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21) Leading lady
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tales of London is set in the fascinating world of the London theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. Wardrobe mistress Bethia Rayborn incites the wrath of Muriel Pearce Holt, the new leading lady at London's Royal Court Theatre. Muriel plots revenge, but in scheming to steal Bethia's true love, she may lose the truest love she has ever known.
22) Long way down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixty seconds. Seven floors. Three rules. One gun.
Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge. Do. No matter what.
But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Description
"When a treacherous betrayal ruins her chances for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank, Greene Brothers Hale, in NYC, intern Faye Walker, using her natural born gift for numbers, proves she is not one to be played with as she puts in motion a new plan"--
24) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels' dazzling new novel, a woman devastated by betrayal embarks on a daring quest for justice. . .
She Lost Everything. . .
Kate and Alex Rocket are blessed with a wonderful marriage and a lovely home. Although Kate can't have children, she and Alex look upon Sara and Emily, daughters of their good friends Don and Debbie Winter, as part of their family.
Except Hope. . .
With one phone call, everything...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
26) Lethal justice
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 6
Language
English
Description
Alexis Thorn, once a successful securities broker, spent a hellish year behind bars for a crime she never committed. Meanwhile the real criminals, her former employers, continue to make millions by conning the innocent and preying on the elderly. Alexis dreams of getting even.
27) Endurance
Author
Series
Green volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Courtesan and trained assassin Green returns to Copper Downs where she must defend the gods from the Godslayers, magicians dedicated to the destruction of all deities, by tracking them down and removing the threat.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
29) Furious
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After becoming the Furies of Greek mythology, three angry high school girls take revenge on everyone who deserves it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A busy teacher, wife and mother juggles her nonstop commitments and is shocked when she receives an ominous, threatening note in the mail warning her that she's about to be taught a lesson.
32) Felix Ever After
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, Robin, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes lives in a world of her imagination, until, at the age of twelve, she decides to find Robin's murderer and exact her revenge.
34) #NoEscape
Author
Series
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When contestants in an escape room challenge start being killed, seventeen-year-old Persey must solve a series of bizarre and gruesome puzzles, riddles, and games to make it out alive.
35) The favorites
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Enrolling in the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University to exact revenge on the professor she believes is responsible for her sister’s death, Jessie Mooney will cross any line to hold him accountable as the truth becomes darkly twisted.
36) Cross roads
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood Will Not Be Broken.
It's been a year and a half since the women of the Sisterhood received their presidential pardons, but the freedom they craved has come at a high price. The impossibly lucrative positions handed out to them by the mysterious Global Securities company have turned out to be golden handcuffs--scattering them around the world, cutting off communication, and leaving them in miserable isolation.
But a happy homecoming...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Camille Gardener is a grieving--and angry--mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women--the collective--Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment,...