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Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom -- covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her -- she knows she'll...
22) Broken glass
Author
Series
The mirror sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, comes book two of the haunting saga of identical twin sisters tortured by their perfectionist mother--until one of them snaps. Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald are twin sisters who have been forced to be identical in every way by their domineering mother. She insists they wear the same clothes, eat the same food, get the same grades,...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
25) Seraphina
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
26) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world - Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
489 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned and drugged in a restricted island psychiatric facility for government intelligence employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover why he was placed there.
30) Dead ringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Battling her sister in a heated dispute at the same time her law firm runs into financial trouble, attorney Bennie Rosato takes on a potentially lucrative class action suit and finds unexpected assistance from a mysterious stranger.
31) Identity
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party--attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd...
32) I'm not Millie!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Someone is causing a lot of trouble during and after supper, but Millie is certainly not the guilty one.
Author
Series
Serafina volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
Author
Series
Serafina volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author comes The Beautiful Pretender! After inheriting his title from his brother, the margrave has two weeks to find a noble bride. What will happen when he learns he has fallen for a lovely servant girl in disguise? The Margrave of Thornbeck has to find a bride, fast. He invites ten noble born ladies who meet the king's approval to be his guests at Thornbeck Castle for two weeks, a time to test these ladies and reveal...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman.
38) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of two girls collide.
39) Light in shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Suspecting that a new client is hiding a dark secret, home decorator Zoe Luce enlists the help of investigator Ethan Truax, with whom she falls in love despite the dark secrets of her past that could destroy their budding romance.