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82) The sky above us
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating timelines and points of view, three boys prepare and execute a bold plan that results in a deadly plane crash, and in the aftermath, three girls--a twin sister, a best friend, and an ex-girlfriend--try to piece together the truth about the boys they loved and thought they knew.
Gerard, Texas. The morning after their senior year beach party, Izzy, Cass, Janie and their classmates watch in shock as a plane crashes into the water...
83) Anthem: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 429 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something awry and feels compelled to dig deeper. He soon discovers that she was the victim of a callous con-man who preys on vulnerable women, and whose deception plunged...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
Author
Publisher
L. Brown and Sons
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xii, 248 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In late December of 1957, dairy farmer Orville Gibson had a dispute with his hired hand, Eri Martin, because he had spilled some milk. After allegedly beating Martin because of the spill, Gibson receives a threatening telephone call a few days later warning him to not come into the village of Newbury, Vermont, due to the sympathy for Martin and against Gibson. On December 31, 1957, Gibson leaves his house for his barn chores and is not seen alive...
87) Do no harm
Author
Series
Dr Lucas Page novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes. Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent-emphasis on "ex." Severely wounded after being caught in an explosion, Page left the FBI...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Brynn is obsessed with death, and her severe anxiety leaves her feeling isolated, but when her parents decide she is going to spend the summer on her father's houseboat, she meets--and starts crushing on--sultry and confident Skylar, who is hiding a dark secret.
Fifteen-year-old Brynn can't stop thinking about death. Her intrusive thoughts and severe anxiety leave her feeling helpless--and hopeless. So after her mom interprets one...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Seoul, South Korea, Min, devastated by the suicide of his girlfriend, throws himself into finding out why she wanted to die, and the more he learns about her, the more he realizes he never really knew her at all.
90) Steal
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imagine everyone’s surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart’s Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours later and still no one has seen him.
Release the hounds. A massive search ensues. But when Carter’s sailboat rolls in with the tide without him or anyone else on it, the worst seems to be confirmed. He really did it . . . Or did he?
The one person convinced he’s still...
91) List of ten
Author
Publisher
Sterling Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A suicidal teen fighting the symptoms of Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder creates a bucket list of ten goals to achieve by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, before a newcomer with her own troubled history unknowingly offers him more hopeful perspectives.
92) After you'd gone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A solitary London girl decides to go home to Scotland, but, in a public toilet, she witnesses something so shocking that she cannot process it. Immediately returning to London, she walks in front of a car and winds up in a coma--and as she lies there, the story of her past and the secrets of her family unfold.
Author
Series
Jo Beckett series volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
95) Motherthing
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's...
96) Liar's bench
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1972, on Mudas Summers' seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella's no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did it herself. Muddy is determined to find out for sure either way, especially once she finds strange papers hidden amongst her mama's possessions. But Peckinpaw keeps its secrets buried deep. Muddy's...
98) A likeable woman
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"She's back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother's death hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind...even if it kills her... After her troublemaker mother's mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy's vow renewal party. Though she is reluctant to go, there are things calling her back . . ....
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