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21) The Tuscan child
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed"--
22) Ominous
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Three teenage girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows--and the vow of secrecy they take. Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they've tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the...
23) The last
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fearing she may be the last of her kind, Byx sets off to find a safe haven and to see if the legends of hidden dairnes are true.
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume vol 2
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mystery begins when Aggie Dunkirk exhumes secrets and uncovers a crime her eccentric grandmother has been obsessing over. Decades earlier, after discovering her sister's body in the attic, Imogene Grayson longs for justice. Two women, separated by time, vow to find answers . . . no matter the cost"--
26) Seraphina
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
27) Choose Me
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant&;so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl&;s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there&;s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn&;s suicide&;or a motive for her murder.
To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A local Alaskan man and a California girl search in a terrible snow storm for a lost boy with the help of several unsavory and out-of-place helpers each carrying a dark secret in this award-winning French novel.
29) The false prince
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
31) Moon rising
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Moonwatcher, a young NightWing with secret powers, begins school at the academy started by the dragonets of destiny after the end of the war, she soon realizes that someone is attacking the students. Moon must choose whether to help or continue to hide her gifts"--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When best-selling novelist Vaughn Orr enters her family's remote Wisconsin world, Riley Mays senses he is hiding something she knows all too well, and as the worst moments of their lives threaten their newfound relationship, they must find the courage to confront them to have any hope of a happy future.
33) Steal
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. Twenty-four hours later and still no one has seen him. The one person convinced he's still alive is his father, Mathias von Oehson. But what Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it would be as if he were committing suicide himself. Dylan now...
34) The first
Author
Series
Endling volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Byx and her friends continue their quest to uncover the truth of the legends of hidden dairnes, and soon find themselves unlikely leaders of the simmering rebellion.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As a debtera, nineteen-year-old Andromeda performs exorcisms to cleanse households of the Evil Eye, but when she agrees to work for handsome, young heir Magnus Rochester, her job becomes truly terrifying.
37) The silver mask
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed... but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death and an ever-present threat of war. As a result, Call has been imprisoned...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her husband, Ellie Huang, discovering he had a mistress, cashes in his life insurance policy for an extended stay on the French Riviera with her best friend--a sun-drenched getaway that turns into a reckoning for Ellie as long-simmering tensions and uncomfortable truths come to the surface"--
39) The Red Pyramid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
40) Under their skin
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.