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62) Hokuloa Road
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawai'i, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island's idyllic reputation: It has long been a place where people vanish without a trace. When a young woman named Jessie from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined...
63) We the animals
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce...
64) The heist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she's cared about is Nicolas Fox, an international crook she wants in more...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
""FOR GOD'S SAKE, TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENED!" "VENGEANCE. VENGEANCE IS WHAT'S HAPPENED." It begins as a manhunt for Grace Ozmian, the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire. At first, the NYPD assumes Grace, beautiful, reckless, and a regular feature of the local tabloids, has simply sped off on another wild adventure. But the case becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in...
66) The gunslinger
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Over three decades ago, Stephen King introduced readers to the extraordinarily compelling and mysterious Roland Deschain. Roland is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, a landscape strewn with the wreckage of civility, he tracks the man in black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with a boy from New York named Jake. Both fiercely realistic and eerily dreamlike,...
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
"I promised my mother I would never come to Bato-Ko...and yet here I am. Narra Jal is one of the cursed, cast aside her whole life, considered unlucky. But with her mother's life on the line, she will return to the city where she was born to face the trials: a grueling, bloodthirsty series of challenges designed to weed out the weak, the greedy, and the foolish. Trials to select the next ruler of Tigang. Narra has nothing. No weapons. No training....
Author
Series
Alphaville volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
Renny Landry is a wolf on the run. Pursued by a shapeshifting stalker and his slobbering pack of killer coyotes, she is forced to flee her job as a librarian to find sanctuary in the wooded hills of Alpha, Washington. A well-secluded safe space for troubled shifters, Alpha is Renny's last hope. But the first person she meets there is a gorgeous alpha male with fiery eyes, fierce tattoos, and one ferocious appetite--for her. Mick Fischer thought he...
Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Populated with lovers who leave and return, with ghosts of the Holocaust and messages from the dead, Courtney Sender’s debut collection speaks in a singular new voice about the longings and loneliness of contemporary love. The world of these fourteen interlocking stories is fiercely real but suffused with magic and myth, dark wit, and distinct humor. Here, ancient loss works its way deep into the psyche of modern characters, stirring their unrelenting...
71) Immortals
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this epic tale of vengeance and destiny, power-mad King Hyperion threatens to destroy all of humanity on his maniacal quest to obtain the ultimate weapon - the legendary Epirus Bow that gives the power to unleash war on both Heaven and Earth. But Theseus, a heroic young villager chosen by the gods, rises up to stop Hyperion's brutal rampage. With supernatural help from the beautiful oracle Phaedra, Theseus embraces his destiny and leads a fierce...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Wonderland
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Rhyming text celebrates the unique, supportive, and loving relationship between parent and child while encouraging individuality"--
"Encourage your little dinosaur to let out their proudest roar in this touching picture book for kids! Celebrate your favorite little dino and what makes them fiercely one-of-a-kind in this inspiring book about unconditional love. Filled with vibrant art of dinosaurs like Triceratops, T. rex, Stegosaurus, and more,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art--cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls). David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he has overcommitted to art. At antipodes since first meeting twenty-five years ago, they headed to a cabin in the Cascade Mountains and threw down....
75) I kissed Alice
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rhodes and Iliana couldn't be more different, but that's not why they hate each other. Rhodes, a gifted artist, has always excelled at Alabama's Conservatory of the Arts (until she's hit with a secret bout of creator's block), while Iliana, a transfer student, tries to outshine everyone with her intense, competitive work ethic. Since only one of them can get the coveted Capstone scholarship, the competition between them is fierce. They both escape...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The pathos of Beautiful Ruins meets the hilarity of Crazy Rich Asians in this comedic and tender novel. Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle,...
Author
Publisher
Fence Free Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Desperate father Ian McKinley moves his increasingly rebellious teenage son out of New York City to Keeling Creek, a small town in Virginia where life could not be more different from what either of them is used to. Ian's only goal is to keep his son out of trouble. But the locals are intent on fixing him up with Colby Williams, the beautiful local vet with a heart for animals and a fierce love for a teenage daughter she is also struggling to raise....
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington's poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood--not necessarily in that order. It's a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too much social media, and occasional inner monologues where timeless debates are resolved such as Pro/Con: Caving to PTO Bake Sale Pressure ("PRO: Skim the crappiest brownies for myself. CON: They're really crappy."). With accessibility and wit, she captures the emotions...
80) Intouchables
Publisher
Columbia, [2012]
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
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Description
"After a paragliding accident, Philippe, a rich aristocrat, is confined to his home. He employs Driss as home help. Driss is a young guy from the projects recently out of prison - in short, the person the least adapted for the job. Vivaldi and Earth, Wind and Fire, fine language and slang, suits and jogging outfits come together and a clash is inevitable. Two worlds collide and win each other over to give birth to a friendship as crazy, funny, and...
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