Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Girl's guide (Laura Taylor Namey) volume 2
Formats
Description
Winchester, England, has always been home for Flora, but when her mother dies after a long illness, Flora feels untethered. Her family expects her to apply to university and take a larger role in their tea-shop business, but Flora isn't so sure. More than ever, she's the chaotic "hurricane" in her household, and she doesn't always know how to manage her stormy emotions. So she decides to escape to Miami without telling anyone-especially her longtime...
82) That summer
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
487 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
85) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Description
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
86) The forgotten
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
87) Long drive home
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
Impulsively veering his car into the path of a reckless driver, Glen Bauer inadvertently kills a young man and constructs an elaborate cover story, a situation that is complicated by police suspicions, agonizing guilt, and his seven-year-old daughter's witness to the crash.
88) Very bad people
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Calliope Bolan joins a powerful secret society at her new boarding school, hoping to find answers about her mother's death, but she becomes involved in a dangerous campaign for revenge that threatens her new friendships.
89) Fracture
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.
90) The loop
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In New Orleans, Louisiana, star-crossed teens Ben and Maggie try to find a way to escape the time loop that always ends in their murder.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.
93) Cress Watercress
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
96) The ghost writer
Author
Formats
Description
In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's...
97) Distortion
Author
Series
Formats
Description
When Juliet Cole's husband of 15 years is murdered before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting. Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning, then returns home to break the tragic news to her boys. But a threatening voicemail takes this from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack. Juliet realizes that she and her children are in danger too, unless she meets the killer's demands.
99) As I lay dying
Author
Formats
Description
As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title