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641) Misfit mansion
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A spooky-sweet graphic novel about a monster girl who sneaks into a human town to find a family for herself and her mythical housemates, only to unravel long-kept secrets"--
Despite her monstrous appearance, Iris has never felt like she belongs in a mansion filled with kelpies and gorgons and unicorns. She longs to find a family. Unfortunately, she and her housemates are trapped in a "foster home for horrors" run by former paranormal investigator...
642) Griffin & Phoenix
Publisher
Gold Coast
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Griffin is divorced, living in a flat in Manhattan, when his life takes an unexpected turn. Griffin decides to focus on the good, instead of the bad, and plans to enjoy his time to the fullest. Soon he meets Phoenix, a beautiful loner who appears determined to avoid relationships, and fun, at any cost. But the chemistry between Griffin and Phoenix is undeniable. The two discover they share the same secret and find not only comfort in each other's...
643) Damage done
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
""Julia Vann has a new identity after being forced to leave town because of her twin brother's terrible crime. Julia is the only survivor but she can't remember what happened--at least, that's what she tells the police"--
644) Sanditon
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
"Sanditon's...
645) House of Marionne
Author
Series
House of Marionne volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
646) The stars we share
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its covert Y-service outposts on the edge of the war-torn Empire....
647) I know you remember
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
After moving back to Anchorage and discovering the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, high school senior Ruthie embarks on a search that reveals dark secrets.
Zahra Gaines is missing. After three long years away, Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend--the only person who ever really understood her--and she vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Zahra vanished...
648) A merciful secret
Author
Series
Mercy Kilpatrick novels volume Book 3
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They're in her blood. They're her secrets--as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills. In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds....
649) The edge of anything
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
After a chance encounter, loner photographer Len and volleyball star Sage develop an unlikely friendship that enables them to begin facing their inner demons.
650) The less dead
Author
Formats
Description
"She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she's searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Her adoptive mom just passed away, and Margo misses her so much she can't begin to empty the house-or, it seems, get her brother on the phone. Not to mention she's newly single, secretly pregnant, and worried about her best friend's dangerous relationship. In an effort to cheer herself up she goes in search of her birth mother. Instead...
651) The dry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
Publisher
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2011]
Description
Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various...
654) Luca
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, this is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Life at Grace Field Home is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems... With the demons of Goldy Pond finally defeated, Emma and the other children now focus on their next task--finding the Seven Walls. But it won't be easy, especially with a dangerous new foe trying...
656) Select: book one
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Julia Jaynes of Austin, Texas, is one of the select, a secret group of humans with abilities bordering on the supernatural, but, unlike her younger sister, she has never been entirely comfortable as part of the "perfect" family--and when she falls for a normal human guy and draws attention to her more-than-normal family she finds herself banished to that most ordinary of institutions: public high school.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it's too late. Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems... Emma, Ray and their large new family find themselves up against a new enemy, fellow humans. Armed...
658) Her one mistake
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Charlotte and Harriet are best friends, but when Harriet's daughter disappears while Charlotte is watching her, it seems like the two women will never speak again. As the circumstances of the girl's disappearance become clearer, though, Harriet finds that trusting Charlotte may be her only chance at saving her daughter.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
660) Medusa
Author
Series
Myth of monsters volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever"--
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