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Series
Felix Castor series volume 2
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Description
Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the second book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
Felix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities---"good," of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead. His friend Rafi is still possessed, the succubus Ajulutsikael (Juliet to her friends)...
Author
Series
Felix Castor series volume 3
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the third book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.
A brutal murder in the heart of London bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer,...
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Louisiana telepath and cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is friendly with a pack of werewolves and blood bonded to a vampire leader, finds herself caught in the middle of a werewolf power struggle and learns about her family's past and her powers from her great grandfather.
6) Duma key
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Description
"No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...
A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle’s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn’t survived the injuries that could have killed...
7) Pig island
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
Following the trail of a strange creature caught briefly on film, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pig skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups' isolated founder, Malachi Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil-and whether he might be responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold....
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Series
Taker volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In the second installment in her supernatural Taker trilogy, Alma Katsu, author of the highly acclaimed The Hunger, takes you on a breathtaking 200-year journey through the landscape of the heart.
Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone.
She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in a remote...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"One Past Midnight: “The Langoliers” takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t. Something’s waiting for them, you see.
Two Past Midnight: “Secret Window, Secret Garden” enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until...
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Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr. Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men-including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll-are capable of when the constraints of civilized life are loosed. This chilling anthology also collects nine of Stevenson's best-known tales of horror, including The Body-Snatcher,"...
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
ALICE gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to protect...
OREN, ten years old, a major Star Wars fan and wise beyond his years. Though Alice is wary, Oren bonds nearly instantly with...
MATTIE, a social worker in her fifties who lives in an enormous run-down house in the middle of the woods. Mattie lives alone and is always available, and so she is the person the hotline always...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The picture of Dorian Gray was a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that the townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington call it the Good House. But that all changes one summer when an unexpected tragedy takes place behind its closed doors, and the Toussaint's family history—and future—is dramatically transformed.
Angela has not returned to the Good House since her son, Corey, died there two years ago. But now, Angela is finally ready to return...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.
In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it....
17) Graveminder
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Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Rebekkah Barrow's grandmother Maylene always has tended to the dead of Claysville by proclaiming, 'Stay where I put you.' And with good reason. The worlds of the living and the dead meet in their little town, and only the Graveminder-a Barrow woman-and the undertaker have the means to keep them down. Bek never knew any of this until she returns to town upon Maylene's murder.
20) Magic street
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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When Mack Street discovers an entryway into another world, he discovers his own magical powers and realizes his actions have a strange impact on the real world.