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21) Under currents
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Language
English
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"Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages--and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
23) Brutal youth
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Language
English
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"Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a faculty that's even worse in Anthony Breznican's Brutal Youth. With a plunging reputation and enrollment rate, Saint Michael's has become a crumbling dumping ground for expelled delinquents and a haven for the stridently religious when incoming freshman Peter Davidek signs up. On his first day, tensions...
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An ex-IRA soldier must save a priest targeted for elimination to gain absolution for his violent past. Everyone has demons to overcome, but Martin Fallon has more than most. A ruthless hitman and executioner for the IRA, Fallon is haunted by a mistake that led to the explosion of a school bus full of children. When he's threatened by the sadistic Meehan brothers, Fallon must agree to one last hit. But this time there's a witness: a priest named Father...
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Get the Summary of Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia...
27) The rabbit hutch
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
28) Edge
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy searches for revenge on the streets of Oakland The battle is nearly over. The outsiders-who came to Oakland looking for excitement-are about to get back on the highway and go home. But they hurt 1 of Zach's friends, and he can't let that stand. He hurls a chunk of concrete at their car, starting a fight that turns into a riot. The police flood the streets with teargas, and Zach gets lost in the chaos. In the melee, he finds something...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Annabelle Aster doesn't bow to convention-not even that of space and time-which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field that has appeared in her modern-day San Francisco garden easy to accept. Even more peculiar is Elsbeth, the truculent schoolmarm who sends Annie letters through the mysterious brass mailbox perched on the picket fence that now divides their two worlds. Annie and Elsbeth's search for an explanation to the hiccup in the universe linking...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this small gem of a novel, a thoughtful boy on the lip of adolescence struggles to make sense of the evil that resides in his small town. Told with brilliant, lyric push, this tale reveals the unconscious rush that childhood is, that nagging dream that still persists because it means something to the heart. At twelve, this boy floats quietly through his world, voyeur to the complexities that both bind and tear his seemingly placid community. He...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one. As Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into...
33) Native son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young black man finds release only in acts of violence.
34) Vera
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A handsome stranger enters Lucy Entwhistle's life on the very day of her father's death. Everard Wemyss is mourning the recent loss of his wife, and he and Lucy are drawn together in their shared experience of grief. A remarkable bond forms between the despairing couple, the thought of separation proves intolerable, and they are quickly married and settled into Everard's isolated country home, The Willows. But everything about the mansion is shadowed...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all. ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
36) Double Delight
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An upstanding juror becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive plaintiff in this "fast-paced, haunting" novel by a #1 New York Times --bestselling author (Boston Sunday Herald). Terence Greene is admired for his perfect life in an affluent New Jersey suburb, and for his marriage to a minister's beautiful and wealthy daughter. He's also envied for his successful career as director of an arts foundation. But all of that changes when Terence is summoned...
37) The Savage Day
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A desperate man goes up against the IRA to buy his freedom in this heart-racing thriller from the New York Times -bestselling author of The Midnight Bell. After surviving the war in Korea, Simon Vaughan decided the only loyalty he had was to the man in the mirror. For a while, the high-risk job of arms dealing seemed to be just the life for him. Too bad the Greek authorities didn't see it that way when they tossed him in prison. But now he's gotten...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
“Stitched together with love, this is a story just waiting for your favorite reading chair. With her signature style and skill, Susan Wiggs delivers an intricate patchwork of old wounds and new beginnings, romance and the healing power of friendship, wrapped in a lovely little community that’s hiding a few secrets of its own.”
— Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
— Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
The
...Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of If You Knew Her comes this harrowing tale of suspense-a story ripped from today's headlines-of a tight-knit English community, who's rocked by the murder of a mother and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie concealed beneath a carefully constructed facade. A small town's beloved family. A shocking, senseless crime-and the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Five Total Strangers and "master of suspense" ( BCCB ), Natalie D. Richards, comes a pulse-pounding YA thriller about a girl who goes on a mysterious scavenger hunt, only to discover that someone knows her worst secret... and is out for blood. I know seven dirty secrets: One caused the fall. One did nothing. One saw it all. One didn't care. One used their head. One played the hero. One was left for dead....
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