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Author
Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley-a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley's estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone doesn't want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadley's past-or...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris thrills listeners with the fourth book of her spectacular Sookie Stackhouse series. Driving home from work, barmaid and telepath Sookie Stackhouse discovers vampire and area sheriff Eric on the side of the road missing his shirt, his shoes and his memories. Featuring vampires, werewolves and magic galore, Dead to the World will satisfy any listener's craving for the supernatural.
Author
Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the second book in Charlaine Harris' popular Southern Vampire Mysteries series. Telepathic vampire maven (and cocktail waitress) Sookie Stackhouse has been tasked with locating an abducted vampire and suppressing an upstart anti-undead religious cult. "This is one terrific read."-Kliatt
Author
Language
English
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Description
A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon, but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to the mobster's will until he decides to take the big boss down.
7) Knockout
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are back in this electrifying thriller as they attempt to keep Autumn Backman, a seven-year-old telepath, from falling into the hands of her uncle and his growing army of exploited children.
10) Mind of my mind
Author
Series
Patternists volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1994], c1977
Language
English
11) Drink of me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Reule, the telepathically gifted Prime of the Sánge, who are scorned by every other race, rescues a beautiful amnesiac outlander he names Mystique, he is unable to control his need for this mysterious woman.
12) The Hollow
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom--ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries. Now they face seven days of madness, every seven years. As the dreaded seventh month looms before them, they are plauged by visions of death and destruction.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alec Charlesworth, a librarian suddenly facing the loss of his job, the death of his wife, and his sister's disappearance, hears a shocking tale of dark forces from his sister's cat, Roger, who is the only witness to what happened to her.
16) Palace of stone
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
17) Acorna's quest
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 2
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
18) Predatory game
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
What Jess senses in Saber is a kindred spirit, a lost soul desperate for sanctuary. He offers her a home, a job, and a haven where she can safely reveal the secrets that shadow her. Danger follows her, too. Now, the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.
19) Patternmaster
Author
Series
Patternists volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
20) The Old African
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An elderly slave uses the power of his mind to ease the suffering of his fellow slaves and eventually lead them back to Africa. Based on an actual incident from black history.
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