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141) Deadfall
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When they encounter a dying deer in the middle of a remote mountain road with fresh tire tracks swerving down into a ravine, twin brothers Ty and Cory Bic know they have to help. Reaching the wrecked car, the vehicle appears empty, with signs that the driver escaped. They hear a sound coming from the trunk, and discover something that puts them in the crosshairs of something darker and more sinister than their wildest nightmares. -- adapted from jacket....
142) Duels & deception
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 21 cm
Description
1800's London. Lydia Whitfield plans to run the family estate until she marries the man of her late father's choosing, spending the rest of her days as a devoted wife. Law clerk Robert Newton is tasked with drawing up the marriage contracts. Then Lydia is kidnapped, and Robert along with her. Someone is after her fortune and won't hesitate to destroy her reputation to get it. As the two strive to keep her family's name unsullied and expose the one...
143) Show me a sign
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Series
Show me a sign volume 1
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Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Unexceptional children are the country's only hope in this kickoff to a smart, funny spy adventure series..Are you average? Normal? Forgettable? If so, the League of Unexceptional Children is for you! This first book in a hilarious new adventure series is for anyone who's struggled to be noticed in a sea of above-average overachievers. What is the League of Unexceptional Children? I'm glad you asked. You didn't ask? Well, you would have eventually,...
145) Caraval
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Series
Caraval volume 1
Description
"Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their ruthless father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the legendary, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor who she has just met, Tella whisks...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Description
Having returned from Qaf as heroes, Hamza wants one more epic quest before heading back to school. While exploring an abandoned castle, the siblings must face the evil dev Ahriman which is out for revenge and to claim an ancient ring of power, so takes Hamza hostage.
Amira and Hamza have returned from Qaf, the magical Jinn world, as triumphant heroes--and life has been pleasantly quiet. Too quiet. Hamza is determined to have one last monumental,...
147) Some fine day
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hr. 53 min.) ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
"A generation ago, continent-sized storms called hypercanes caused the Earth to flood. The survivors were forced to retreat deep underground and build a new society. This is the story that sixteen-year-old Jansin Nordqvist has heard all of her life. Jansin grew up in a civiliation far below the Earth's surface. She's spent the last eight years in military intelligence training. So when her parents surprise her with a coveted yet treacherous trip...
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Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 4
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Description
Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back and so is his brilliant and dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi. At the start of the story, Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn't know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She's left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge...
149) Middleworld
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Series
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hr., 4 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the ancient city of Itzamna, Lord Six-Rabbit wakes up screaming. A great warrior king of the mighty Maya, he has dreamed he was a lowly, flea-bitten monkey. How could this be? Was this some sorcery sent by his half-brother, Tzelok, the evil priest? 1200 years later, in Boston, Massachusetts, 14-year-old Max Murphy is looking forward to a family vacation. But his parents, both archaeologists and Maya experts, announce a change in plan. They must...
150) The dark island
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
114 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
In this thrilling sixth installment of Scott Chantler's popular Three Thieves graphic novel series, the separate adventures of twins Dessa and Jared play out simultaneously and seem poised to intersect as the book ends. Dessa, along with Topper and Fisk, has managed a daring landing onto the flying island of Astaroth, where she hopes to find her long-lost brother. Instead, they discover a bizarre world where three children are being held by a mysterious...
151) The dragon's dookie
Author
Series
Fart quest volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
"High in the Frostflung Mountains lies the lair of a fearsome dragon named Glacierbane. Pan, Moxie, Fart, and TickTock must venture there and fish a dragon-digested object from deep within a pile of dragon doo. But Pan isn't having it. She's not sure why, but she doesn't trust Kevin. But when she learns of a kidnapped prince that needs rescuing from Glacierbane, suddenly this quest seems a whole lot more heroic"--
152) Thief's cunning
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Description
All her life, Allegra, niece of the infamous assassin Lea Saldana, has had to keep her identity hidden. She and her family are constantly watching their backs for an attack from the Da Vias, a rival family whose thirst for retaliation has lasted for almost two decades. But what really happened the night Lea made the Da Vias pay for murdering her family? Allegra wants to know--just like she wants to know her parents' identity, another secret Lea and...
153) Endgames
Author
Series
NewsPrints volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
205 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Blue arrives in the capital city of Altalus, where she is determined to find her friend Crow, the boy who was created to be a flying war machine, and Jack, the engineer who built him. But soon she is inadvertently kidnapped by Snow and Red, twins from the enemy side of their ten-year war. They set off on a dangerous adventure that brings them to the front lines of the war, and eventually realize that they must work together to help end it. But with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
181 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.
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