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22) Johnny angel
Author
Language
English
Description
Having lost her beloved valedictorian son in a tragic car accident, Alice Peterson begins to experience encouraging visions of her son, which are also witnessed by the late boy's troubled nine-year-old brother.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A tense and timely debut novel set amid the terrorist attacks on Paris. Paris Metro is the gripping story of an American journalist compelled to reexamine her convictions as terrorism threatens to engulf her family. It's 2015, and Kit is living in Paris, estranged from her Iraqi diplomat husband and raising their teenage son, Ahmed. Having spent the years since 9/11 covering the Middle East, from Baghdad after the U.S. invasion to Syria during the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which are not the first or the last ones he sees."--
30) Alibi: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes a riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice. It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. Nothing has changed in Venice-not the beautiful palazzi, not...
31) DJ rising
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Marley Diego-Dylan's career as "DJ Ice" is skyrocketing, but his mother's heroin addiction keeps dragging him back to earth.
Author
Series
Cloak Society volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Knight, a twelve-year-old in training to be a supervillain in the elite Cloak Society, becomes friends with a young superhero and begins to question where his loyalty lies.
35) The other woman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The most twisty, addictive and unputdownable debut thriller you'll read this year. HE LOVES YOU: Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet. BUT SHE LOVES YOU NOT: Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. AND SHE'LL STOP AT NOTHING: Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is...
36) Lost boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
37) Bread and honey
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ben paints a picture of his mother, with a little help from his animal friends.
40) Blazed
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When his manic-depressive mother is institutionalized after trying to kill herself, fourteen-year-old Jaime is sent to San Franciso to live with his estranged father, whom Jaime blames for his mother's problems.
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