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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote English countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start, away from the bustle of London and the scene of a violent assault she is desperate to forget. But despite the distractions of her new life and the demands of single motherhood, her nerves continue to jangle. To make matters worse, during class a vicious debate about violence against women inflames the tensions and mounting rivalries...
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English
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"In the moonlight, a shovelfuls of earth fall on a wooden crate at the bottom of a deep pit. Soon the hole will be filled and covered over with leaves, erasing all trace of the victim below, waking to the horror of being buried alive... Newly divorced Gaby Duran isn't really expecting to find her soul mate on a dating site like InTune. She just needs a distraction from pining over her ex-husband, Ben, and the happy marriage they once had. And she's...
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Series
Language
English
Description
A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dream-like, open-ended tales by the father of Japanese modernist literature offer thought-provoking reflections on fear, death, and loneliness. Their settings range from the Meiji period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the era in which...
7) False memory
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychological suspense story of the human mind's capacity to torment and destroy itself.
Author
Series
Agora virus volume 1
Publisher
Direct Response Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
9) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages
Language
English
Description
"There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter's pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence. But then the rumors begin--people in town whisper that Walter's grandson heard a voice that commanded him to kill. And that the voice belongs to a most peculiar creature: Walter's pig, Pearl. Walter is not sure what to believe. He knows that he's always been afraid of the strangely...
10) Wanderers
Author
Series
Wanderers volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 782 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is...
11) Llévame a casa
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Es sábado, poco después de las diez de la noche, y Jules está pendiente del teléfono. Es voluntario en un servicio telefónico de acompañamiento para mujeres que vuelven solas a casa por la noche. Nunca ha vivido una situación en la que la persona al otro lado de la línea estuviera realmente en peligro, hasta la llamada aterrorizada de Klara. La joven está convencida de que un hombre la sigue, alguien a quien conoce y que ha dibujado con...
12) Wonderland
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
One mother's love may be all that stands between her family, an enigmatic presence--and madness. After years of city life, Orla and Shaw Bennett are ready for the quiet of New York's Adirondack mountains--or at least, they think they are. Settling into the perfect farmhouse with their two children, they are both charmed and unsettled by the expanse of their land, the privacy of their individual bedrooms, and the isolation of life a mile from any neighbor....
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
** Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. ** The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone...
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English
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"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the 'heart-tugging and emotional' (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
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