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Chicago celebrity, Charles James can shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted-fame, fans and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this is...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Tessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband--until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce that Tessa's conviction has been overturned on a technicality,...
Author
Series
City of Nightmares volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a con goes wrong, nineteen-year-old Ness finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare"--
5) Thr3e
Author
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A nightmare world begins for Kevin, a young seminarian, when he receives a cell phone call from an unknown man directing him to confess his sin to the world in three minutes or be blown to bits.
6) No way out
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. With the proceeds of a video game she helped develop, Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one except her friend and business partner. Yet even in this quiet small...
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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Believing that everything she has ever wanted is within her grasp, New York City photographer Kristin Burns suffers a recurring nightmare of increasing violence that spills over into her waking life and convinces her that everyone she loves is in mortal danger.
9) Gossamer
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream-giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when her circle of literary friends' infamous book club turns from talk of the lettered world to a nightmare without seeming end. If she's not careful, this may very well be the LAST book party..."--
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Series
Ian Ludlow volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestselling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn't an accident. Years before, the CIA enlisted Ian to dream up terrorism scenarios to prepare the government for nightmares they couldn't imagine. Now one of those schemes has come true, and Ian is the only person alive who knows how it was done...and who is behind the plot. That makes him too dangerous to live. Ian goes...
12) Sanctum
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Plagued by nightmares from their summer in the Brookline asylum, Dan, Abby, and Jordan return to New Hampshire College for a prosective students weekend, only to find themselves caught in a dark and dangerous mystery"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--is back and may have finally met the woman of his dreams in this new mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series. Hamish's new constable, Dorothy McIver, may be the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. Completely bewitched by her sparkling blue eyes, Hamish spends the summer traveling with her up and down Sutherland until finally, he can take...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness explores how artificial intelligence tampers with love, sex, and the basis of artistic creation in a new future Paris. CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since moving in, Clarissa Katsef has had ominous discomfort, the...
16) First family
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Sean King and Michelle maxwell volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Summoned by First Lady Jane Cox to rescue her niece from kidnappers, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are pushed to the limit in a search that is hampered by the highest levels of government security and Michelle's personal demons.
Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
323 pages 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father.
18) One last breath
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English
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Rory Abernathy's wedding to Liam Bastian turned into a bloodbath. She fled after stabbing a masked intruder, just before a gunman opened fire on the wedding party. Five years on, Rory still has no idea who was behind the attacks. Fearful she and her daughter remain targets, she's made a new life far from Liam and the wealthy, powerful Bastians. But even in remote Point Roberts, Washington, she can't hide from the past. Liam tracks Rory down, stunned...
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English
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"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Dead on Target. A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods--with an arrow in his chest and trousers round his ankles. Agatha's old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes,...
20) The First Lady
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English
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"Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private meeting with the President and his Chief of Staff without any witnesses. But she couldn't have predicted that she'd be forced to take on an investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the First Lady with strict orders to keep it a secret. The First Lady's absence comes in the...