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3122) The Sandcastle Empire
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the world is taken over by a brutal ruling body that controls the planet's resources, Eden resolves to survive by finding her way to a neutral island where her efforts to track down a friend are challenged by enemies and traps.
3123) Homebound
Author
Series
Icarus chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leo Fender is no stranger to catastrophe, whether it's the intergalactic war that took his mother's life or the ongoing fight for his own. He's seen his planet plundered, his ship attacked, his father kidnapped, and his brother go missing, and found himself stranded on a ship with a bunch of mercenary space pirates. Still, nothing could have prepared him for the moment he and the crew tried to save his father and discovered a dark plot that could...
3124) Black butler: 17
Author
Series
Black butler volume 17
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
155 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Due in no small part to Sebastian, his uncommon butler, Earl Ciel Phantomhive finally succeeds in earning an audience with the enigmatic headmaster of Weston College following the outcome of the annual cricket tourney. As moon-pale petals bloom on the lapels of the students who have been granted a place at the Midnight Tea Party, the man who holds all authority at the school reveals himself to his guests. Will his appearance shed light on the fate...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules or weapon smugglers. In this powerful exposé, investigative...
3126) The changing man
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As a scholarship student at the prestigious Nithercott School, seventeen-year-old Ife feels like an outcast, but when a missing classmate reappears and acts strange, Ife teams up with two other students to investigate the school's decades-old legend of the Changing Man.
3127) Bones of the Sun God
Author
Series
Pyramid hunters volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sam heads to Belize to continue his investigation into his parents' mysterious disappearance and to learn more about secret of the pyramids. But after being kidnapped by crocodile cultists, will he ever be able to find the answers he's looking for?"--
3128) By night: Volume one
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
After discovering a mysterious device, Jane and Heather decide try their hand at documentary filmmaking... in another dimension! There's something strange going on in Spectrum, South Dakota. Home to high school best friends Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows, Spectrum is a boomtown that's long since stopped booming, with nothing to show for its former glory but the abandoned Charleswood Estate, its dwindling sprocket millions, and the story of the...
3129) La noche era terciopelo
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....
Author
Series
Life on earth volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
273 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst . . . or at least the weirdest. It couldn't be an alien abduction, right? None of Claudia's classmates at Blithedale High know why she vanished and they're dealing with their own issues. Emily's trying to handle a life-changing surprise. Paula's hoping to step out of Emily's shadow. Nigel just wants to meet a girl who will laugh at his jokes. And Brett hardly lets himself get close to...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 467 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Higgins Clark is one of the most critically acclaimed mystery writers of our time. The "Queen of suspense" has sold over 100 million copies of her novels in the U.S. alone. Known for her intriguing, clever and suspenseful writing style, now you can enjoy 5 of her bestselling works adapted to feature films.
Pretend you don't see her: When a Manhattan real estate agent witnesses a murder, she joins the Federal Witness Protection Program and starts...
3132) Z. Rex
Author
Series
Hunting volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.
3133) By night: Volume two
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Two estranged childhood best friends unexpectedly travel through a portal into another, spookier world where they attempt to create the greatest documentary of all time. Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows have been to the other side...and now it's just a question of how to bring proof back home with them. And then there's the question of how the portal got there in the first place...and whether or not the town of Spectrum, South Dakota is safe, or...
3134) Grit
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's summer in rural Maine. When 17-year-old Darcy Prentiss isn't raking berries with her sister during the day, she's drinking and swimming with the boys in the quarry at night. But the fun is what's been keeping Darcy's mind off the disturbing secret she shares with Nell, the disappearance of her ex-best friend, and that hazy Fourth of July party that ended with Darcy drunk, flat on her back, and wondering how she let it get this far. Everything...
3135) The dying day
Author
Series
Malabar house volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
347 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. Inspector Persis Wadia unravels a series of cryptic verse clues in search of a 600-year-old copy of Dante's Inferno, which has gone missing along with its caretaker.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 404 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the disappearance and presumed murder of forty-three students in Iguala, Mexico, in 2014.
"The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up. On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate...
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