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6481) A Merciful Silence
Author
Series
Mercy Kilpatrick volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
For FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick, returning to rural Oregon has meant coming to terms with her roots. Raised as a prepper, Mercy is now relying on her survivalist instincts to defend her town from the people the law can't reach. But this time, an investigation calling up a dark past for her and police chief Truman Daly may be hitting too close to home. A rainstorm has uncovered the remains of five people, a reprise of the distinctive slaughter of two...
6482) El regreso
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Trevor Benson no tuvo intenciones de volver a New Bern, Carolina del Norte. Pero una terrible explos̤in a las fueras del hospital en el que trabajaba como cirujano, le obliga a volver a casa desde Afganis̀tn con graves heridas. La destartalada cabąa que ha̕ba heredado de su abuelo parece el lugar ideal para recuperarse. Trevor, que cuida las amadas colmenas de abejas de su abuelo, no es̀t preparado para enamorarse de alguien del pueblo. Sin...
6483) All out
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Valerie rushes home to Orchard Valley, Oregon, when her father, David, suffers a heart attack. She and her two younger sisters, Stephanie and Norah, are gathering at his side, praying he'll live, fearing he'll die.. At a time like this, falling in love is the last thing on Valerie's mind. And with Dr. Colby Winston, of all people! He's David's heart surgeon, a renowned specialist who enjoys small-town living, while Valerie is a high-powered businesswoman...
6485) Black dawn
Author
Series
Night world volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
When sixteen-year-old Maggie's brother disappears, she is determined to find him, never suspecting that the trail will lead her into the Night World, which is ruled by the young vampire prince Delos, who falls in love with Maggie.
Author
Series
If only novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Holly Mathews lives at a retirement home for the super wealthy that her mother manages on expensive Mercer Island, but when she meets Malik Buchannan, grandson of one of the residents, she allows him to think that she just visiting, so he will accept her as belonging to his A-list world--it is just supposed to be a summer fling, but soon she finds herself falling in love.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded capture in the countryside...
6488) My kind of you
Author
Series
Trillium Bay novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Emily Callaghan is back in her quaint northern Michigan hometown of Trillium Bay: divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her twelve-year-old. The arrangement is that Emily, a house flipper, will renovate one of her grandmother's rental properties in exchange for a much-needed loan. But her dad is more distant than ever; her younger sister is dating a much older man, the cottage remodel grows increasingly daunting... and then there's out-of-towner...
6489) The Baxters
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Standalone novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A terrible storm builds in the morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs. It's supposed to be a happy day, but Elizabeth can't shake a growing sense of dread. Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Appears on list
Description
The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita. Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing took his mother from him. Every year, Brady visits the site on the anniversary to remember her. A decade ago he met Jenna Phillips, whose parents were also killed in the attack. Every year when he returns, he leaves a note for Jenna. Ashley Baxter Blake and her sister Kari Ryan take a spring break trip with their families that includes a visit to the site to see the memorial's famous Survivor...
Author
Series
Conspiracy of us trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Heiress to the powerful secret society known as the Circle, Avery West crosses continents following a trail of clues she hopes will lead to Alexander the Great's Tomb--and the earth shattering secret it holds--before it's too late"--
6494) Immortal pleasures
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"An ancient Aztec vampire roams the modern world in search of vengeance and love in this seductive dark fantasy"--
Hundreds of years ago, she was known as La Malinche: a Nahua woman who translated for the conquistador Corťs. In the centuries since, her name has gone down in infamy as a traitor. But no one ever found out what happened to La Malinche after Corťs destroyed her people. In the ashes of the empire, she was reborn as Malinalli, an immortal...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuké--the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic...
Author
Series
Children of the gods volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017], ℗2017
Description
Syssi's paranormal foresight lands her a job at Dr. Amanda Dokani's neuroscience lab, but it fails to predict the thrilling yet terrifying turn her life will take. Syssi has no clue that her boss is an immortal who'll drag her into a secret, millennia-old battle over humanity's future. Nor does she realize that the professor's imposing brother is the mysterious stranger who's been starring in her dreams. Since the dawn of human civilization, two...
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Mare and her Scarlet Guard had nearly triumphed over the oppressive Silvers and the wicked King Maven when Cal's betrayal sent Mare reeling. Now with the Scarlet Guard at her back, Mare is determined to destroy the Silver world once and for all--starting with Maven.
6499) A Pirate's Wife for Me
Author
Series
Governess brides volume 11
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Caitlin MacLeod of Scotland is proud to announce her graduation from The Distinguished Academy of Governesses. She specializes in the womanly arts of housekeeping, picking locks, and overthrowing ruthless dictators, and is looking for a position wherein she can utilize these skills. No dashing, dastardly pirates or faithless, former lovers need seek her services. Ship's captain (and prince in disguise) Taran Tamson is by coincidence in need of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"When Maddie West discovers that she was adopted as an embryo and may have a sister, she feels betrayed, angry, and confused. Maddie moves away, leaving her job, fiancé, and family. Dawson Gage is mourning the death of his best friend, London Quinn. Then London's mother reveals she and her husband donated a frozen embryo decades ago, meaning that London might have a sibling. When Dawson finds Maddie and takes her to the Quinns, they welcome her into...