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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
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...
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...
4) 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?
5) 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...
6) 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...
7) 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
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria's crown prince is the event of a lifetime, but to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making, so as she aches to tell the truth about her engagement, she becomes a skilled practitioner of deceit and as a spy passes information and gets close to uncovering a shocking secret.
13) 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...
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,...
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
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In a small town deep in the bayou, seventeen-year-old Grey searches for answers about the disappearance of her best friend, uncovering long-held secrets that threaten everything she believed about herself, her family, her friends, and her home.
17) Renegade
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
“She hungered again as she had not in twenty years. For blood.’’ The Conclave—a secret group with twisted ideals and freakish practices—has been wiped out, thanks to Arabella Sharp. But Abbie has no time to rest. Terrifying visions of a sea beast plague her, and strange encounters lurk around every turn. She only knows one thing for certain: there’s a new malevolence afoot. Meanwhile, fishermen are being killed, their partially devoured...
18) Ripper
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
“I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me...” It’s 1888, and after her mother’s sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there. But within days, patients begin turning up murdered at the hands of Jack the Ripper. As more women are murdered,...
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Rick is sent to Brookline asylum against his will, he soon finds out that life there is nearly inhumane. He seeks the help of a sympathetic nurse and plans his escape before it's too late.
20) Bloodmarked
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers"--
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