of following their dreams. Aspiring Hollywood actress Violet makes a shocking choice in 1940, and seventy years later, Mari sets out to discover what happened on that long ago summer. Santa Cruz, Summer 1940: When auburn-haired Violet Harcourt is crowned Miss California on the boardwalk of her hometown, she knows she is one step closer to her cherished dream: a Hollywood screen...