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1341) Roses & violets
Author
Series
Rosenholm trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Four girls receive invitations to apply for a school they've never heard of and make it through the unusual testing process to find themselves placed in a magical boarding school for students with powers. Once the school year begins, a young woman's spirit urges the new girls to solve her murder which has been cold since the 1980s -- but unbeknownst to them, doing so will put them in mortal danger.
1342) Tenderness
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lori Cranston is a confused fifteen-year-old dreamer in search of an escape from her troubled home life. She discovers and becomes enthralled with Eric, a young man with a violent past. As they embark on a harrowing journey, a hardened local cop, who has been following Eric for years, is intent on exposing him as a serial killer before Lori's fate is determined.
1343) Ethic II
Author
Series
Ethic novels (Ashley Antoinette) volume 2
Publisher
Ashley Antoinette Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Love should burn slowly, but with Ezra "Ethic" Okafor it is always fleeting. After an accidental killing affects Alani, the woman he loves, she thinks he's a monster. Separated by tragedy, the pair endure a loss like nothing they have ever felt and their connection is impossible to repair. Ethic is reduced to misery and raising his children alone once again. With Morgan in the throes of a passionate love affair and Bella in need of guidance that...
1345) Ethic III
Author
Series
Ethic novels (Ashley Antoinette) volume 3
Publisher
Ashley Antoinette Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Healing requires separation. When Ethic discovers malice in a woman he thought was perfect, he walks away from their love. Keeping his family safe is his main priority and falling for Alani Lenika Hill is dangerous. The history of their love haunts him however, and getting over her isn't easy. Alani has beguiled his two youngest children and they crave her presence as much as Ethic. They want a mother. He wants a woman, but with ghosts and lies between...
1346) Swanna in love
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late--stoned and radiant--in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont-- to an artist colony where kids...
1347) The limits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters -- a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan -- who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year"--
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral...
1348) Honey so sweet: 7
Author
Series
Honey so sweet volume 7
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nao Kogure becomes jealous when Taiga Onise becomes a mentor to new student Miyabi Nishigaki.
1349) Cette petite lueur
Author
Publisher
Alto
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
En 2024, au coeur d'une Californie où la droite religieuse s'impose en autorité, Rory Miller et sa meilleure amie, Feliza Lopez, sont accusées d'avoir fait exploser une bombe dans leur école privée le soir du Bal de la pureté américaine. Leurs têtes sont mises à prix, elles sont recherchées de toutes parts. Terrorisées, les deux adolescentes trouvent refuge à l'intérieur d'une remise dans les montagnes dominant Malibu, à l'abri des drones...
1350) Appetite for innocence
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he's not interested in just any teenage girls--only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once he's captured them, they're locked away in his sound-proof basement until they're groomed and ready. He throws them away like pieces of trash after he's stolen their innocence. Nobody escapes alive. Until Ella. Ella risks it all to escape, setting herself...
1351) Promise kept
Author
Series
Promises volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Asher has maneuvered himself into a position of great importance, but his ambition may cost him his best friend's life. Promise and Asher have each come into their own, but will they ever be able to come together?
1352) Last girls
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Demetra Brodsky's Last Girls is a twisting, suspenseful YA thriller about sisterhood, survival, and family secrets set in the world of doomsday prepping. No one knows how the world will end. On a secret compound in the Washington wilderness, Honey Juniper and her sisters are training to hunt, homestead, and protect their own. Prepare for every situation. But when danger strikes from within, putting her sisters at risk, training becomes real life,...
1353) Saving Emma
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
1354) The queen's rising
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When her seventeenth summer solstice arrives, Brienna desires only two things: to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in the southern kingdom of Valenia at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with a talent for one of the five passions - art, music, dramatics, wit, and knowledge - Brienna struggled to find hers until she chose knowledge. However, despite all her preparations, Brienna's greatest...
1357) The crown of embers
Author
Series
Fire and thorns trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Hero. Foreigner. Queen. Elisa, at the age of seventeen, is all three. And all three draw enemies. Faced with assassins, court politics, and the threat of civil war, Elisa despairs of being the ruler her people need. Her only hope is the Godstone. She must master its power once and for all. She finds clues hidden in a long forgotten--and forbidden--scripture. Accompanied by a one-eyed warrior, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love...
Publisher
Shout! Kids
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dance Magic: Rarity convinces her friends to enter a music video contest. Movie Magic: Rainbow Dash is thrilled when she and the rest of the girls are invited to visit the set of the upcoming Daring Do movie. Mirror Magic: Sunset Shimmer travels to Equestria and invites Starlight Glimmer to visit Canterlot High.
1359) Pieces of a girl
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Pieces of a Girl is a memoir about abuse and addiction and the power of storytelling and community that helped zine creator and novelist Stephanie Kuehnert survive and thrive. Told in journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the story of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to beocme a strong young woman after years trapped in a cycle that...
1360) Speak: the graphic novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"'Speak up for yourself we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless an outcast because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She...
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