Alyssa Bresnahan
Author
Language
English
Description
Susie Salmon is speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground. There are counsellors to help newcomers adjust, and friends to room with. Everything she wants appears as soon as she thinks of it except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved. From heaven, Susie watches her happy suburban family implode after her death, as they try to come to terms with their grief. Over the years, her friends and siblings...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Towner Whitney, a dazed young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, has survived numerous traumas and returned to her hometown of Salem, Mass., to recover. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived when her beloved great-aunt Eva drowns under circumstances suggesting foul play. Towner's suspicions are taken with a grain of salt given her history of hallucinatory visions and self-harm. The mystery enmeshes local cop...
Author
Series
Naomi Cottle novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three years ago Madison Culver went missing at the age of five while looking for a Christmas tree with her family. Private investigator Naomi Cottle continues the investigation and believes that Madison's disappearance can only be the result of an abduction. Naomi's personal journey from foster child to adulthood parallels her search for Madison, and as her fears and sources of determination come to light, the narrative also dips into Madison's mind,...
6) Find me
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Route 66, as word travels that children's grave sites are being discovered along the road, the parents of missing children form a silent caravan. They are being shepherded by NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory, who seeks a killer like none she has ever known-and a child unlike the others: herself.
7) Weetzie Bat
Author
Series
Weetzie Bat volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends, Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy and her friends, college educated women who pursued satisfying careers before taking time off for marriage and children, are forced at the age of forty to reassess the choices they have made after Amy befriends a charismatic and successful working mother of three who seems to really have it all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli investigate when a murderer begins placing his victims in the Crispin Museum and a young archaeologist goes missing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1954
Physical Desc
382 p. illus., ports. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Story of My Life," first appeared in installments in "Ladies' Home Journal" in 1902. This book is truly one of the great American autobiographies: an inspiring story of a courageous individual who overcame tremendous odds. Keller writes about many things: her childhood in Alabama; her relationship with her beloved teacher, Anne Sullivan; her attendance at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City; and meeting such eminent figures...
11) The 49th mystic
Author
Series
Beyond the circle volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
15 sound discs (17 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah, a blind girl named Rachelle Matthews is about to find out just how wrong. When a procedure meant to restore Rachelle's sight goes awry, she begins to dream of another world so real that she wonders if...
12) Strange angels
Author
Series
Strange angels volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.
13) Lyddie
Author
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
14) Wicked lovely
Author
Series
Wicked lovely (Manga) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see fairies, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle by Keenan, the terrifying but alluring Summer King, who determines that she must become his queen and save summer from perishing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a short road trip turns into a crazy adventure, Ira and Maggie Moran have a chance to review their lives, renew their love, and reaffirm a marriage that has room enough for realists and dreamers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the highly praised author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted comes The Butterfly Girl, a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi...
17) Mercy
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron. aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie- seduced by the idea...
18) With child
Author
Series
Kate Martinelli mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"THE THIRD BOOK IN THE KATE MARTINELLI MYSTERY SERIES
In Laurie R. King's With Child, adrift in mist-shrouded San Francisco mornings and alcohol-fogged nights, homicide detective Kate Martinelli can't escape the void left by her departed lover, who has gone off to rethink their relationship. But when twelve-year-old Jules Cameron comes to Kate for a professional consultation, Kate's not sure she's that desperate for distraction.
Jules is worried...
Author
Series
Rarities Unlimited volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
385 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an art buyer decides to put her grandfatherś impressionist works painted in the 20ś on sale, she discovers that the paintings are messages from murder victims and someone wants to keep the voices from being heard.
20) To play the fool
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous homeless man is murdered amidst his band of fellow homeless in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Inspector Kate Martinelli and her partner, Al Hawkin, uncover a chief suspect in the eccentric Brother Erasmus.