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81) Ben and Beatriz
Author
Language
English
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"Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she'd be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn't want to be: spending a week at the ridiculous Cape Cod mansion of stupid-hot playboy...
82) August blue
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A novel by the author of The Man Who Saw Everything about wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, alter egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within all of us"--
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English
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After fleeing the Philippines, Hero De Vera arrives at her uncles where she is given a fresh start. He asks no questions about her disturbing political past, but his daughter, the first American-born family member, is unable to resist her curiosity especially about her cousin's damaged hands.
85) Blood vines
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Alexandra Owens travels to Sonoma, California, to unearth her mysterious past, she finds herself racing to discover the connection between her terrifying visions and a string of ritualistic murders.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Psychotherapist Victoria Vick becomes obsessed with a patient who claims to be a scientist who has stolen cloaking technology from the government in order to render himself nearly invisible. Over time, this obsession threatens her career, her marriage, and her own identity.
87) Mudwoman
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explores the high price of success in the life of one woman--the first female president of an Ivy League university--and her hold upon her self-identity in the face of darkly shrouded secrets from her past.
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past.".
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman.
90) Either/or
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that...
Author
Series
Debutantes (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
92) Nightshade
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it is their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shape-shifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla's heart, she is faced with a decision that could change her whole world.
93) Stay awake
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In the vein of SJ Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and Christopher Nolan's cult classic Memento, Megan Goldin's Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that plays with memory and murder. Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she's dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers-a stranger who now lives in her apartment and forces her out in the cold. She reaches for her phone to call...
94) A lonely man
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An existential mystery that explores the uncertain intersection between fiction and reality, and the disastrous consequences of a chance encounter"--
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bailey moves to California to live with her father and, perhaps, finally meet an online friend and fellow film buff, but soon finds herself attracted to an annoying co-worker.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In their effort to reach the fabled Still Blue, Aria and Perry will have to rescue Cinder, defeat Sable and Hess, and unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders once and for all"--
98) Machine: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning." --
Author
Series
Largo recorrido volume 131
Publisher
Editorial Periférica
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Author
Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Finds criminal psychologist Cyrus Haven uncovering answers about Evie Cormac's dark past that force the latter to flee and question whether or not her secrets should remain hidden.
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