Shan
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 4
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a story told in graphic novel format, best friends Darren and Steve visit a mysterious freak show known as the Cirque du Freak, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 6
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, faces certain death. Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan -- can Darren reverse the odds and outwit a Vampire Prince and scores of murderous vampanese, or is this the end of thousands of years of vampire rule?"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their Japanese occupiers. While still a schoolgirl in braids, she takes her first lover, a dissident student. The more she understands of adult life, however, the more disdainful she is of its deceptions, and the more she loses herself in her one true passion: the ancient...
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak volume 1
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Darren and Harkat face monstrous obstacles on their desperate quest to the Lake of Souls"--p. [1] of cover.
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 7
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Setting out from Vampire Mountain, Darren embarks on a mission as part of an elite quartet sent to find the Vampanese Lord. Along their journey, though, they are imparted an ominous prophecy: '--If you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan'" -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 8
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Darren Shan, a normal human boy, is coerced by the vampire Larten Crepsley into becoming his assistant and a half-vampire.
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 12
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Visiting his hometown with the Cirque Du Freak, Darren falls into a vampaneze trap and is shot with a bowgun by Steve's son, Darius. Saved by the vampirites, Darren is reunited with his friends, but another enemy attack leads to Evra's son, Shancus', abduction. With Darius held hostage in order to strike a deal, Darren witnesses the horrible sight of Steve murdering Shancus. And to make things worse, Darius is Darren's nephew!
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 11
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Darren Shan returns home to settle scores and face old enemies.
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 9
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Darren, Mr. Crepsley, and Vancha, on the run from the townspeople and the vampaneze, prepare to take a stand when they realize they cannot evade their pursuers, haunted by Lady Evanna's prediction that only one of them would live if they failed to kill the Vampaneze Lord.
Author
Publisher
MIT Kids Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"More than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it--among them Wu Lien-teh, who had overcome hurdles to be a doctor since his boyhood in Malaysia. Unlike others, Dr. Wu deduced the disease was spread through airborne bacteria and advocated for quarantines and other measures familiar to readers today, including the use of a face covering he...
52) Come and get us
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What is her husband's secret?Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: "Be careful who you trust."BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON Novels you can devour in a few hoursImpossible to stop listeningAll original content from James Patterson.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The highly anticipated prequel to the New York Times bestselling Cirque Du Freak series!
Before Cirque Du Freak...
Before the war with the vampaneze...
Before he was a vampire.
Larten Crepsley was a boy.
As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman killed his brother as an example to the other children.
In that moment, young Larten flies...
Before Cirque Du Freak...
Before the war with the vampaneze...
Before he was a vampire.
Larten Crepsley was a boy.
As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman killed his brother as an example to the other children.
In that moment, young Larten flies...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On her sixth birthday, Mei Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Alliana spends her days tending to her stepfamily's inn at the edge of the abyss, but when she rescues an orphaned nightdragon and later helps an apprentice witch, she seizes her chance to escape her stepmother's tyranny and find her own happily ever after.
Author
Series
Eva Evergreen volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Young witch Eva Evergreen embarks on a journey to find the source of the powerful, magical storm known as the Culling and put an end to it once and for all.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four short thrillers co-written by James Patterson. THE TRIAL An accused murderer called Kingfisher is on trial. And Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are in for a courtroom shocker you'll never see coming. LITTLE BLACK DRESS Can a little black dress change everything? What begins as one woman's fantasy is about to go too far. HEIST A band of ruthless thieves is about to pull off the perfect diamond heist-until a rival crew arrives...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Come and get us: Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: "Be careful who you trust".
Three women disappear: When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"First there was one Zhou brother, and then there were two. They lived in a bookstore with their grandmother, Po Po, whose stories of paintings that flew through the air and landed on mountain cliffs inspired them to create their own art. Amid the turbulence of China's Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, the Zhou Brothers began painting together on the same canvas. Today, ShanZuo and DaHuang Zhou are icons in the art world, renowned for working side...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
113 minutes: Molly Rourke's son has been murdered--and she knows who's responsible. Now she's taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mother's love.
Dead man running: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases--and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers a plot to kill a presidential candidate.
The 13-minute murder: Micheal Ryan can kill anybody in just minutes--from the first approach to the clean escape. His...