Alyssa Bresnahan
81) The alpha enigma
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen. But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha herself. She speaks in a strange tongue, and doodles in bars, dots, and little pictures...
82) Implacable Alpha
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Called the 'Ennoia, ' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she's snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes?" -- Dust jacket.
83) Winter house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Berkley mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
It seems cut-and-dried at first: A burglar has been caught in the act and killed by a scissors-wielding homeowner. Except that the dead man was no burglar, but a hired killer. And he was stabbed not with a pair of scissors, but with an ice pick - and then with the scissors. And the homeowner is in fact the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty year, thought to have been kidnapped after the massacre of her family - five siblings,...
Author
Series
Vineyard novel volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
467 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Sutton is not only a bestselling mystery author, she's the proprietor of the newly opened Vineyard Inn. Recently engaged to local police sergeant John Lyons, instead of making wedding plans, Annie's fighting with him about his older daughter, a troubled teen who has moved home--bringing chaos in her wake. With Annie's beloved brother away on a troublesome journey of his own, Annie needs a friend. She begins to confide in one of the Inn's guests,...
85) Into the forest
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
At first, Into the Forest was a word-of-mouth favorite of booksellers. Soon, larger publishing houses were noticing Jean Hegland's debut novel and giving it rave reviews. Powerful and disturbing, Into the Forest offers images of an all-too-believable future. As America collapses in the chaos of war, pollution, and bankruptcy, two sisters pool their resources to survive alone in the hills above San Francisco. Although dwindling food and increasing...
86) Lyddie
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lyddie Worthen is only 13 when her family is split up and she is forced to hire herself out at Cutler's tavern. Far from home, she despairs of ever seeing her loved ones again. Desperate, Lyddie makes her way to Concord, Massachusetts where she becomes a factory girl, working as a weaver in a textile mill. Six days a week Lyddie struggles at the back-breaking looms. In spite of the deafening noise of the machines, the sweltering heat, and the choking...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pocket Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
89) Flip-flop girl
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
120 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Vinnie Matthews is a little girl with a big problem. She needs a lifesaver-not the candy kind, but a real one that will take her back to her home in Washington and make her daddy live again. Life without Daddy means moving to Grandma's rickety old house in Virginia and going to a new school where the other girls only make fun of Vinnie. Most of the time, Vinnie spends recess sitting alone on the school steps. But one day on the playground,...
90) Darkness peering
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Maine, a police chief commits suicide when circumstantial evidence points to his son's guilt in the murder of a retarded girl. Years later his daughter, a detective, reopens the case and finds even more damning evidence, but is her brother really guilty? A new murder will provide the answer.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
127 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Many years ago, Jenny's grandfather had been captain of the brig Amaryllis, sunk at sea during a terrible storm. Gram and Jenny's father had stood on a bluff overlooking the sea, and watched in silent horror as the handsome ship was swallowed by merciless, churning waters. After that, Jenny's father couldn't get away from the sea fast enough. But Gram had stayed behind. Every night since the storm-for 30 years-Gram has combed the beach for a sign...
92) The ten-year nap
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left prestigious jobs to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a decade. Now, at age forty, with the halcyon days of young motherhood behind them and without professions to define them, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen...
93) Adrift
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Maritime Unit had landed in paradise. After a terrifying ten-year transit from Solar System aboard the Ashanti, the small band of oceanographers and marine scientists were finally settled. Perched on a reef five hundred kilometers out from shore, they were about to embark on the first exploration of Donovan's seas. For the twenty-two adults and nine children, everything is new, exciting, and filled with wonder as they discover dazzling sea creatures,...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
108 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tish Bonner's high school English class has to keep a dumb journal for their teacher, Mrs. Dunphrey. Doesn't Mrs. Dunphrey know that kids are too busy coping with real life to be bothered with writing? But when 16-year-old Tish's life is turned upside down, her journal becomes her only confidante. Relying on her teacher's promise that she won't read any entry marked "don't read this," Tish writes about her loneliness and fear when her mother abandons...
95) Abandoned
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of the residents of the planet Donovan as survival becomes more of a struggle.
96) Unreconciled
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Where does one put a messianic cult of practicing cannibals? That becomes the question when Ashanti appears in Donovan's skies. She was designed for no more than four years in space. It's taken ten. The crew has sealed the transportees onto a single deck--and over the years, the few survivors down there have become monsters. Lead by the messiah, Batuhan, they call themselves the Unreconciled. Supervisor Kalico Aguila settles them at remote Tyson...
97) Bad dreams
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Maggie Travers used to sleep very well at night, until she slept in the old-fashioned canopy bed for the first time. At first, Maggie couldn't believe her luck. When the family moved out of the house, they left a beautiful old-fashioned canopy bed in the room that was now hers. But when Maggie goes to sleep underneath the pretty pink canopy, she has a bad dream-a nightmare that jars her awake with her own piercing scream. Every...
Author
Series
Real magic volume 2
Publisher
Semrland Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nora knows she needs to move on. And forget about magic. Shes back in graduate school, and her life is going surprisingly well. She doesn't need to think about other worlds, about enchantments and demons, or about magicians--even though she once aspired to become one herself. Most of all, she really should forget the magician Aruendiel, who shared the secrets of magic with her but fiercely guarded the deepest secrets of his heart. Then a chance encounter...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Laurie R. King has won both critical and popular acclaim for her mysteries featuring San Francisco detective Kate Martinelli. Looking forward to routine police work after her last terrifying case, Kate finds herself on the trail of vigilantes targeting abusive men in the San Francisco area. Kate has just returned to active duty after being injured on the job. Her girl-friend, Lee, has moved back into their home, and their relationship...
100) Outpost
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. But maybe it's worth the risk, for a brutal killer...