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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Stories featuring young women struggling against the odds and other themes return to the author's imaginary world of Tortall but also feature other magical places, including New York City, as well as an autobiographical tale.
2102) Capital crimes
Author
Language
English
Description
When California state representative Davida Grayson is murder detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis must unravel her complex life to catch the murder. In Nashville detectives Baker Southerby and Lamar Van Gundy must find out who slashed the throat of Jack Jeffries, rock legend, who had just come out of retirement to do a benefit.
2103) Rotos
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Español
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
This collection of six short novels connected by themes of crime, corruption, and redemption is injected with the author's trademark blend of insight, humanity, and humor.
2104) Valentine candy murder
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Valentine murder: Lucy Stone knows new librarian Bitsy Howell rubbed some people the wrong way-- but enough to get her murdered? Chocolate covered murder: Lucy Stone is writing a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer Chocolate, but finds store manager Tamzin Graves murdered-- and covered in chocolate.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From creatures of the night to even more terrifying creatures of the day, HAUNTHOLOGY is an anxiety-inducing collection of 28 short stories and vignettes from the mind of JEREMY HAUN, the writer and artist behind THE BEAUTY, THE REALM, The Red Mother, The Approach and other nightmarish mindscapes. Whether exploring a claustrophobic old house full of nefarious entities or the heavy thoughts one has during the pending end of the world, this very personal...
2106) Cursed bunny
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Collection of short stories that blend horror, surrealism, and speculative fiction to take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and reign of big tech"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of linked stories follows four generations of the Songs, a Korean American family, beginning in 1924 just prior to the Immigration Act and extending to near the end of the century. The stories chart the shifting definitions of Americanness, desire and belonging articulated, in turns, by the mother, father, grand-daughter, great-grandson, and even a ghost child who died after a tragic accident. But they center on the experience of...
Author
Series
Tucker Wayne novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma Force spinoff adventure from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood. Tucker Wayne's past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She's on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them...
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A "collection of twelve dark academia short stories...In these stories, dear student, retribution visits a lothario lecturer; the sinister truth is revealed about a missing professor; a forsaken lover uses a seance for revenge; an obsession blooms about a possible illicit affair; two graduates exhume the secrets of a reclusive scholar; horrors are uncovered in an obscure academic department; five hopeful initiates must complete a murderous task and...
2115) Drunken fireworks
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
A salt-of-the-earth Maine native recounts how a friendly annual summer fireworks show rivalry with his neighbor across the lake gradually spirals out of control, with explosive results.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Margarita Garc̕a Robayo looks at the world with ruthless attention but also with extreme naturalness: she is never completely outside of what she observes or what she names, and the exercise of looking at herself in the mirror does not paralyze her, quite the contrary. It is impossible to describe the raw and warm irreverence of her writing. Her characters resemble each other but perhaps they would not agree, because they do not want to resemble...
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale set in the seventh grade in the weeks leading up to Ali's murder reveals her plots against Emily, Hanna, Aria and Spencer, as well as a dark secret that has the potential to destroy everything.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning collection of interconnected stories, set mostly in New England, exploring how the past is often misunderstood and how history, family, heartache, and desire can echo over centuries In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck's ingenious collection, each story has a companion...
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