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81) Reign of shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok's lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna's survival depends on the world believing she is dead. But that doesn't stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Valor is arrested, she could not be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor's sister Sasha is already serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape...from the inside" --
83) Naondel
Author
Series
Red Abbey chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
375 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating points of view, Kabira, Garai, and the other First Sisters share a history of years of sexual violence, oppression, and exploitation at the hands of the vizier Iskan, whose dark powers originate from his control of the sacred spring at his palace at Ohaddin, before the women are able to escape and establish the female haven of Red Abbey on the island of Menos.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by war, Corporal Chris Merriman is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her Taliban defiance escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merriman and his team will need all they can muster to fight their way across the...
85) The gathering
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kansas 1868. Matt Talbot is one of a trio of scouts who are meeting with a Cheyenne chief, Bull Bear. After the meeting, some renegade Cheyennes attack the scouts, killing one and leaving another for dead. Talbot manages to escape in one piece, but he soon learns that making his way out of this now-hostile territory unscathed is only the beginning. Surviving the attack will require more than being physically unharmed, as putting his near-death experience...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Broken free from a nightmarish distant-future prison by a mysterious woman who offers him his life back if he will complete the ultimate heist he left unfinished, con man Jean le Flambeur is pursued in worlds where people communicate through shared memories.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
342, 364 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Traitor's kiss: When an enigmatic beauty rescues accused traitor Lord Gabriel Pennistan from a French prison cell, it's just the beginning of an adventure in mystery and seduction. For Gabriel has no idea who Charlotte Parnell is, or why she has saved him, and Charlotte has underestimated her attraction for the sensual stranger. But when she abruptly vanishes, Gabriel will not rest until he finds her--P. [4] of cover.
Lover's kiss: Lady Olivia Pennistan...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Jolene Gerard is running out of time-each moment she remains within the walls of Drumwich Castle, she is in jeopardy. Her only chance lays with a prisoner chained to the dungeon walls, a Scotsman who, in return for freedom, helps Jolene and her young nephew escape her cousin's deadly snare. Pursued by murderous villains, Jolene is prepared to fight for her life. But in the arms of rugged Sigimor Cameron, she soon surrenders her heart . . . He...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story of a spectacularly charismatic con man's journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam, all in the name of love.
92) No way out
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four of the orphans who were lured to Larkspur House have made it out of the shadow house alive, but Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Dylan are still on the grounds of the estate and far from safety--and unless they solve the mystery of what it is that the house wants from them, they may never escape.
93) Shadow grave
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Arlo is afraid of fire, creepy TV shows, and even his own shadow ... During a Thanksgiving road trip, a sudden collision with a strange beast in the middle of the road totals the family's car, and Arlo, his mom, and his sister end up stranded in a small town. There's something off about Livermore ... When he stumbles upon a dark secret that the town's inhabitants will kill to keep, getting out of Livermore becomes a matter of life or death"--
Twelve-year-old...
94) The arc
Author
Series
Loop trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the final installment of ... [the] Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet ... [The] escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw[s] nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy's final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is destroyed"--Amazon.
All hope has seemingly been executed....
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zak Nine, his alien friend Erro, and another prisoner have found a small spacecraft and if they can dodge the missiles that the guards are firing after them perhaps they can finally escape from planet Alcatraz; but there is something wrong with the stars in front of them--they are not really stars at all, and now they find themselves confronted by Alcatraz's biggest secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zak has been captured and sent to Planet Alcatraz's "Monster Zoo" where the inmates are forced to fight for the entertainment of the Overseers--but Erro is still free and he is determined to use all his Quom survival skills to rescue is human friend.
97) Sugar street
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions....
98) The howling
Author
Series
Vampire wars volume 4
Publisher
Epic Press, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2019].
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Delilah comes face-to-face with the past as Victor delivers her from a gruesome fate at Project Harvest: the Howling, a three-day hunt celebrated at the full moon. It's not Delilah's first Howling, though, and she knows just what a prize a Keeper would be. So why this random act of compassion from the enemy? The captives use this distraction to stage an escape--with disastrous results. Who is Delilah, really? And what side is she really on . . ....
Author
Series
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Starbreakers were heroes, until a tragedy broke them apart. Only now, years later, have they begun to make peace with each other. The rest of the world is a different story. There has been a breakout in the prison known as Oblivion, and now the worst of the worst have been turned loose on an unsuspecting world. Desperate to contain the crisis, the right hand of the king has called the disgraced Starbreakers back into service. After all, they were...
100) Diamonds of doom
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling at night, Zak and Erro follow a figure into a cave and discover a number of other escapees are hiding in an abandoned diamond mine--but one of their fellows is actually a traitor who has betrayed the hiding place to the guards, and in the darkness only Erro's superior nose can help the boys find their way out of this trap.