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As a woman cleans a funeral home, a corpse leaps off the embalming table. So begins a horror romance featuring Summer McAfee, who runs her own janitorial business. The corpse turns out to be Steve Calhoun, a detective on the run from crooked cops and drug dealers, so badly beaten he resembles a monster. Scalpel in hand, he threatens to cut Summer's throat, ties her with her bra and abducts her. It's the start of a wild adventure in the course of which...
2) Firegirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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670L
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English
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A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
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"Palahniuk's fashion-model protagonist has it all, boyfriend, career, loyal best friend-- until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book 's characters."--Provided by publisher.
5) The promise
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Determined to get married despite parental disapproval, young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are separated just before their wedding by a cruel deception, and each pursues a new life, until they are reunited by fate.
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A New York Times Bestseller Nominated for the National Book Award, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and Winner of the Alex Award, "One of the Most Compelling Books of the Year" (Blake Butler, Vice ) Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to explore. As the creator of "Trace Italian"-a text-based role-playing game that's played through the mail-Sean...
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Scar Boys volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Told as an interview with the successful but increasingly dysfunctional band after they reach the pinnacle of success, the bandmates and friends try to cope with the amputation of Johnny's leg, Cheyenne's pregnancy, and Harry's unrequited love for Chey.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.
Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy...
13) The hollow girl
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840L
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Bethan, apprentice to a Welsh Roma witch, is harrassed by the son of the clan's chieftain and then, after a brutal assault against her and a friend, must collect grisly objects to save her friend's life.
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Moonlight Bay volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Jessica Blackwood is trying to make her architectural design firm a success, and she's off to a great start, thanks to a recommendation that leads to the job of the century-designing a house for a wealthy but reclusive bachelor. The only problem? Jessica's new client happens to be her old high school nemesis. The bigger problem? He's no longer the cocky boy who once tormented her, and suddenly she finds herself intrigued by her new client. Christopher...
15) The hunted
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Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 680L
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English
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Ella is out in the country, alone now except for her silent rescuer, Scarface, about whom she knows nothing, while Ed leaves London on a dangerous quest, determined to find Ella and keep his promise to Small Sam that he will reunite sister and brother.
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Scar Boys volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.
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Swan House volume 02
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English
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"Sprinkled with humor, heartache and history, this stand-alone sequel to The Swan House is a journey of sacrifice, forgiveness and hope that finds a daughter and mother linked by love, but separated by secrets"--Provided by publisher.
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