Michael Crouch
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A painfully insecure artist falls in love with a charming, intellectual fellow university student in 1970s Pittsburgh before their relationship spirals into an all-consuming obsession that culminates in a shattering truth.
62) Kids of appetite
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teens Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco sit in separate police interrogation rooms telling about the misfits who brought them together and their journey sparked by a message in an urn.
63) Taos lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When an accident seriously injures his father, fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick saddles his half broke mustang stallion to take his father's place in a horse race from Texas to New England offering $3,000 to the winner. He will discover what America can offer, both good and bad"--
64) The illusion
Author
Series
Animorphs volume 33
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
460L
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is an Anti-morphing ray out there. It's purpose: to cause a person in morph to revert to his natural form. And the Yeerks have done a very good job in hiding it. Word from the Chee that the Yeerks are ready to test the weapon. Just one problem: They don't have a test subject. Yes, they could have Visser Three go into morph and them hit him with the ray. But Yeerk scientists say
there's a definite chance that the ray will prove fatal. The Visser...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni starts eighth grade determined to be master of his universe, but learns he cannot control everything on the soccer field, in his friendships, and especially in facing his father's incurable disease.
Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni is determined to channel his hero, soccer superstar Lionel Messi, and become captain of his soccer team and master of his eighth grade universe&especially since his home universe is spiraling...
66) Magonia
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Aza Ray Boyle's life has been defined by a unique lung disease and her evolving friendship with Jason, but just before her sixteenth birthday, she's swept up into the sky-bound world of Magonia and discovers her true identity.
67) The raven's tale
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster familythe wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all his plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty and entertaining 1980s noir.
Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. And Richard Cunningham? Well, Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday.
First, there's the meeting with his agent. A decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of Hollywood's hottest screenwriters. But now Tinseltown is no...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
426 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more honored than the falconers who call them to their fists. Brysen strives to be a great falconer--while his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts for the sport and wishes to be free of falconry. She's nearly made it out, too, but a war is rolling toward their home in the Six Villages, and no bird...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal. It doesn't help that this will be the first vacation they're taking since Mom passed away. Once there, the family contends with 110 degree days, wild bears, and an annoying amateur ornithologist...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a misleading photo of them goes viral, political consultant Thom Morgan and data analyst Clay Parker--sworn enemies working with a presidential candidate--are forced to fake a relationship to save the campaign, and soon the political turns personal.
72) After Francesco
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, [an imprint of] Kensignton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Doyle, a gay man who lost his partner, Francesco, to AIDS in mid-1980s New York wallows in his loss and at a mind-numbing job before hitting rock bottom and realizing it is time to return home to Minnesota to start over"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After high school graduation, Mac focuses on finding the serial killer who murdered his best friend the previous summer, while working through his own feelings for the deceased.
Last summer the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him--easier said than done since Mac's best friend Connor was the murderer's final...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1904 and the partially deaf Asta Hedstrom is engaged to Nils, but she does not want to marry him: she would rather spend her time with her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, Erlend, who belongs to the wealthiest family on their Norwegian island; so when Nils gravely injures Gunnar, she shuns her marriage and moves in with Gunnar and Erlend in a secluded cabin above town--and the three misfits set out to win the annual Christmas...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age story set during the rising tide of World War II, How to Find Your Way in the Dark follows Sheldon Horowitz from his humble start in a cabin in rural Massachusetts, through the trauma of his father's murder and the murky experience of assimilation in Hartford, Connecticut, to the birth of stand-up comedy in the Catskills--all while he and his friends are beset by anti-Semitic neighbors, employers, and criminals"--
1938. Twelve-year...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Five teens who were partly responsible for a death a year earlier are lured by the promise of a $50,000 prize to an isolated mansion by someone bent on revenge.
One year ago, there was a party. At the party, someone died. Five teens each played a part and up until now, no one has told the truth. But tonight, the five survivors arrive at an isolated mansion in the hills, expecting to compete in a contest with a $50,000 grand prize. Of course&some...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer Bray/Harperteen
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
111, 4 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are in their first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began--on email.
78) Man of the year
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offering shelter for the summer to his son's troubled college roommate, Dr. Robert Hart, who has just been named Sag Harbor's Man of the Year, reveals a dark inner nature when he develops paranoid suspicions about his wife's fidelity.
79) The pretender
Author
Series
Animorphs volume 23
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Someone's looking for Tobias. Someone who says she's his long-lost cousin. Tobias isn't sure the person is telling the truth, but she's really nice, and knows a lot about him. And what she tells Tobias definitely gets his attention.
It seems a lawyer has discovered Tobias's father's last will and testament. So, Tobias needs to attend the reading. His cousin even offers to go along. But something just doesn't feel quite right. That's when Tobias and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.