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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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Ellen Foster duology volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Series
Amos Walker novels volume 14
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English
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Description
In Estleman's latest novel, Amos Walker is back on the streets of Detroit as he investigates the mysterious death of an ageing pulp fiction writer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
14) Blinding light
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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
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Language
English
Description
What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year...
17) Starling house
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English
Description
"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer...
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English
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"A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction"--Publisher.
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English
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A wickedly funny sequel to Grimes' bestselling novel "Foul Matter." Hitmen Candy and Karl are asked to get rid of L. Bass Hess, but almost decline the assignment after their initial surveillance of him. It is only when they hear about his preposterous lawsuit against Cindy Sella they decide to help. Candy and Karl devise a series of zany capers to drive Hess out of New York City - permanently.
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Language
English
Description
In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City. The novel earns a modest but enthusiastic readership, and Adana begins a sequel. Just before she dies, she and her son, Maxwell, destroy the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower discovers a mysterious package containing a manuscript titled A Model Earth, written by none other than Adana Moreau. Saul tracks...
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