Julia Whelan
21) The ultimatum
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Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 1
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English
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Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you willBianca St. Ives is the best in the business.Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed...
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Clever, cunning and highly skilled--there's only one Bianca St. Ives and don't you dare forget it. Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does--the way her father trained her to--hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed, and she's...
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Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
English
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Struggling with PTSD a year after escaping a serial killer, television reporter Dana Nolan uses her investigative skills to reclaim the missing pieces of her life and take another look at the case of her best friend's disappearance after high school graduation.
24) The shadow hour
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Girl at midnight volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Everything in Echo's life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to bring peace. The firebird has come into the world, but it has not come alone. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and Echo can feel a great and terrible darkness rising in the distance. Cosmic forces threaten to tear the world apart.
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2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
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English
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On an ordinary day, at an air show like that in any small town across the country, a plane crashes into a crowd of spectators. After the dust clears, a thirteen-year-old girl named Ava is found huddled beneath a pocket of rubble with her best friend, Wash. He is injured and bleeding, and when Ava places her hands over him, his wounds disappear.
"On the heels of his critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling debut novel, The Returned, Jason...
27) Magisterium
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Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Glenn Morgan has lived next to the Rift her entire life and has no idea what is on the other side of it. Glenn's only friend, Kevin, insists the fence holds back a world of monsters and witchcraft, but magic isn't for Glenn. She has enough problems with reality: Her mother disappeared when she was six, and soon after, she lost her scientist father to his all-consuming work on his mysterious Project. But the other side of the Rift...
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Conspiracy of us trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Avery West learns her family is part of a powerful and dangerous secret society, and that her own life is in danger, she must follow a trail of clues across Europe.
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Series
Belles volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
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Cousins Isabelle and Mirabelle lead very different lives until Isabelle, who grew up in a poor neighborhood, is whisked away from home to live with the well-to-do Mirabelle and her family. As Izzie and Mira try to navigate their new lives, family secrets are dug up and the girls learn what friends and family truly mean.
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"Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name, the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is as terrifyingly realistic and resonant as the original"--
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle, designated The Andromeda Strain, killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy....
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Princess in Black volume 1
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Princess in Black takes a vacation: After battling monsters all night, a sleepy Princess in Black decides that she needs a vacation. After all, the Goat Avenger, a new hero who looks oddly familiar, has offered to protect the goats while she takes a much needed break. The very next day Princess Magnolia rides her bicycle to the seaside, where the air is salty, the sun is shiny, and the sea is as blue as monster fur. But just as Princess Magnolia...
33) Book lovers
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English
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"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are...
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English
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Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning another vacation together.
"What happens when best friends with nothing in common come together, fall apart, and fall in love? The Vacationers meets When Harry Met Sally..., from the author of Beach Read When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious,...
35) Beach read
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English
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"A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
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"Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs. At the age of twenty-nine, she is starting to see crow's feet, and yet, she still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles to regroup. She takes up residence in her best friend...
38) Funny story
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"Named a Most Anticipated book of 2024 by TIME and#x2219; The New York Times and#x2219; Goodreads and#x2219; Entertainment Weekly and#x2219; Today.com and#x2219; Paste and#x2219; SheReads and#x2219; BookPage and#x2219; Woman's World and#x2219; The Nerd Daily and more! A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Daphne always loved the way her fiancé...
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Emma and Jesse, high school sweethearts, marry and build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents in Massachusetts. They travel the world, live life to the fullest, and seize every opportunity for adventure. On their first anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter when it goes missing over the Pacific ocean. Just like that, he is gone forever. Emma quits her job and moves back to Massachusetts in an effort to put her life...
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When film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is invited back to the New Hampshire boarding school she attended as a teenager, she finds herself drawn to investigate the murder of a classmate in 1995.
"Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by TIME, NPR, USA Today, Elle, Newsweek, Salon, Bustle, AARP, The Millions, Good Housekeeping, and more “Part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age...[iI Have Some Questions for You is] a fully immersive,...