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81) Before takeoff
Author
Language
English
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"James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover ... seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually ... a button. Which she presses ... Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles...
82) Shy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A troubled teenage boy wanders into the night, listening to the voices in his head and considering the weighty question of his future, as he escapes Last Chance, a home for disturbed young men.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
[A] novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.
Esther Ann Hicks is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win back his ex, but a new boy complicates things in Edward Underhill's heartfelt debut YA rom-dram, Always the Almost.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive....
86) The gate thief
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"In this sequel to The Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can't control him...and they can't control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless--he...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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During her sophomore year, Jessica develops a relationship with Vivi which helps her deal with the anger she has felt since her father's death, only to be overwhelmed again when Vivi dies during their senior year.
Author
Series
Thousandth floor volume 1
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
In Manhattan, 2118, a thousand-story skyscraper thrives in the middle of the city, offering every amenity you could think of. But in a potentially perfect environment, the residents are leading devastatingly imperfect lives.
89) Invincible
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Teenager Nick Gautier, having survived a zombie attack, deals with a principal who does not like him, a coach who is trying to recruit him, and a girl with secrets, while struggling to raise the dead before his soul is claimed by demons and shape-shifters.
90) 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
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen, aside from the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. She soon notices that both animals and people have begun to vanish from her town. Only Faith seems able to connect the dots to a new designer drug infiltrating her high school. To protect those she loves, she will have to confront her hidden past and use her newfound gifts, risking everything to save her friends and beloved town.
92) Christine
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
471 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of a lover’s triangle…It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry.”
"It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, sixteen-year-old Savannah Taylor is abducted after her kung fu class and must figure out how to escape and rescue fellow prisoner Jenny Dowd.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Raised by parents so intentionally isolated that they speak their own hybrid dialect, abused youth Marjorie witnesses her parents' submission to a sadistic cult leader before she is rescued by another abuse survivor who teaches her stoneworking skills.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
96) Alone out here
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.
97) Court
Author
Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"No one survived the last battle unscathed. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don't recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I'm not sure I'll ever break through. Now war is coming, and we're not ready. We're going to need an army to have any hope of winning. But first, there are questions about my ancestors that need answers. Answers that might just reveal who the real monster is among us. And that's saying something...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white attacker. Although slavery is over, Parsons, Georgia is still...
99) Red birds
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart: His older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned; his parents...
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