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1) Prey
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 367 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the Nevada desert, a handful of scientists are battling to retrieve a swarm of rogue micro-robots that has escaped from the lab. The swarm is self-sustaining, self-reproducing and capable of learning from experience. It is, to all intents and purposes, alive. And very, very deadly. Because it has been programmed as a ruthless predator, a predator that becomes more dangerous with every passing hour ... And we are the prey.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Laura esta en peligro: algo siniestro la acosa desde su pasado. Y no puede saber si existe o no porque su mente difumina los contornos de la realidad, invadida por alucinaciones constantes que la envuelven como una telarana. En compania de Julian y Alejandro, dos pacientes de las sesiones de terapia a las que ella tambien asiste para tratar su patologia, Laura luchara por escapar de ese peligro que cada vez va haciendose mas real. Con la critica...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
405 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything changed. Charlotte wants desperately to get back to 'normal,' –whatever that means now– and start reconnecting with friends she hasn't spoken to in months. And she's trying to work through her PTSD with the help of her therapist, only she can't tell the truth about Jerry or what really happened the night he died. Just when Charlotte thinks she...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This diabolical and devilishly clever twist on Shakespeare's Richard III follows Rory, a scholarship kid teased for her weight, as she tells us exactly the lengths she'll go to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy's senior musical.
5) Matterhorn
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind-back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya-his close friend, his rival in love....
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners."--WorldCat.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Un moderno Bob Cratchit, Hugo Contreras, vive en un humedo departamento de una sola habitacion y sabe que nunca dejara de pagar las cuentas medicas de su difunta esposa ni sus propias deudas, acumuladas durante su juventud. Su Scrooge es Alexi Ramirez, un avaricioso abogado de cobranza cubano-americano con un rostro familiar por sus anuncios en las paradas de autobus y un serio problema personal: un fantasma en el caseron de su familia. Es bajo estas...
Author
Series
Honey badger chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Emily 'Tock' Lepstein-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she's narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey--not even a dog-loving tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn't matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn't have time to...
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 14
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When Nightshade kidnaps his best friend, teen spy Alex Rider must enter the world of virtual reality gaming where the lines between what's real and what's digital are deliberately being blurred by a ruthless enemy."--
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It looks like paradise…only it’s not. This was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime family trip to Thailand. One last wish for my dying mama. Instead, we’re stranded on a lush, stunning island with ten strangers—held captive as Thai mythology unfolds around us…and within us. Now we’re being tested. We’re expected to face our greatest fears—and possible deaths—in hopes of awakening some...
12) Gaslight
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Comany
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"A shadow has fallen over the megachurch in Ogun State, Nigeria: the beloved Bishop Dawodu has been arrested for the murder of his wife. Sade Dawodu has vanished without a trace and although no body has been found, the police have acted based on what they claim is damning evidence. Philip Taiwo, hot off the success of solving the Okriki Three case, is brought on to investigate. He quickly learns that Sade, young, impulsive, and outspoken, is no favorite...
13) In her tracks
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 8
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD's cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl's disappearance, Tracy is brought into...
14) I will find you
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Nicky has disappeared! Olivia, Leo, and Gracie--three seventh graders who have very little in common except for how much they dislike Nicky, the school bully--were the last ones to see him. They are sure that there are clues the police are overlooking. And they each have their own secret reason for needing to find him as soon as possible. As they investigate, they discover that things are more complicated than they had seemed. Nicky's victims made...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
Working for his mother, the sheriff of an idyllic Midwestern resort town, Eli North, when the body of a teenage boy is found in the lake, is drawn into an investigation related to America's opioid epidemic that becomes much more than just a hunt for a killer.
Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job...
16) The teacher
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
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Description
"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of psychological suspense. Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation. When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients-committed by Maryland's judicial system for perpetrating heinous crimes-would...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said. And after Libby's recent bipolar III diagnosis and the tragedy that preceded it, Libby knows she and her family need to find a new normal. But Libby's new home turns out to be anything but normal. Scores of bugs haunt its winding halls, towering stained-glass windows feature strange, insectile designs, and the garden teems with impossibly blue roses. And then there are the...
19) Anna O: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed 'Sleeping Beauty' by the tabloids, Annas condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
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