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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When a tornado strikes fifty years after another killed many teens in tiny Mercer, Illinois, some of the dead unite with misfits Brenna, Joshua, and Callie to seek peace.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. As children, they disappeared on a Scottish city street only to return a month later with no memory of what had happened to them or where they’d been. More troubling, their appearance began to change: their blue eyes now black, their dark hair now white. And as they grew older, odd, eerie occurrences seemed to follow in their wake. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably...
4) Rooms
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After Richard Walker dies, his estranged family arrives at his estate for their inheritance, while long-dead former residents bound to the house observe the family and reminisce about their past lives--until the two worlds collide.
6) Afterworlds
Author
Series
Afterworlds volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
315 pages, 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her "aunt." With no relations that she knows of, Molly assumes she has been sold as a maid for the price of an extra donation in the church orphanage's coffers. Such a thing is not unheard of. There are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s Philadelphia. Only, when Molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real,...