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Author
Series
Gender game volume 2
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Gliding over the treacherous Green in a shaky aircraft that she has no idea how to land, Violet Bates is still in shock. The harrowing events of the previous night play over in her mind as she asks herself question after question: Why did Lee Desmond Bertrand behave the way he did? What is the truth about the mysterious silver egg stowed beneath her seat? What happened to Viggo and where is her brother? Is either of them still alive? When Violet...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Dick Francis novel from the author of Dick Francis's GAMBLE"--Provided by publisher.
"When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last...
Author
Series
Living ted volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After Lisa Marie and her big brother, Vernon, visit a Create-a-Ted store, something unexpected happens. Their teddy bears come to life! And it turns out theirs aren't the only ones... All kinds of stuffed bears--zombies, ghosts, aliens, and more--are suddenly alive and on the loose, and they're not playing nice. Soon there is an army of evil teddy bears creating mayhem all over town! Can Lisa Marie and Vernon save themselves--and the world?"--Back...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Over a year ago, thrill-seeking brothers Wesley and Brent Jamison died in a scuba diving accident, leaving behind their wives, Angela and Eva. While Angela focuses on surviving and taking care of her three children, barely making ends meet, Eva quits working and begins to lose herself in the process of grieving. Life as they knew it seems to be over, and neither can figure out how to move forward. But then Eva discovers that their husbands registered...
Author
Series
The Uncommoners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ivy Sparrow and her big brother Seb discover a city beneath London where ordinary objects have magical powers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ry Morgan has always had a thing for Avery Hayes---one more hope his twin wrecked for him, pretending to be Ry to kiss her at the high school prom. Eight years later, Ry has had enough: he's quitting the pro rodeo circuit, moving home to California to mend fences, and letting his brother clean up his own messes for a change. Reclaiming Avery's stolen kiss is at the top of his agenda. But Avery has changed. Her rodeo career ended with a fall that left...
48) Snowdrift
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström receives a phone call that sends her reeling. It's been fifteen years since Embla's best friend disappeared from a nightclub in Gothenburg, but Embla recognizes her voice immediately, though the call quickly disconnects. Lollo is still alive. But before Embla can dive into the case, she gets another phone call, this time from her cousin. A man has been found shot to death in one of...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a...
50) Beluga
Author
Series
Nick Reid novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A few months ago in Ranchero, Rick Gavin's much-acclaimed Delta noir novel, Nick Reid and his compadre Desmond liberated some money from a nasty meth dealer, and now they need to launder it. After lending out a couple thousand dollars here and there, with hopes of getting a small return, all kinds of "investment opportunities" are coming out of the woodwork, and one of them has trouble written all over it. The brother of Desmond's ex-wife wants a...
51) Spice Road
Author
Series
Spice Road trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the hidden desert city of Qalia, there is secret spice magic that awakens the affinities of those who drink the misra tea. Sixteen-year-old Imani has the affinity for iron and is able to wield a dagger like no other warrior. She has garnered the reputation as being the next great Shield for battling djinn, ghouls, and other monsters spreading across the sands. Her reputation has been overshadowed, however, by her brother, who tarnished the family...
52) Forever Texas
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis "Bone" McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent...
Author
Publisher
LaGalera
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Pepe y Valentina ahora son HERMANOS MAYORES. Y tienen la misma preocupación: la hermanita. Una criatura insoportable que grita, llora ...¡y que les ha invadido su habitación! Una noche, mientras todo el mundo duerme, Pepe oye una voz en la cuna de su hermanita. Pero si ella todavía no sabe hablar ...¿QUIÉN SERÁ? Con los pelos de punta, Pepe y Valentina descubren que los peluches han cobrado vida y planean una rebelión EN MAYÚSCULAS. . Y...
Author
Series
Age of steam volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In steam age America bounty hunter Cedar Hunt finds himself saddled with a group of refugees, including the brother he once thought lost, and to keep them alive he must hunt a powerful weapon known as the Holder--a search that takes him deep into the savage underbelly of the young country and high into the killing glim-field skies defended by desperate men and deadly ships.
56) Still House Pond
Author
Series
Troublesome Creek volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Lilly Gray Corbett loves living on Troublesome Creek, but she would much rather play with her best friend than watch her little brother and the twins. Her mama, Copper, is often gone helping to birth babies, and Lilly has to stay home. When Aunt Alice sends a note inviting her to visit in the city, Lilly is excited to go, and Copper reluctantly agrees to let her. Later, when they hear the news that the train crashed, Copper and her husband, John,...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After Andrea's brother, Francis, disappeared, everything changed. Her world turned upside down, and there was nothing she could do to right it. So when she discovers a magical dream world called Reverie in the woods near her home, Andrea jumps at the chance to escape her pain and go inside. But the cost of admission is high: Andrea must give up a memory in order to enter. And she knows exactly which memory she'd like to give up. Once inside, Andrea...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Kirsten Hammarstrom hasn't been home to her tiny corner of rural Wisconsin in years-not since the mysterious disappearance of a local teenage girl rocked the town and shattered her family. Kirsten was just nine years old when Stacy Lemke went missing, and the last person to see her alive was her boyfriend, Johnny--the high school wrestling star and Kirsten's older brother. No one knows what to believe--not even those closest to Johnny--but the event...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The epic conclusion to the fast-paced new adventure fantasy series, the Duelists trilogy, in the vein of Michael J. Sullivan and Scott Lynch.Vocho and Kacha may be known for the first swordplay in the city of Reyes, but they've found themselves backed into a corner too often for their liking.Finally reinstated into the Duelist's Guild for services rendered to the prelate, who has found himself back in charge, Vocho and Kacha are tasked with bringing...
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