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1241) Bad bird
Author
Series
Jackie Swaitkowski mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Investigating an unusual set of photos taken by a plane crash victim, Jackie Swaitkowski is surprised to discover familiar, notorious faces in the pictures and realizes that the plane crash may be tied to a mystery from Jackie's own past.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines...
1243) City of spies
Author
Series
Pagan Jones volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After ex-juvenile-detainee Pagan Jones, part-time Hollywood starlet, part-time spy, returns from making a film in Berlin, she's called upon by the handsome secret agent Devin Black to head to Buenos Aires for an undercover mission. She's to star in a cheesy film with bad actors while trying to track down a Nazi war criminal who has ties to her mother.
1244) The king is dead
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
As the newly crowned first Black king of England, seventeen-year-old James faces intense media scrutiny and a blackmailer intent on disclosing his deepest secrets, including his sexuality and hidden relationship.
Heavy is the crown James has been born to wear, especially as the first Black heir to the British throne. But with his father's recent passing, and with a new boyfriend to hide, James is woefully unprepared for the sudden shine of public...
1245) Army brats
Author
Formats
Description
When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the "cool" girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual--but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick's secrets.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
477 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
El reino de Azenor está invadido por una maldición desde hace años. Cada luna nueva, la magia fluye desde la montaña y hace que las pesadillas de los ciudadanos cobren vida. Solo los magos, que ejercen de guardianes del territorio, pueden interponerse entre las personas y sus peores sueños. Clementine Madigan está lista para asumir el cargo de guardiana de su pequeño pueblo, pero cuando dos magos llegan para desafiarla, se ve envuelta en un...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Magdalena does not panic when she learns that her younger sister has disappeared. A free-spirit, Jadranka has always been prone to mysterious absences. But when weeks pass with no word, Magdalena leaves the isolated Croatian island where their family has always lived and sets off to New York to find her sister. Her search begins to unspool the dark history of their family, reaching back three generations to a country torn by war." --Amazon.
1248) There will be lies
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
454 pages
Description
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
1249) The Dark Days pact
Author
Series
Lady Helen novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
490 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"In 1812, Lady Helen, taking refuge for the summer in Brighton, learns the Dark Days Club has a secret mission for her"--
1250) Keepers of the labyrinth
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lil Bennett goes to Crete to find answers about the circumstances of her mother's death, and there finds herself entangled in an adventure of mythical proportions that leads her and her friends through the very labyrinth in which the real Minotaur was imprisoned"--
1251) The family plot: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has a lot to learn when it comes to the real world. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she spent the last several years living on her own, but unable to move beyond her past-especially the disappearance of her twin brother Andy when they were sixteen. With her father's death, Dahlia returns to the house she has avoided for years. But the rest...
1252) The lost library
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Leaving New York for the heat, humidity and anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah arrives in Thailand with the sole desire to lose herself, a stranger in a strange land. Yet she also leaves behind a complicated past, and a deception she holds close to her chest. Taking up a lease at a high-end apartment complex called The Kingdom, she finds herself drawn into the close-knit social circle of three very different, but equally mysterious, ex-pat women: Ximena,...
1254) Set me free
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Three years after being kidnapped 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...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller, about Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileaks, the controversial website that facilitated the largest security breach in the U.S. history. Paralleling Assange's rise and fall with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the troubled young soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, and multi-layered expose about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth.
1256) The forgotten room
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
1257) Redemption Prep
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told in multiple voices, teens at a preparatory school for the exceptional in the forests of Utah uncover a larger mystery after a student disappears.
1258) Not dead enough
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...
1259) El regreso
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Trevor Benson no tuvo intenciones de volver a New Bern, Carolina del Norte. Pero una terrible explo�sin a las fueras del hospital en el que trabajaba como cirujano, le obliga a volver a casa desde Afgani�stn con graves heridas. La destartalada cabąa que h�aba heredado de su abuelo parece el lugar ideal para recuperarse. Trevor, que cuida las amadas colmenas de abejas de su abuelo, no e�st preparado para enamorarse de alguien del pueblo....
1260) The Blackwoods
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
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