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Alex Cross novels volume 1
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English
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Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads"
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But...
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But...
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
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English
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In this "novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school [as a guest in honor of the school's 100th anniversary, and attempts] to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier"--Amazon.com.
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Adina Walker, a scholarship student at a prestigious academy, faces the consequences of a single mistake and competes in a high-stakes contest hosted by the wealthy Remington family, where she uncovers unsettling truths about the sponsors and the contest's high stakes.
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself" --
Author
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English
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
8) Parachutes
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English
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They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the US while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what to do for the first time in her life. She soon embraces her newfound...
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Series
Gallagher Girls volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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When a terrifying encounter in London reveals that one of her most-trusted allies is actually a rogue double-agent, Cammie Morgan no longer knows if she can trust her classmates, her teachers--or even her own heart.
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Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
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Series
Girls with sharp sticks volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved, learning learn to be the best society has to offer for their sponsors and investors. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians they are obedient young ladies, free from arrogance, defiance, or opinions... until Mena starts to realize that their carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears. Uncovering the dark secrets of what's actually happening -- and who they really...
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English
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1902, the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara are obsessed with each other and with Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. The girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. Their bodies are discovered in a nearby apple orchard, with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. within five years three more people die on the property--...
13) Charm
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Series
Crave volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Unravel the mystery of the missing four months between Grace and Hudson--when she finds herself trapped with the last boy she ever expected, and certainly the most obnoxious one she's ever met. If he doesn't shut up, she just might kill him...if she doesn't kiss him first.
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English
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Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
15) Tender beasts
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school--with her own brother as the main suspect--she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
16) Learned by heart
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen"--
17) Immortal
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Series
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English
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Falling in love with the mysterious Sebastian, Evie Johnson, a scholarship student at the Wyldcliffe Abbey School, is haunted by a sisterlike figure that seems to be sending her a warning.
20) Killing November
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Series
Killing November volume 1
Language
English
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"A murder at an elite boarding school makes one new girl a target."--
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