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741) The bobcat: a novel
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Laurelie, a young art student who suffers in the aftermath of a sexual assault, has grown progressively more isolated and fearful. She transfers from her busy city university to a small college in rural Vermont, where she retreats into her vivid imagination, experiencing the world through her art. Most comfortable in the company of the child for whom she babysits, and most at ease in the woods, Laurelie has shunned any connection with her peers....
742) Alone out here
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She's the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome,...
744) The year they fell
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When their parents are killed in a plane crash, a group of former childhood friends, who are now entering their senior year in high school, are pulled back together by the tragedy.
Josie, Jack, Archie, Harrison, and Dayana were inseparable as preschoolers, but life got in the way. As senior year approaches, with its parties, football, and college applications, they're basically strangers to each other. Then their parents die in a plane crash. To...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate the joining of two people--the groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star; and the bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. And then someone turns up dead.
746) The bear: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite, pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"There's a killer on the road, and nobody is safe. Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown - Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology - they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. Their parents are public intellectuals, an Ivy League clinical psychologist and a renowned psychiatrist, and they brought up their adopted children in a rarefied,...
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In [this book], Frieda faces her most personal case yet when a former classmate appears at Frieda's door, begging for her help. Maddie Capel's teenage daughter, Becky, claims that she was raped in her own bed one night while her mother was downstairs. Her assailant warned, "Don't think of telling anyone, sweetheart. Nobody will believe you." Becky's story awakens dark memories of an eerily similar incident in Frieda's own past. When Becky is found...
749) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
750) Set me free
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
Author
Publisher
Julliard
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
"Léa, 13 ans, vit chez ses parents à Blanquefort, en Gironde, tandis que son frère, 19 ans, est parti à Paris étudier la danse. Un jour, ce dernier reçoit un appel de sa soeur affolée qui lui apprend que leur mère a succombé sous les coups de leur père. Il saute aussitôt dans un train et découvre, sur place, l'effroyable réalité : le cadavre de sa mère, sa soeur mutique et son père en fuite."--leslibraires.ca
752) Redwood and Ponytail
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Told in verse in two voices, with a chorus of fellow students, this is a story of two girls, opposites in many ways, who are drawn to each other; Kate appears to be a stereotypical cheerleader with a sleek ponytail and a perfectly polished persona, Tam istall, athletic and frequently mistaken for a boy, but their deepening friendship inevitably changes and reveals them in ways they did not anticipate.
754) Alex Cross must die
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Cross and his partner John Sampson are hot on the trail of the Dead Hours Killer, who is targeting commercial pilots, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Deadly Cross.
755) The breakdown
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle! THE NEW CHILLING, PROPULSIVE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside--the woman who was killed. She's been trying to...
756) Worst-case Collin
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problems that is spiraling out of control, leaving Colin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone...
758) Henry Hamlet's heart
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen, an imprint of Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Despite their differences, soon to be eighteen-year-olds Henry Hamlet and Lennon Crane have been best friends for most of their lives, but in their senior year at Northolm Grammar School for Boys in Brisbane, Australia, Henry realizes he is in love with Len.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home ends with her imprisonment for a child's murder, a young woman struggles to explain to her lawyer the unraveling events that led to her incarceration.
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