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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the massacre's wake, this sleepy suburban neighborhood declares its saints, brands its demons, and moves on. But for a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day, life remains...
22) After
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.
23) Before: a novel
Author
Series
Heaven's door volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the novel BEFORE, writer J. Kilburn brings readers a light-hearted and whimsical coming of age story that follows the adventures and misadventures of Just Regular Kids as they grow up in a pastoral and peaceful New England college town. Buckle your seatbelts - all may not be as it seems. Events in a far-away criminal underworld lurk in the background as these teenagers take their first steps into adulthood. Adventurous readers will discover
...Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly pen pal assignment. With each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that eventually grows into love. But with homophobia, bullying, and devastating family secrets, Jonathan and Kurl struggle to overcome their conflicts and hold onto their relationship, and each other.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson, a member of an abolitionist family in 1864, heads south after the murder of a slave in his care in search of his brother, a Union doctor who has gone missing in the midst of the Civil War, pursued by a group of escaped convicts who want the mysterious stone that has fallen into Morgan's hands.
Author
Series
Call me by your name novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Elio, anticipating a boring summer at his parents' home on the Italian coast, finds himself powerfully attracted to Oliver, a handsome young American who has come to assist Elio's father for the summer, and the two young men soon fall into a romantic and sexual relationship that influences the course of their lives.
27) Son of the mob
Author
Series
Son of the Mob volume Book 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed Christmas tree farmer Christopher Byrne and widowed librarian Catherine Tierney are brought together when Christopher returns to the Manhattan street corner where he last saw his sixteen-year-old son, who ran away the year before.
29) Winter and night
Author
Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his nephew Greg is arrested in New York City and then escapes, Bill Smith, along with his partner Lydia Chin, sets out to find Greg and arrives in a small New Jersey town, where he is confronted by dark secrets, both the town's and his own.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A historical novel about the author's great-aunt Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Mexican rancher, who, after being raped and apparently killed at the age of sixteen, rises from the dead with the power to heal others, causing uproar among the church's and the government's most powerful as the country inches toward revolution.
31) Mad river
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Sharp, Becky Welsh, Tom McCall. They were Bonnie and Clyde, they thought, and what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it is captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a murdered teen in a community garden reminds homicide detective Gus Ramone of an unsolved case he worked as a rookie twenty years earlier, and he enlists his now-retired mentor T.C. Cook, and his former partner Dan Holiday, who has since been disgraced as a cop, in an effort to find a killer they dubbed the Night Gardener and finally bring him to justice.
33) The beach quilt
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her 16-year-old daughter reveals that she is pregnant--an announcement that shocks the small community of Yorktide, Maine--Cindy Bauer, as their family is thrown into chaos, bands together with her friends and neighbors to make a baby quilt that reflects all of their hopes and dreams.
34) The killing
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When James is given the mission of digging up leads on Leon, a small-time crook with big money, James unravels a larger plot than expected with the only person who might know the truth being a deceased eighteen-year-old boy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
111, 4 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are in their first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began-- on email."--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bane, the monstrous tyrant who bestrides the entire mage world, demands that Titus hand over Iolanthe or watch as his entire realm is destroyed in a deadly rampage, Iolanthe and Titus decide to infiltrate Bane's crypt, the most ferociously guarded fortress in Atlantis.
38) Covet
Author
Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace, a mere mortal who attends Katmere Academy, finds that her relationships with the other students have grown more complicated, with Jaxon becoming more distant, the Circle split over her upcoming coronation, and an arrest warrant for her and Hudson, which could result in a prison sentence with an unbreakable curse.
39) Hopepunk
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her sister runs away, teenager Hope Cassidy rebels against her conservative family by starting a rock band with her former crush, Danny, who is kicked out of his house when he comes out to his family"--
Growing up in a conservative Christian household, Hope Cassidy spent her whole life being told that the devil speaks through Led Zeppelin. Her sister, Faith, can't be honest about dating the record shop cashier, Mavis. When their youngest sister...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
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