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81) The lovebird
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Harboring sympathy for helpless creatures, Margie falls in love with her charismatic but troubled Latin professor and joins a group of animal-rights activists whose activities force her to take refuge on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana.
82) The Leaving
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story"--
84) The warrior heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Michelle Pena, born into a powerful Mexican American gang family, tries to reconcile her gangster legacy with the girl she has become--a nationally ranked runner and academic superstar.
86) City of friends
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at...
87) Bluebird
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird,...
88) Shutter
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young woman agrees to star in a filmmaker's latest project, but soon realizes the movie is not what she expected in this chilling debut novel. In the wake of her father's death, Betty Roux doesn't allow herself to mourn. Instead, she pushes away her mother, breaks up with her boyfriend, and leaves everything behind to move to New York City. She doesn't know what she wants, except to run. When she's offered the chance to play the leading role in...
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
456 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem -- again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
90) The fold
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Suspected of attacking a boy from town and determined to protect her secrets and her twin sister, Jo flees into the woods, where she discovers the truth behind her mother's disappearance fifteen years ago.
Author
Series
Metamorphosis duology volume 2
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tav struggles to come to grips with who they are -- and who they are becoming -- in this thrilling sequel to the queer witchy fantasy The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass. After Tav's dangerous journey to the magical City of Eyes, they realize they're more than just a purple-haired, motorcycle-riding teenager who can see magic -- they know how to use it. Returning to the human world, the City of Ghosts, Tav's team races to heal the wounds in the veil between...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Vera, eager to start college and escape the celebrity her family has endured since her twin sister Ava's disappearance twelve years earlier, finds her world turned upside-down again when Ava returns.
95) Write naked
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Victor finds an old Royal typewriter at a yard sale and takes it to his uncle's isolated cabin in the Vermont woods to attempt to write, he meets up with an unusual girl, and together they explore their concerns about the world, themselves, and each other.
96) The stolen one
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages : geneological table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis despite cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
98) Heart and Seoul
Author
Series
Heart and Seoul volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a Korean adoptee, Hara Wilson doesn't need anyone telling her she looks different from her white parents. She knows. Every time Hara looks in the mirror, she's reminded that she doesn't look like anyone else in her family-not her loving mother, Ellen; not her jerk of a father, Pat; and certainly not Pat's new wife and new "real" son. At the age of twenty-five, she thought she had come to terms with it all, but when her father suddenly dies, an...
99) Road of the lost
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even the most powerful magic can't hide a secret forever. Croi is a brownie, glamoured to be invisible to humans. Her life in the Wilde Forest is ordinary and her magic is weak-until the day that her guardian gives Croi a book about magick from the Otherworld, the world of the Higher Fae. Croi wakes the next morning with something pulling at her core, summoning her to the Otherworld. It's a spell she cannot control or break. Forced to leave her home,...
100) Solstice
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Piper lives with her controlling mother amid a Global Heating Crisis, but when she gets her first taste of freedom she discovers a universe of gods and monsters where her true identity, kept secret from her birth, could make all the difference in the world.
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