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Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A newly married couple is confined inside an opulent Beverly Hills hotel as wildfires rage through LA county and tensions mount between guests and staff, testing social boundaries and hurtling toward disaster, revealing the idle delusions of the wealthy and privileged in times of crisis"--
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a bombing at the Newpointe Post Office, a gunman holds Jill Clark hostage in her hotel room, but after he is apprehended and claims to be innocent, Jill begins to wonder if he is as guilty as he appears.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in 1929 in Alaska, Tayler Hale, one of the first women naturalists, loves adventure and the great outdoors. Unfortunately, she is running from her dangerous past which has caught up with her just as she has met Thomas Smith, a recent graduate returning home to the people he considers family.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping new stand-alone novel from USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble" --
"A wealthy hotel heiress. Even though Torie Bergstrom hasn't been back to Georgia since she was ten, she's happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of the family properties on Jekyll Island. A suspicious death. But when Torie learns that her bestfriend has drowned, she knows it is more than a tragic accident: Lisbeth was terrified of water...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Author
Series
Love on the Santa Fe volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Trouble is brewing, and there are those who hope Isabella stays just as she is, even if it costs her everything"--
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily accompanies her older sister on a trip to a hotel on the New Jersey shore but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel.
9) Fire star
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
549 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
David Rain is faced with the most perilous task yet when Gwilanna returns, this time determined to resurrect the dragon Gawain on the ice cap of the Tooth of Ragnar, unless David and her friends can stop her.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
155 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
11) Icefire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Recently widowed Susanna Jenkins has decided to follow her family to the booming town of San Marcial, New Mexico, for a fresh start and to aid in her family's sudden change in fortune. They are tasked with managing her uncle's new Grand Hotel, and it takes all her patience to try to help her parents see the good of their circumstances and relinquish their sense of entitlement. Owen Turner works as a boilermaker for the Santa Fe's train shops in San...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When a troupe of theater students get stranded in a creepy old motel during a blizzard, they play a foreboding game of truth and lies that leads to real danger when a murderer is discovered in their midst"--
14) Winterhouse
Author
Series
Winterhouse trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Spending Christmas break at Winterhouse Hotel, eleven year-old Elizabeth discovers that she has magic and finds that her love of puzzles helps her solve a mystery.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Amanda Quick, the bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part , transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins... When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool... The dead woman had...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
17) The fire within
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A vacation to Sunset Cove was her way of celebrating and thanking her parents. After all, Claire Dellamare's childhood was like a fairytale. But with the help of Luke Rocco, Claire discovers that fairytale was really an elaborate lie...The minute she steps inside the grand Inn at Ocean's Edge, Claire Dellamare knows something terrible happened there. She feels it in her bones. Her ensuing panic attack causes a scene, upsetting her parents. Claire...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories-half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new-opening fresh realms of discovery...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...