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3201) The last of August
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn't the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family's Sussex estate is palpably tense. On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could be becoming more than friends but still, the darkness in Charlotte's past is a wall between them.
Author
Series
Department Q volume 5
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times and internationally bestselling author returns with an astonishing and sinister case for Department Q All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First William Morrow edition.
Physical Desc
412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Joining her fellow English villagers in a misty churchyard on St. Mark's Eve, a taxidermist's daughter reflects on the mysterious downfall of her father's once-famous museum before discovering the body of a stranger whose death unlocks dark memories.
3204) The couple next door
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
308 p.
Language
English
Description
""I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!"--Sue Grafton, New York Times bestselling author of X "Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn the final page."--Harlan Coben, #1New York Times bestselling author of Fool Me Once "Provocative and shocking."--Lisa Gardner, the New York Times bestselling author of Find Her How...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
175 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Friends Ook and Gluk are always getting into trouble with their village chief until they pass through a portal into a future run by the chief's descendant, where they learn kung fu so they can return to the past and free their people.
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect -- or so it seems. Then she's in a terrible accident... and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unalbe to walk. She can't feed or dress herself. She can't even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria's husband...
3209) What lives in the woods
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives...
3210) I am Pilgrim: a thriller
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler books/Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
612 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A breakneck race against time ... and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity....
Author
Series
Stone Maidens volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forensic anthropologist Christine Prusik has a knack for solving the most unusual cases--and for bending the rules in the process. When the bodies of young women start appearing in the caves of Indiana and Illinois, Christine immediately jumps into action. But her Chicago field office is undergoing a reorganization, and the boys' club at the top seem more interested in getting all the paperwork in order than solving the murders. Christine isn't going...
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume Book 22
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife Marybeth make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers' crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series. A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time, Marybeth...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hunter Galen and Nicki Price join forces to solve Hunter's business partner's death. Encountering sophisticated shell games, black mail, and death threats the only thing they can really on is faith and fearless determination.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.
The...
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes novel volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
321, 15 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
3216) In milady's chamber
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
349 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Low Dealings in High Society...Estranged from her aristocratic husband through her failure to produce an heir, Lady Fieldhurst resolves to repay his neglect by taking a lover. Fate takes a hand when she and her paramour enter her bedroom and find Lord Fieldhurst lying on the floor-with her nail scissors protruding through his neck.Idealistic young Bow Street Runner John Pickett has spent most of his brief career chasing petty pickpockets. Nothing...
3217) Say no more
Author
Series
Sacramento novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
629 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again in this electrifying novel in the Sacramento series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. Seventeen years ago. That was the last time Mercy Callahan saw Ephraim Burton, the leader of the twisted Eden cult where she was raised. But even though she escaped the abuse and terror, they continue to haunt her. When her brother Gideon...
3218) Sons of thunder
Author
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sofia Frangos is torn between the love of hot-headed, passionate Markos and his younger brother, quiet, intelligent Dino. Markos longs to honor his family, Dino wants to forget the tragedy that drove them from their Greek home to the shores of America. One brother offers the past she loves...the other, a future. Which 'Son of Thunder' will she choose? From Chicago's sultry jazz-era clubs...to Europe's World War II battlefields...to a final showdown...
3219) Cutting edge
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Alaska, Trey DeBolt enjoys a rewarding job with limitless adventure. His life is uprooted, however, when his helicopter goes down during a particularly harrowing rescue. Gravely injured, DeBolt awakens weeks later to severe headaches and a battered body. He remembers little about the crash. Most disconcerting of all are his surroundings--he is recovering, not in a hospital, but in a seaside cabin in Maine, thousands...
3220) Indian burial ground
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on--just like her beloved Uncle Louie before...