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1) Tell
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When his stepfather, Phil, is shot dead in an apparent robbery, David becomes the prime suspect. Where was David that night, and what does he know about Phil? David has figured out the truth about his stepfather, and the day his kid brother died. What will it take for him to tell? And how did he know?
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando un vecino adulto es brutalmente asesinado durante una fiesta en la escuela secundaria, todo el mundo en la escuela parece tener una idea de quién lo hizo, pero nadie va a ir a la policía. Jen estaba allí y vio el cuerpo y ella tiene sus propias ideas acerca de quién es el responsable. Como reportera del show de televisión de la escuela, decide tratar de descubrir la verdad y descubrir si el comportamiento cada vez más violento de un compañero...
3) Res Judicata
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
MacIntyre, son of firebrand lawyer Andy MacIntyre, smells something fishy about one of his mother's cases. And it's not just that there are sea lice in the coffee. When Cyril starts investigating the death of a millionaire inventor, he gives a whole new meaning to the term "legal aid." Long on smarts and short on, well, just plain short, Cyril tangles with deranged criminals, indulges in a little bit of B & E and confronts the scariest person in the...
4) Deadly
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Amy and Eric are the perfect couple. Popular, good-looking, happy. But after they are seen quarreling at a party, Amy disappears and Eric is the number-one suspect. Amy wakes up alone in a windowless, all-white room. She has no idea how she got there, or who put her there. All she knows is that she has to get out. Eric wakes up to news of Amy's disappearance—and a visit from the police. All he knows is that he didn't do it, and that he has to find...
Author
Series
Blue is for nightmares volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
I'll make you pay... School is over, and now Stacey, her boyfriend Jacob, and their friends have rented a beach cottage for the summer. No more stress, secrets, or stalkers. But then Stacey's nightmares return—predicting the cruel death of Clara, a mysterious girl with a secret. And now Jacob, the only one who understands Stacey's magic, is keeping secrets, too. Is he betraying Stacey's trust or protecting her from revenge and tragedy? Don't miss...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Richard Harrison was the last person to see his friend Melanie alive. She vanished when they were six, and while the police never found her, a part of her remained—a living shadow that became Richard’s closest friend. For 10 years, Richard has never questioned the shadow that keeps him company... until a new girl moves to town, claiming to be Melanie. All Those Broken Angels is a story of buried bones and shadowy secrets and the freedom that can...
8) Tragedy Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Of course Anne would be drawn to Blake. He's good looking, he's friendly, and they both bring sob stories to the table: her parents died in a car wreck, his girlfriend, Cara, drowned. Of course Blake would understand what she's gone through. And of course they can help each other work through the pain. It's like it was meant to be. But just as Anne starts to feel she's finally found something good in all the tragedy, she can't ignore signs that something's...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Surrender Your Sons is an LGBTQ+ YA mystery / thriller that expertly blends together humor, horror, and heart, in a wholly unique read like no other. A blend of Lost and Lord of the Flies … just with gay teenagers taking the horrors of the world head on.
A 2020 Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth selection
A 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books selection
A 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Bronze Winner, Young Adult Fiction
Connor...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
It's the era of peace and love in the 1960s, but nothing is peaceful in Caroline's life. Since her beautiful older sister disappeared, fifteen-year-old Caroline might as well have disappeared too. She's invisible to her parents, who can't stop blaming each other. The police keep following up on leads even Caroline knows are foolish. The only one who seems to care about her is Tony, her sister's older boyfriend, who soothes Caroline's desperate heart...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At the Saint Clemens boarding school, nobody knows—not even his two best friends—that Andrew Day has inherited one of the most magnificent houses in the world. But as he ventures through forgotten passages and unmapped doors, he begins to wonder: who is hiding inside the walls? The sequel to the award-winning mystery "The Secret Billionaire."
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A teen musician who’s lost everything. A ruthless billionaire who blackmails politicians. A showdown aimed at the Oval Office. Sixteen-year-old Moe lives for jazz. A talented musician, gifted mathematician, and crack coder, Moe divides his spare time between his jazz band, his cyber friends, and tinkering with his homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) application that he’s trained to compose its own music. When tragedy abroad strikes his family,...
15) The Lost Prophet
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
PACIFIC BOOK AWARD WINNER After one of the Holy Land's most sacred monuments is destroyed, the Ministry has to turn to their most prolific investigator to solve the case— Vince Ramsey. He soon discovers that they are facing a graver threat than any of them could've imagined. It seems the enemy's primary objective is to abolish the remains of biblical prophets— and wipe out their very existence from history. With all-out war on the brink in the...
16) Liv, Forever
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
-- When Liv Bloom lands an art scholarship at Wickham Hall, she’s thrilled. The school’s traditions and rituals may be a little strange, but for the first time ever she has her own studio, supplies—everything she could want. Including Malcolm Astor, a legacy student with his own art obsession. Liv’s defenses melt, despite warnings from fellow scholarship kid Gabe Nichols not to get involved with Malcom. But her bliss is doomed; weeks...
17) Who Done It?
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- Can you imagine the most cantankerous book editor alive? Part Voldemort, part Cruella de Vil (if she were a dude), and worse in appearance and odor than a gluttonous farm pig? A man who makes no secret of his love of cheese or his disdain of unworthy authors? That man is Herman Mildew. The anthology opens with an invitation to a party, care of this insufferable monster, where more than 80 of the most talented, bestselling and recognizable...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Fans of true-crime murder mysteries won't want to miss this one."—BooklistGianna is the average seventeen-year-old girl living in 1918 New Orleans. She worries about her family's store, the great war, and a mysterious illness that's about to take hold of the city she loves.It doesn't help that there also appears to be a mad man on the loose in her neighborhood. The attacks started as burglaries but soon escalate to cold blooded murder. There's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Maggie Quinn, girl reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out of Avalon High in one piece. A sensible nerd would have kept her head down, done her drive-by photo shoot of the prom, and continued the countdown to Deploma Day. But fate seems to have different plans for Maggie. High school may be a natural breeding ground for evil, but the scent of fire and...
20) Pearl Thief, The
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital....
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