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Seventeen years ago, bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye became entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. Now, amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice:...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting...
4) Habla!
Author
Series
Publisher
Grupo Editorial Norma
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Después de sufrir un ataque traumático a fines del verano, Melinda entra su primer año en el colegio con mucha dificultad.
5) Teach me
Author
Series
Publisher
Olivia Dade
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Martin Krause arrives at Rose Owens's high school, she's determined to remain chilly with her new colleague. Unfriendly? Maybe. Understandable? Yes, since a loathsome administrator gave Rose's beloved world history classes to Martin, knowing it would hurt her. But keeping her distance from a man as warm and kind as Martin will prove challenging, even for a stubborn, guarded ice queen. Especially when she begins to see him for what he truly is:...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she's carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. She knows she's not like the other girls--if the shabby, all-black, non-designer clothes don't give that away, the bottle of lithium hidden in her desk drawer sure does. St. Ambrose's queen bee, Greta Stanhope, picks Sarah as a target from day one-the most popular, powerful, horrible girl at school is relentless in making...
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Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? It's off to summer camp for Midoriya and the U.A. students! But this is no ordinary vacation--it's...
8) Smile
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A breakout from the Booker-prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. A psychological suspense novel unlike any he's written before, about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the uncertainty of memory. Who is unreliable? Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt...
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Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Two lonely teenage girls in 1940s Washington, DC, discover they have a penchant for solving crimes -- and an even greater desire to commit them -- in the new mystery novel by Macavity Award-winning novelist John Copenhaver. Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled seventeen-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She's lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion...
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Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"BUFFY MEETS...BUFFY? EVERYTHING CHANGES HERE. Buffy battles the Slayer from Before and Xander returns, posing a threat to everyone in Sunnydale, which someone will have to put down. Meanwhile, Giles, Willow, Ethan (still a ghost!), and Anya discover the real dangers behind the multiverse. It will change everything the thought they knew about literally EVERYTHING!"-- cover page 4.
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"THE BIG BAD OF THE MULTIVERSE REVEALED! The most ambitious event in the history of Buffy The Vampire Slayer begins here as the truth of the Multiverse is laid bare and the ultimate Big Bad arrives in Sunnydale! Even as Buffy, Willow, and Giles finally begin to fully understand the scope of the endless war the Slayers are part of, various other factions continue to try and shape the outcome to their benefit. The Council has worked too long and too...
Series
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"WHAT ARE THE SECRETS OF THE SLAYERS? Anya has been a key figure in Buffy's life ever since she arrived in Sunnydale, but there's more to the demon's mission and mysterious past than anyone knows! It starts with her secret connection to the Watcher's Council and... the first full appearance of the Slayer who came before Buffy??? And the truth behind Anya connects Buffy(s) - yes, plural - in ways no one ever saw coming -- Plus! Learn the secret truth...
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