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61) The Enforcer
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Miami's top mob enforcer Cuda sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organization he's spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss Estelle is putting a young runaways life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption, both for himself and his family, before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2014
Language
English
Description
Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As Solace opens, we meet a Northern Ontario family in crisis: their rebellious teenage daughter, Rose, has disappeared. Weeks have passed with no word, but still Rose's little sister, Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping that Rose will come back. Feisty and fierce, Clara is not only missing Rose; she is also missing her elderly friend and next-door neighbour, Mrs. Orchard, a retired schoolteacher who is away in hospital. While...
65) August: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
August is an average twelve-year-old. He likes dogs and fishing and doesn't mind early-morning chores on his family's Michigan dairy farm. But following his parents' messy divorce, his mother decides that she and August need to start over in a new town. There, he tries to be an average teen -- playing football and doing homework -- but when his role in a shocking act of violence throws him off course once more, he flees to a ranch in rural Montana,...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Collects the novels of the Modern Faerie Tales trilogy, and also includes a new short story.
Tithe: Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
Valiant: Seventeen-year-old Valerie's a runaway who's living in New York City with a group of squatters. She agrees to help track down the lair of a mysterious creature, and finds herself feeling affection...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and--most heart-wrenching--her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what's left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman. A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is strange but welcoming and immediately intuits Jess as a loose end in need of closure. But...
68) Galveston
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Roy is a heavy-drinking criminal enforcer and mob hit man whose boss set him up in a double-cross scheme. After killing his would-be assassins before they could kill him, Roy discovers Rocky, a young woman being held captive, and reluctantly takes her with him on his escape. Determined to find safety and sanctuary in Galveston, Roy must find a way to stop his boss from pursuing them while trying to out-run the demons from his and Rocky's pasts.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappling with the fact that his older brother has run away from home, when he finds a handmade postcard that fascinates him. And soon he spots another. Despite his losing interest in pretty much everything since Jackson ran away, Hartley finds himself searching for cards in his small town at every opportunity, ignoring other responsibilities, namely choosing a topic for his final project. Who is...
71) Sinister
Author
Series
Shaye Archer novels volume 2
Publisher
[Jana DeLeon]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Street kids are disappearing, but how do you report that to the police when, from their standpoint, the missing people didn't exist to begin with? Hustle is certain that something bad has happened to his friend Jinx, and the only person he can turn to for help is private investigator Shaye Archer. Because Hustle helped the young PI while she was investigating her first case, Shaye has already formed an opinion as to his character and believes he's...
Author
Series
Tales of the kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Faced with the prospect of an unhappy life in the Kingdom, fourteen-year-old Birle accompanies a young runaway nobleman on a journey south and falls into slavery in the citadel of a cruel prince.
74) Man made Boy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Tired of being sheltered from humans, seventeen-year-old Boy, son of Frankenstein's monster and the Bride of Frankenstein, runs away from home and embarks on a wild road trip that takes him across the country and deep into the heart of America.
75) Away west
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1923, when New Orleans native and orphan Bobby Lee Claremont boards a train to Chicago, where he hopes to join the criminal element and make a new life for himself, far away from the heavy-handed salvation of the Sisters of Charitable Mercy, he acquaints himself with a group of intriguing and possibly dangerous passengers who cause Bobby Lee to reconsider his plans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
They were six normal teenagers linked only by their wealthy parents' annual business meeting ... until a chance discovery revealed the shocking truth: their parents are the secret criminal society known as the Pride. For years, the Pride controlled all criminal activity in Los Angeles, ruling the city with an iron fist ... and now, with their true natures exposed, the Pride will take any measures necessary to protect their organization--even if it...
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