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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by...
3) Find me
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Find Me is the story of a young woman reckoning with the ghosts of her past in a post-epidemic America. --Provided by publisher.
4) Jane Steele
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suffering at the hands of cruel family members and brutal school administrators, sensitive orphan Jane Steele murderously retaliates against her abusers and takes a job as a governess working with mysterious servants while falling in love with her employer, in a serial-killer reimagining of "Jane Eyre."
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After falling in love with a mobster's daughter he met on a commuter train, law abiding Phil Vail becomes a crime boss in her family, but has to reconsider his position when an old friend, an ex-CEO, decides to run for president.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last ditch effort to connect with something (actually, someone, the girl he's had a crush on for years) in his sleepy Florida town before he leaves for good. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick without interruption from her vapid almost-friends ... And in...
10) Mister Monkey
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Francine Prose weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Facing daunting prospects after losing a prestigious job, a once-successful science reporter investigates the suspicious death of his college roommate, a Miami Beach plastic surgeon, in an all-or-nothing case that is shaped by the schemes of the reporter's political dissident father.
13) Insane city
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
Author
Series
John Dies at the End volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the activities of a shapeshifting entity that is snatching local kids, the friends from This Book Is Full of Spiders are challenged to navigate an uproariously convoluted maze of illusions, incompetence and lies.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited his grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Deb and Chip, honeymooning at a Caribbean resort, meet a marine biologist who claims to have sighted mermaids at a nearby coral reef, and join with others to protect the mermaids when the resort reveals plans to build a theme park on the reef.
17) Walking money
Author
Series
Bill Tasker volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
State police officer Bill Tasker faces the toughest case of his career when he is framed for a crime involving more than a million dollars of stolen money, a corrupt FBI agent, and a murdered key witness.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.
19) If you left
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated between extreme depressive and manic states — what she calls “the Tombs” and “the Visions” — and Oliver has been the steady hand that guided her to safety. This summer, Althea decides that she will be different from here on. She will be the loving, sexy wife Oliver wants, and the reliable, affectionate mother their nine year-old daughter Clem deserves. Her plan: to bring Clem to their Easthampton...
20) Magnificence
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband’s death. Suddenly gifted her great uncle’s Pasadena mansion, Susan decides to restore his extensive collection of preserved animals, tending to “the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails.” Meanwhile, a menagerie of uniquely damaged humans—including a cheating husband and a chorus of eccentric elderly women—joins her in residence.--Amazon.com.
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