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1) Big trouble
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Language
English
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Description
Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.
In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt's intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what...
In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt's intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what...
Author
Language
English
Description
Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.
3) Dark song
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father loses his job and she finds out that her parents have lied to her, fifteen-year-old Ames feels betrayed enough to become involved with a criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Author
Series
Caraval volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
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Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she's, in fact, one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from him, putting his life in danger. When Varin attempts to retrieve the package, he and Keralie both find themselves entangled in a conspiracy that leaves all four of...
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English
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Enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on Nate McClusky's head and target his family. They've already murdered his ex-wife, so Nate takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school, knowing she'll be the next target. With barely any time to mourn her mother, Polly is thrust into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.
8) Black heart
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization.
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 2
Language
English
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
Author
Series
System Divine volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. Five hundred years later, it's a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel group, long thought dead, is resurfacing. Chatine, a street-savvy thief, will do anything to escape the brutal Regime, including spy on Marcellus, the grandson of the most powerful man on the planet. An officer and the...
11) Utopia: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 385 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
12) White Cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn't fit in at home or at school, so he's used to feeling like an outsider. He's also used to feeling guilty—he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago.
But when Cassel begins to have strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila. In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked...
But when Cassel begins to have strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila. In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked...
13) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Language
English
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
15) Legend
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
16) Deadfall
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
When they encounter a dying deer in the middle of a remote mountain road with fresh tire tracks swerving down into a ravine, seventeen-year-old twin brothers Ty and Cory know they have to help. Reaching the wrecked car, the vehicle appears empty, with signs that the driver escaped. They hear a sound coming from the trunk, and discover something that puts them in the crosshairs of something darker and more sinister than their wildest nightmares. --...
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Series
Language
English
Description
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including notorious SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture, through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among these war criminals were Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin...
18) Full ride
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized not just her future but also her life.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the city of Red Wheelbarrow, where the world's greatest detective has yet to meet the crime he can't solve-- every criminal in Red Wheelbarrow is caught and convicted thanks to Detective Gould's brilliant mind and cutting-edge spy technology. But lately there has been a rash of crimes so eccentric and random that even Detective Gould is stumped. Will he discover the connection between the compulsive chair thief, the novelist who uses purloined...
20) Seize the storm
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On a pleasure cruise in the Pacific, seventeen-year-old Susannah, her parents, seventeen-year-old cousin Martin, and eighteen-year-old crew member Axel face off against seventeen-year-old Jeremy, a drug lord's son, and hired killers Elwood and fifteen-year-old Shako.
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