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Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Undertaker-turned-sleuth Hitchcock Sewell finds himself in over his head with murder as he probes nefarious goings-on at a Baltimore nightclub populated by a host of bizarre characters.
3) Bleachers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to...
7) For the wolf
Author
Series
Wilderwood novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose--to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods. Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves. Again. But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn't learn how to use it,...
8) The promise
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1990.
Edition
Vintage International edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents.
10) The broken tower
Author
Series
Barrier lands volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judah the Foundling chose freedom over betrayal when she leaped from the top of the castle tower. Now she finds herself wandering an unknown forest, far from everything and everyone she loves. For the first time in her life, she's beyond the great Wall that surrounds Highfall castle; for the first time, she's alone. Away from the Seneschal, the power behind the throne; away from Nate Clare, the House Magus who was her teacher, friend, betrayer. Away...
11) The second sleep
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to...
12) The gilded ones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor's army of near-immortal women warriors.
The blood ceremony will determine whether Deka will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on...
13) The unwilling
Author
Series
Barrier lands volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival - and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Pocket Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 479 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring one of the Black Dagger Brotherhood's most iconic couples, Blay and Qhuinn find themselves looking forward to their official mating ceremony. When tragedy strikes just before the happy event, all hope seems lost-and everyone in the Black Dagger Brotherhood rallies around the two of them. Will a freak winter storm bring the unthinkable, or will a warm heart in winter ensure that true love is not lost?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Against all the odds, Jack West Jr found the Three Secret Cities but at a heartbreaking cost. His beloved daughter Lily, it appeared, was slaughtered by Sphinx in a cruel ancient ritual. With his rivals far ahead of him, Jack must now get to one of the five iron mountains - two of which have never been found - and perform a mysterious feat known only as 'The Fall'. Although what is this object on the moon that is connected to it? Amid all this, Jack...
16) Backstabber
Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets an over-the-top family, a new love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn't know were missing in this engrossing novel from Jane Igharo, the acclaimed author of Ties That Tether. Hannah Bailey has never had a relationship with her father, the Nigerian businessman who had a fling with her white mother, so she's always felt clueless about part of...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hitchcock Sewell's just your average undertaker. Well, maybe he's a little better-looking than your average undertaker. And a bit of a wiseass. And his life might not be quite as quiet and dignified as one might imagine for a typical undertaker running a small family business in Baltimore. (Your typical undertaker doesn't, generally speaking, tend to play the lead in the local amateur theater production of 'Our Town, ' nor does he have such an unorthodox...
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