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21) Whispers
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Whispers, her stunning new novel, Belva Plain shows she has no equal as a chronicler of twentieth-century American life. Here she creates one of the most realistic portraits of a marriage in recent fiction, a tale of the nineties told with shocking authenticity. In it we are privy to the secret life of one outwardly perfect family, we hear the whispers about what goes on behind their closed doors, and we experience the triumph that comes when one...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A jaw-dropping novel of psychological suspense that asks, If the love of your life disappeared without a trace, how far would you go to find out why? Hannah Monroe's boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every call she ever made to him, every text she ever sent, every photo of him and any sign of him on social media have vanished. It's as though their last four years together never happened. As Hannah struggles...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan investigates five cold case murders, she doesn't expect the investigation to become personal...
Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years despite the fact that the assignment originates from a troubling source: wealthy Baltimore benefactor Luisa O'Neal, who was both instrumental in launching Tess's present career and intimately...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialised in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation - to be careful of men, and desire - are not just Grace's to learn. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of...
25) Ice run
Author
Language
English
Description
Alex McKnight is in love with Ontario Provincial Police Officer Natalie Reynaud. They brave a violent snowstorm to spend the night together in a hotel in Sault Ste. Marie, where they meet a mysterious man who seems to know a great deal about Natalie's family. The next morning, he's found frozen in a snowbank. But this single incident reignites an old blood feud that goes back decades to an event buried in Natalie's family's past. She doesn't want...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Description
"The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and brush her teeth and do everything to keep the peace, but...
28) Ghost
Author
Series
Track volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team -- a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. Her father never made it out of the House of Horrors he created, and her mother spent the rest of her life behind bars. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she intends...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
As holiday celebrations take place in Santa Fe, Agent Paul Kagan is on the run with a baby the Russian mafia wants to destroy and turns to a mother and her young son for help during a violent night where they all must work together to keep the child safe from harm.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Marvin Johnson's twin brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by a police officer, Marvin must fight injustice to learn the true meaning of freedom"--
When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid. The next day Tyler is missing, and it's up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked...
32) Assassin's heart
Author
Series
Assassin's Heart volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Vias, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Her family name sullied by controversy,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace--smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses--adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the community is rocked. Meg had lived in terror of her abusive, unstable ex, convinced that he would return to try and kidnap Grace...as he had once before. Now...
35) Mary underwater
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Language
English
Description
Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles.
Author
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Sarah cant draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has 'done the art.' She thinks shes having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she wanders the urban ruins of Philadelphia. Or maybe shes finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country...
37) Count me in
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
Karina Chopra would have never imagined becoming friends with the boy next door--after all, they've avoided each other for years and she assumes Chris is just like the boys he hangs out with, who she labels a pack of hyenas. Then Karina's grandfather starts tutoring...
38) It takes one
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"They say there are no secrets in a small town... Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years. She'll have to face the whispers and the rumors that have haunted her family since she left. Because when Audrey was thirteen, she and her best friend Maggie killed Maggie's abusive father. Her first night back in town ends in a fight with a drunken Maggie, with her old crush Jake to witness it all. Audrey can't believe it can...
Author
Series
Monsters volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Clara is ready to fight back. Fight back against her abusive father, fight back against the only life shes ever known, and most of all, fight back against scrabs, the earth-dwelling monsters that are currently ravaging the world. So when an opportunity arises for Clara to join an international monster-fighting squad, she jumps at the chance. When Clara starts training with her teammates, however, she realizes what fighting monsters...