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Texas Coast thriller about Roy Cady, a strong arm for a New Orleans gangster, who has two major problems: a hit is put out on him by his boss and he has terminal cancer - all while running to Galveston. (trailer)
Mrs. Ro Grandee is a fierce and dirty girl trapped in a marriage full of abuse. Set in a rural Texas town, this story gives an abused woman a glimpse of her own demise unless she can twist the hands of fate.
Bernice McFadden, the author of Sugar, has given us another tale of rebirth from the ashes. Follow the main character Easter from her post Emancipation era family life through the Jim Crowe South and the Harlem Renaissance. A candid portrait of the Black American experience.
Rick Riordan (author of the Clue series and Titus Olympians) has given us the start of another series. The Red Pyramid is Book 1 of the Kane Chronicles. Follow Sadie and Carter as they undo the damage caused by an experiment gone wrong in the British Museum releasing dangerous mummies. For grades 5 - 8
You remember the Girl Who Played With Fire. She is also the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. NOW, She is the Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest. (trailer) Complete the series with the posthumous release from S. Larsson as we follow Lisbeth Salander still as the prime suspect of three murders in Stockholm.
Mason and the girl he helped to escape a nursing home for "tested" children are on the run trying to escape the clutches of the nameless, faceless, mysterious Gardener and his gruesome plan.
Rosie and Scarlett March are on the hunt for werewolves called Fenris and are seeking revenge for the emotional and physical scares they endured. This modern day twist on Little Red Riding Hood leaves a grandmother dead and werewolves terrifyingly handsome. Grades 9 and up
Five lives are interwoven during key moments of modern history. Follow the descendants of Dorothy Townsend - a suffragette who starves to death for her cause - as they navigate their seemingly lives of normalcy with unconventional activism.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Michael Beard is settled in his professional career as a well sought, over paid physicist. But when his failing fifth marriage and exuberant reputation clash due to a freak accident. . . . .he quite possibly saves the world from environmental disaster.
"It happened fast. Only thirty two minutes for one world to die, another to be born." All that is left for the survivors is a long fight. A fight that begins with a security breach at a U. S. government facility that unleashes the monstrous product of a military experiment.
Danielle Trussoni introduces a story about angeloogists and their data collection and empathy toward humans. The book examines the relationship between angels, humans, good and evil all on Earth.
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