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61) The ragtime kid
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Running away from home to persuade legendary ragtime musician Scott Joplin to take him on as a pupil, teenager Brun Campbell stumbles upon the body of a murdered young woman, near which he discovers items belonging to Joplin.
62) Galveston
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roy is a heavy-drinking criminal enforcer and mob hit man whose boss set him up in a double-cross scheme. After killing his would-be assassins before they could kill him, Roy discovers Rocky, a young woman being held captive, and reluctantly takes her with him on his escape. Determined to find safety and sanctuary in Galveston, Roy must find a way to stop his boss from pursuing them while trying to out-run the demons from his and Rocky's pasts.
63) Punkzilla
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1200L
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
64) Out of reach
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
65) Whatever works
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to...
66) The way back
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by an incredible true story... begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs...
67) Forbidden Fruit
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly Delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is a summer festival. Corinna is a perfect size 20 with a genius for baking bread. And while dreaming of air-conditioned comfort, she finds herself dealing with a rose-addicted donkey named Serena, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant seeking the definitive glacé...
68) Bad scene
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When PI and ex-con Colleen Hayes learns that a local neo-Nazi group are talking about shooting the mayor, she thinks it's just another rumor--until her source, a humble street newspaper vendor, winds up in SF General, beaten to a pulp. To add to her grief, she discovers that her runaway daughter, Pamela, might have joined a shadowy religious group building a church in South America near a volcano that is about to erupt. Death is the path to perfection...
69) Smoke
Author
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
70) Life before
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
vii, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Xander hopes to get through what he hopes is a great summer, and then start college with a clean slate; however, his graduation day from high school brings terror, and he runs away.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Lexile measure
350L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey, a journey which takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is far greater than one. Bryan Talbot constructs a very special story in The Tale of One Bad Rat which immediately endears the reader. The...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Pearl runs away from her abusive father, she has nowhere to go--until she stumbles upon a disguise that gives her the key to a new identity. Reborn as a boy named Soupy, she hitches her star to Ramshackle, a hobo who takes her under his wing. Ramshackle's kindness and protection go a long way toward helping Soupy heal from her difficult past. But he has his own demons to wrestle with, and he'll need Soupy just as much as she needs him. Two misfits...
74) The enforcer
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miami's top mob enforcer Cuda sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organization he's spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss Estelle is putting a young runaway's life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption, both for himself and his family, before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The unflinching true account of a teenage girl's descent into society's underbelly -- and her mother's desperate and ultimately successful attempts to bring her back.
How does an honor student at one of Los Angeles's finest prep schools -- a bright, beautiful girl from a loving home -- trade school uniforms and afternoons at the beach for shooting up in the back of a van in rural Indiana? How does her devoted mother emerge from the shock of finding...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful and totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval. Dalila Sandoval shouldn't even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of one of the wealthiest lawyers in Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying and planning for her bright future. Ryan is only a...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rather than be placed in a special school for psychologically-challenged students, Dylan, six months from turning eighteen, sets out on the Appalachian Trail, where he makes surprising connections with other hikers.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and rehab, trying to make sense of the...
79) Dark places
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, rashly joins the Flower Children flocking to California--just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red River bottoms on the same night...
80) Winter and night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling late-night phone call from the NYPD, who is holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark, unfamiliar streets. Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, try to find the missing teen; their search takes them to a small town in New Jersey, where they discover that one...