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Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action, this time with "Unlock the Rock." For his latest game, Griswold has partnered with the famous--and famously reclusive--mystery writer Errol Roy to plan an epic escape room challenge on Alcatraz Island. Emily and James are eager to participate, but the wave of fame they are riding from their recent book-hunting adventures makes them a target. Threatening notes, missing items, and an...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary and stubborn--she and her mother, Munira, are outcasts from the insular local society--and her kitten is her main companion. When a wizened sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana receives what she has long hoped for: a father. But this makeshift family's happiness crumbles as Ayaana grows into adulthood and the threats against...
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 10
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer, and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie, a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all the other dragons.
86) Standoff
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television reporter Tiel McCoy, headed out Interstate 20 on vacation, changes her plans when she hears that the teenage daughter of a Fort Worth multimillionaire has been kidnapped, deciding instead to cover the story that brings her face-to-face with a pair of desperate young lovers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms, such as stage direction and soliloquy. It is considered the exemplar of American Romanticism,
...88) Shadows of steel
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When the newly nuclear capable Iran begins threatening the peace in the Persian Gulf, the President of the United States, faced with a weakened military force, calls upon Future Flight, a secret team of the CIA's Intelligence Support Agency, to try and avert a catastrophe.
90) Thunder point
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
British agents search for the secret diaries of Martin Bormann that reveal British Nazi sympathizers and the secret plan Protocol.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Callum Hunt's life has been difficult ever since he was admitted to the Magisterium, since his father suspects him of being evil, and his closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf--but when he discovers that his father may be trying to destroy both him and Havoc, he escapes back to the magical world and he and his friends Aaron and Tamara, become involved in the search for the stolen Alkahest, a copper gauntlet with dangerous powers.
93) Henri's hats
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A trunk filled with amazing hats shows Henri that his grandfather is not just a quiet old man, but someone who once had the sort of grand adventures Henri imagines.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a coyote pup named Trouble stows away in the back of a truck, he ends up in the heart of New York City, and must choose between the risks of being caught and the dangers of a long journey home.
Author
Series
Adventurers wanted volume 2
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old wizard-in-training Alex Taylor and his band of fellow adventurers battle a goblin army, navigate an enchanted forest, and try to solve the sphinx's riddle in their quest to find the lost Horn of Moran and return it to Norsland before the nation erupts in war.
96) Whiskerella
Author
Series
Hamster Princess volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When a fairy godmouse forces Whiskerella to wear glass slippers and attend balls night after night in search of a happily ever after, it's up to Princess Harriet Hamsterbone to break the spell and save the day"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A deadly plague is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea and has now extended its reach to claim the lives of humans. Dirk Pitt, researcher with the National Underwater and Marine Agency must find the source of the plague and head off a disaster that will claim the lives of millions of people and animals.
98) Furthermore
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Alice Queensmeadow, with the help of her friend Oliver, travels through the dangerous, magical land of Furthermore in order to rescue her missing father and prove her own magical abilities"--
99) Half upon a time
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the village of Giant's Hand Jack's grandfather has been pushing him to find a princess and get married, so when a young lady falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says "Punk Princess," and she tells Jack that her grandmother, who looks suspiciously like the long-missing Snow White, has been kidnapped, Jack decides to help her.
100) Home free
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
President Martine Connor, the Sisterhood's long-time ally, has announced the formation of a top-secret organization. Officially, the CIC won't exist. Unofficially, they'll report directly to the president and tackle the jobs no one else can handle. For the Sisterhood, it's the end of an era--and the beginning of a whole new adventure.
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