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2481) Set me free
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees-- only...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side. That night, I fantasized about the separate spheres of our lives colliding ..." Introspective and headstrong, and fueled by an intensity she can't name, Margot Louve has lived as her parents' secret. For seventeen years, her father-- an influential French politician with presidential ambitions - has led a double life, his only contact with Margot and her mother...
2484) Zevi takes the spotlight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
118 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Although thirteen-year-old aspiring actor Zevi would like to keep his psychic abilities a secret, he may be forced to use them when a famous actor's life is endagered on a movie set.
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, thirteen-year-old Zevi uses his psychic abilities to save a famous actor's life on a movie set."--
2485) So done
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program. Jamila Phillips and Tai Johnson have been inseparable since they were toddlers, having grown up across the street from each other in Pirates Cove, a low-income housing project. As summer comes to an end, Tai can't...
2486) The daughters of Ys
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ys, city of wealth and wonder, has a history of dark secrets. Queen Malgven used magic to raise the great walls that keep Ys safe from the tumultuous sea. But after the queen's inexplicable death, her daughters drift apart. Rozenn, the heir to the throne, spends her time on the moors communing with wild animals, while Dahut, the youngest, enjoys the splendors of royal life and is eager to take part in palace intrigue. When Rozenn and Dahut's bond...
2487) Miss Meteor
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
Everyone knows Meteor, New Mexico got its name from the space rock that crashed into the desert nearby. Nobody knows that Lita Perez came with it-- or that...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 338 pages : plates, illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his horsedrawn carriage and creating tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. So when, in 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C....
2489) The dead queens club
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
You'd think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you're me-- Annie Marck, alias Cleves-- and you accidentally transform into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of the king himself? Life becomes the exact opposite of boring.Henry has it all: he's the jock, the genius and the brooding bad boy all in one. Which sort of explains why he's on his sixth girlfriend in two years. What it doesn't...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julián Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life. Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key nine months are thrown-- literally-- out the closet. The downside: the whole world knows, and Jules has to prepare for rejection. The upside: Jules now has...
2491) A witch alone
Author
Series
Apprentice witch volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arianwyn is now a fully qualified witch, but what with the war against the Urisians in the northern kingdom of Veersland, the increasing magical activity across the Four Kingdoms, and the Hex driving supernatural creatures out of the Great Wood, the demand for skilled witches still exceeds the supply, and Arianwyn is not really sure that she is up to the dangerous secret mission that the High Elder has assigned to her alone.
2492) On division
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
94 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lily has two tickets to the Hannah Montana concert and invites Miley to attend with her. The two disobey their curfews and try to meet Ashton Kutcher at his movie premiere, and with the possible revelation of Miley's secret the misadventure turns into a family affair. Illustrated with scenes from the television series.
2494) Miraculous
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
298, 11, 18 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A traveling medicine show promises to cure all that ails, but thirteen-year-old Jack and his friend Cora learn it takes more than faith in the miraculous to fix things that are broken.
2495) Holly
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
617 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La nueva novela del Rey del Terror recuerda a joyas como Misery y cuenta con un personaje muy querido por sus fans: Holly Gibney, la detective privada que, por primera vez, protagoniza una novela en solitario. Cuando Penny Dahl contacta con Finders Keepers para que la ayuden a encontrar a su hija, algo en la voz desesperada de la mujer hace que Holly Gibney se vea obligada a aceptar el trabajo. A poca distancia del lugar en el que Bonnie Dahl desapareció,...
2496) Always a Maverick
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Air Force test pilot Blue Donnelly has the greatest job in the world... until his F-22 crashes during a demonstration flight, leaving him with a busted body and a ton of guilt. Then horse whisperer Marin Galloway walks into his hospital room, snapping him out of self-pity with a shock of desire and some surprising news: her six-year-old ward thinks Blue is his daddy. Leo isn't really Blue's son, much as the little boy wishes it. Still, he needs a...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth... For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters--and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things,...
2498) The storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jess Morgan discovers her great-great-aunt's diaries, leading her on a quest to uncover whether Aunt Anna was actually a Romanov princess. Includes author's note.
2499) La noche era terciopelo
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....
2500) The well
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
173 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Known to friends and family as Lizzy, she takes care of her grandfather and their goats, she flirts with the woman who helps row the ferry, and she stays away from the fog that comes in the night-- and the monsters hiding within it. But Lizzy's life comes apart when she steals a handful of coins from a sacred well to cover a debt. The well requires repayment, but it doesn't deal in coins. It needs wishes, and its minions will drown Lizzy in its depths...
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