Lisa Flanagan
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time"--
42) Fair is the rose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
On the run from the law for a crime she didn't commit, a woman must trust her life to a gunslinger who is not what he seems in award-winning author Meagan McKinney's sensual and suspenseful historical romance With her face on Wanted posters from New York to Missouri, Christal Van Alen dons a disguise, determined to clear her name by bringing the real killer to justice. But when outlaws ambush her wagon train, her fate falls into the hands of the most...
43) Mez's Magic
Author
Series
Lost rainforest volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Mez, a panther who discovers her magical powers after an eclipse, must unite the other animals to save Caldera from an evil force.
44) Bluff
Author
Pub. Date
c2019.
Description
"One-time socialite Maud Warner polishes up the rags of her once glittering existence and bluffs her way into a signature New York restaurant on a sunny October day. When she walks out again, a man will have been shot. Maud has grown accustomed to being underestimated and invisible, and she uses her ability to fly under the radar as she pursues celebrity accountant Burt Sklar, the man she believes stole her mother's fortune and left her family in...
45) Rosetown
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.
46) Last things
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
48) The last laugh
Author
Series
Initial insult volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Tress Montor murdered Felicity Turnado--but she might not have to live with the guilt for long. With an infected arm held together by duct tape, the panther who clawed her open on the loose, and the whole town on the hunt for the lost homecoming queen, the odds are stacked against Tress. As her mind slides deeper into delirium, Tress is haunted by the growing sound of Felicity's heartbeat pulsing from the "best friend" charm around her fevered neck....
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
It's 1999, and freshly minted detective Jay Swan arrives in a dusty Outback town. Although he's the new copper on the beat, he grew up nearby, and his estranged family still lives here as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary. Before Jay can even report for duty, he finds himself in the middle of an armed holdup, one of a series being perpetrated by a masked gang. The heists seem to be random: a cattle truck is stolen, a popular pub...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect"--
Tired of covering the grating dysfunction of Washington and the...
51) Near the bone
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducing horror novel from the national bestselling author Christina Henry. Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's something in the woods that wasn't there...
53) Go, went, gone
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"It’s July 1921, "flickers" are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry. At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From an award-winning science journalist, a lively, informative, and humorous deep dive into the future of the toilet—from creative uses for harvested “biosolids,” to the bold engineers dedicated to bringing safe sanitation to the billions of people worldwide living without." --
57) Love Bites
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Etienne Argeneau's three hundred years of bachelorhood are at an end, or so it would seem. He can only turn one human in his lifetime, and most of his fellow vampires have created life mates. Enter Rachel Garrett, the beautiful coroner who saved his life. Now, to save hers, he will have to make her immortal.
Author
Series
Emerald circus volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Where is Wendy? Leading a labor strike against the Lost Boys, of course. A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility and sails away in a starship made of light. Alices wicked nemesis has jaws and claws but really needs a sense of humor. In Jane Yolens first full...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Two years ago, Olivia Martindale left behind her Montana hometown and her husband, Jace, certain it was the best decision for both of them. Back temporarily to protect her almost-adopted daughters from their biological mother, she discovers an old, handwritten cookbook in the attic. Its pages are stained and torn, their edges scorched by flame. Some have been smeared by water...or tears. The recipes are written in different hands and in different...
Author
Series
Max and the Midknights volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Max didn't expect knight school to be so tough. Luckily, she has her best friends, the Midknights, at her side. But when Byjovia is under attack, the Midknights will have to face beastly creatures, powerful spells, and their greatest foe yet...themselves?