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Par Gary Paulsen. 1996
After taking pictures of drug dealers disembarking from a small plane, two tenagers find themselves on a flight that may…
force them to make their first jump much sooner than they expect. Grades 4-7. 1996.Par Walter Dean Myers. 2000
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give…
him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. Junior and Senior High. 2000.Par Carl Weber. 2006
All's good for James and his wife Cathy--especially between the sheets. But then a woman shows up with James' love…
child and demands to get paid. Undeniably suave Brent's got trouble too as he's tempted by another after finding happiness with a born-again churchgoer. And long-time friend Sonny needs help from his two best friends if he's to keep his wife from leaving him. Doing the right thing isn't easy, but with each other's help, James, Brent, and Sonny are going to become the men they want to be. 2006.Par Michael Frayn. 2012
On the Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by the young and…
charming Dr Norman Wilfred, an authority on science. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand, Including Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser. Meanwhile, at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie was supposed to be sharing a villa with a notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, but is instead trapped with a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality - everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science. 2012.Par Todd Babiak. 2016
Christopher Kruse has remained in France working for the ambitious Mayor of Paris, wandering streets haunted by his lost family…
and watching over a woman and her daughter. But when a charismatic politician is murdered by a grenade attack in the Jewish quarter, Kruse catapults back into the maelstrom of organized crime and dirty politics. A young woman named Zoé, working for a shadowy division of the French clandestine services, hires Kruse and his old colleague and mentor Tzvi to hunt down and assassinate the killer. Sequel to "Come, barbarians". 2016.Par Jennifer Mook-Sang. 2015
Jelly is as surprised as anyone when he decides that he’s going to win the annual sixth grade speech contest.…
Just like that, Joe Alton Miles, better known as Jelly (because his initials are J.A.M. and his best friend’s are P.B.), is faced with overcoming not only his terror of being in the spotlight, but also the wrath of smart, popular Victoria, who believes that the prize (like all prizes) is rightfully hers. At first, Jelly only cares about winning the awesome prize (a new tablet), but as Victoria escalates her campaign against him, Jelly begins to realize that it’s not only the prize that’s at stake, but also his reputation, his self-respect and the friendship he values most. Jelly must dig deep inside himself to find out if he’s strong enough to stand up to Victoria and show everyone what he’s really capable of. Grades 5-8. 2015.Par Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone. 2011
Kids can learn to make their own ice cream, create an indoor avalanche and pick up an ice cube with…
just a piece of string. Also included are fun facts about icebergs, frost, "orange" snow and lots more ‘cool’ winter science! Grades 2-4. 2011.Par Catherine Asaro. 2017
Eldrinson Valdoria is a bard and leader on the planet Skyfall, a world with a culture considered primitive by the…
starflung civilization of the Imperialate. As adept with a sword as he is with a ballad, he is also an undiscovered telepath of great power. Roca Skolia, a former dancer, is now the Councilor for Foreign Affairs in the Imperialate's governing Assembly and heir to the Ruby Pharaoh of the Skolian Imperialate. Caught in a political struggle with her warlord son, she ends up stranded on Skyfall and missing a meeting of the Assembly to vote on humanity's first interstellar war. Though trapped, she finds herself drawn to Eldrinson, whose thoughts are as clear as the words he cannot write. As their attraction deepens into a love that the laws of both their peoples forbid, the flames of war ignite among the stars. Sequel to "The moon's shadow", followed by "Schism". 2017.Par Catherine Asaro. 2016
Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of the Skolian Empire, struggle to bring…
together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet they must move quickly if they are to resume their rightful place as rulers of Skolia. Sequel to "The quantum rose", followed by "The moon's shadow". 2016.Par Bryan Gruley. 2009
Gus Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big…
at the Detroit Times. In his youth, Gus was the goalie who let a state championship get away, crushing Coach's dreams and earning the town's enmity. Now he's investigating the murder of his former coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town’s past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets—secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep. 2009.Par Brian Freeman. 2008
A seductive young woman has disappeared, leaving behind a stash of lurid fantasies and a cryptic message. Jonathan Stride and…
Serena Dial uncover a sordid web of violence and voyeurism that someone is willing to kill to keep hidden. Sequel to "Stripped", followed by "In the dark". 2008.Par Wallace J Swenson. 2017
1873. Simon Steele accidentally killed a bartender in Wyoming and then denigrated his life-long friend. His friend left without a…
word, their friendship broken. When his letter to a lost love elicits what he sees as another final rejection, Simon decides to go into the Whitecloud Mountains of Idaho Territory to see if he can regain some sense of worth. Always naive and trusting, Simon opens himself to trouble when he teams up with Justin Reed, a self-serving muleskinner who has ulterior motives. 2017.Par Donna Kauffman. 2015
After returning home to Blueberry Cove only to be roped into helping plan her big sister Hannah's Christmas wedding, Fiona…
McCrea hopes that her childhood crush, Ben Campbell, who is also back in town, will finally notice her. 2015.Par Jonathan Auxier. 2016
Twelve-year-old Sophie knows little beyond the four walls of her father's bookshop, where she repairs old books and dreams of…
escaping the confines of her dull life. But when a strange boy and his talking cat/horse companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she finds herself pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read. Sequel to "Peter Nimble and his fantastic eyes". Grades 4-7. 2016.Par Judith Byron Schachner. 2005
Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat who wants to be a Chihuahua dog. In his room for a time-out, Skippyjon…
Jones lets his imagination take him to a shack where his Chihuahua friends are yipping and yapping and hiding out from the bad Bobble-ito, who has taken over their doghouse. How El Skippito chills the Chihuahuas and banishes the Bobble-ito will make more amigos for this endearing and irresistible rascal. Grades 2-4. 2005.Par Alexandra Popoff. 2010
As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival…
material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.Par Ian Rankin. 2012
After retiring from the force in “Exit Music”, John Rebus takes a civilian position in Edinburgh’s cold cases division. His…
interest is sparked by Nina Hazlitt, who insists that her daughter’s disappearance twelve years earlier is connected to two more recent cases. Includes strong language and violence. 2012.Par Harlan Coben. 2012
Soccer mom Megan hides--and misses--her former stripping career. The cause of Megan’s identity change still torments her ex-boyfriend Ray. Meanwhile,…
detective Broome continues searching for Megan’s long-vanished customer. The three are brought together by a new missing-person case. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2012.Par David Sedaris. 2010
A collection of sharply observed animal-themed tales. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear…
an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of our own everyday interactions. Includes strong language. 2010.Par Cherie Blair. 2008
Cherie Blair's autobiography takes the reader from a childhood in working-class Liverpool to the heart of the British legal system…
and then, as the wife of the Prime Minister, to 10 Downing Street. 2008.