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42) The reckoning
Author
Series
Children's House volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
43) The liar
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn volume 3
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
44) Anthem: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Netflix ; Lionsgate ; Entertainment One Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 453 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. It's 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.
49) A far country
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
267 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted...
51) Lonestar angel
Author
Series
Lonestar volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
When Eden Larson's estranged husband, Clay, delivers the news that their lost baby girl who was kidnapped years earlier may have been found, the couple's love for each other is rekindled as they investigate.
Author
Series
Kouplan volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can't contact the police?" That's where Kouplan comes in. He's an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement with a radical newspaper hated by the regime was discovered....
53) Dirt Creek
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins...
54) The false friend
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celia and Djuna ruled their clique of friends with dual iron fists. But when Djuna disappeared while the duo was walking home together, Celia buried the terrible truth of that day deep down inside. Now, twenty years later, Celia is unable to consciously keep her secret any longer. Despite her success, her personal life has fallen stagnant, and, buried under the weight of her awful past, Celia returns to her hometown to confess her sins.
55) Caught
Author
Language
English
Description
Wendy Tynes, a reporter who identifies sexual predators through sting operations, has publicly shamed dozens of men before she encounters Dan Mercer. Dan is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What if?
What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he’d never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local tavern, and gotten into a bar fight defending her honor? Or offered a ride to Dan Young, another young man like Sean, burdened by secrets and just drifting through the small Wisconsin town?
Instead, Sean enlists Dan’s help with a construction job in the basement of a local—the elderly, reclusive Marion...
57) NOS4A2: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Victorial McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massacusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
58) Nails
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
59) A dandelion wish
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Mia and her friends have discovered a magical passageway to Never Land! But when her little sister Gabby goes to Never Land alone, the passageway closes up, with a fairy stuck on the Main Land side, too"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When their reckless cousin runs off with a guy she met online to avoid going to boarding school, long-suffering Richard and renegade Wild Skink brave storms, wildlife, and violence in a swampy region of Florida to find her.