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81) Set me free
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
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Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides after fourteen years of silence to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. "It's the least I can do," he says. Jeannie details her friendship with Mark before and after...
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English
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"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Adjusting to modern day life is one thing. Fighting the female assassin Silencer is another. Worse, one of Judo Girl's (Diana Moore) most dangerous adversaries from the 1960s resurfaces to complicate her life, Lincoln Stanley, aka Hep Cat. Has he really reformed, as he claims, or is he back to his old tricks? Check out this exclusive, never-before-seen, Judo Girl story!
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Judo Girl knows Lincoln (a.k.a. Hep Cat) is somehow behind her recent blackouts and she storms his Malibu mansion in search of the truth, but Lincoln anticipates her coming and prepares for their final confrontation. Not only does Judo Girl discover the final fate of the assassin Silencer, she will bring Lincoln to justice- even if it means sacrificing her secret identity.
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Former bad guy Lincoln Stanley, aka Hep Cat, wants to take up where he left off with Judo Girl back in the swinging 60s, but Diana begins to have second thoughts about his motives and sexy assassin Silencer's new modus operandi seems to be all over the map. What is she up to, and why?
87) Judo Girl Vol #2
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Bluewater presents the new Judo Girl graphic novel, featuring a brand new adventure as well as never before seen images. Adjusting to life in the far-flung present is one thing, fighting the female assassin Silencer is another. Worse, one of Diana's most dangerous adversaries from the 1960s resurfaces to complicate her life, Lincoln Stanley, aka Hepcat. Has he really reformed, as he claims, or is he back to his old tricks?
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The star of the sold out mini-series is back! Adjusting to life in the far-flung present is one thing, fighting the female assassin Silencer is another. Worse, one of Diana's most dangerous adversaries from the 1960s resurfaces to complicate her life, Lincoln Stanley, aka Hepcat. Has he really reformed, as he claims, or is he back to his old tricks?
89) Phantom limbs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Otis and Meg were inseparable until her family abruptly moved away after the terrible accident that left Otis’s little brother dead and both of their families changed forever. Since then, it’s been three years of radio silence, during which time Otis has become the unlikely protégé of eighteen-year-old Dara—part drill sergeant, part friend—who’s hell-bent on transforming Otis into the Olympic swimmer she can no longer be. But when Otis...
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"The key to staying alive lies buried in forgotten memories Ten years ago, forensic artist Jacy Urban escaped her abductor with no memory of that night. Now two teenage girls are missing, and all signs indicate that the same kidnapper is back on the hunt. When Jacy is attacked, it's clear she's the assailant's next target. Only Detective Cash Rawson is there to rescue her--again. Can Cash help Jacy recover her memories before she's silenced for good?"--...
92) Destined
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Series
House of Night. Original series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
"Zoey is finally home where she belongs, safe with her Guardian Warrior, Stark, by her side, and preparing to face off against Neferet - which would be a whole lot easier if the High Counsel saw the ex-High Priestess for what she really is. Kalona has released his hold on Rephaim, and, through Nyx's gift of a human form, Rephaim and Stevie Rae are finally able to be together - if he can truly walk the path of the Goddess and stay free of his father's...
93) Murder off stage
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"New York, 1926. It's not like Jessie Beckett goes around looking for murders to solve, but the vaudeville star turned movie script girl has a natural talent for it. After a lifetime on stage, she's sensitive to details that other people miss. So when leading theater star Allen Crenshaw is shot live on stage during a performance of hit Broadway show Rules of Engagement - a horrified Jessie watching from the second row - she knows she has to act fast...
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"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the...
95) Farewell, ghosts
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"Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Milan and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things--to decide what to keep andwhat to throw away. Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to return....
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English
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"A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that's killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform,...
97) Scream
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, and Marley Shelton.
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American poets continuum volume 115
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English
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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in the West Indies, Simpson immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. He studied at Columbia University, then served the US Army in active duty in Europe during World War II. After the war he continued his studies at Columbia and at the University of Paris. While living in France, he published his first book of...
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For Kayden, suffering in silence was the only way to survive. If he was lucky he could keep his head down, do as he was told and make it through the day. But one night it seemed like his luck and his life might finally end until an angel named Callie appeared just in time to rescue him. Callie has never believed in luck. Not since her twelfth birthday when everything was taken from her. After the worst was over she locked up her feelings and vowed...
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"Orphaned during the Second World War, Aelish and Isabel McGuire--known as the twins of Belfast--are given over to the austere care of the Sisters of Bethlehem. Though they are each all the other has, the girls are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up. Rebellious Isabel turns her back on the church and Ireland, traveling to Newfoundland where she pursues a perilous yet independent life. Devout Aelish chooses to remain in Northern Ireland...