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Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl has been missing from her Montgomery, Alabama, home for six weeks. She may be a runaway, a crime victim, or both. What's amazing is other people's lack of concern. Just one person cares that she's gone: a spunky amateur sleuth on the sunset end of sixty. Armed with razor-sharp insight, a salty wit, and tenacious faith, MacLaren Yarbrough follows a trail of clues -- a wisp of a hint, a shadow of a lie -- in search of answers to questions...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A family torn apart. A daughter determined to stay together. When the parish guardians send Lydia , daughter of convict James Knowles, to be an apprentice in the cotton mill at Caton, she is distraught at being parted from her younger siblings and mother, Betty , but she has no choice. At the mill, Lydia is bullied by some of the other girls and things do not go well when she stands up to the ringleader. Fearing she has killed someone and with the...
3) Dark Places
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Top 10 Modern Westerns for 2016 by True West Magazine
Top Books for 2015 by Strand Magazine
"Reavis Z. Wortham is the real thing: a literary voice that's gut-bucket Americana delivered with a warm and knowing Texas twang." -CJ Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author
At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center...
4) Runner
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jane Whitefield -- the fierce and resourceful heroine of Thomas Perry's most popular thrillers -- returns from retirement to guide a fugitive out of danger.For more than a decade, Jane Whitefield pursued her unusual profession: "I'm a guide . I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is." Then she promised her husband she would never work again, and settled in to live a happy, quiet life...
5) Bad Scene
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
USA Today Best-Selling Author
1978 San Francisco-a cult leader in Ecuador-one woman's struggle to reconnect with her lost daughter before it is too late
When PI and ex-con, Colleen Hayes, learns that a local neo-Nazi group are talking about shooting the mayor, she thinks it's just another rumor-until her source, a humble street newspaper vendor, winds up in SF General, beaten to a pulp.
To add to her grief, she discovers that her runaway...
6) Hello Girls
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Thelma and Louise gets remade in this powerful, darkly funny teen novel from acclaimed authors Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry. Two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in their lives take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves.
Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows that he locks the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel: 1. Mystery 2. A beautiful golem 3. Souped-up slingshots 4. Four black cats 5. Amnesia 6. Calamity Poker 7. Angry ponies 8. A shady truant officer 9. Top-13 lists 10. A sandstorm generator 11. Doppelgängers 12. A secret mission 13. Earwigs Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing. Includes:...
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