Lois Duncan
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
On July 16, 1989, Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The police gave up, but her mother would not . . .
In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn's murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter's accidental connection to...
In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn's murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter's accidental connection to...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
The new guy at Tracy's school is handsome, intense, and desperately needs her help—but there's something about him that isn't quite right
High school junior Tracy Lloyd is unsure about the new guy in school. Brad Johnson is attractive, smart, and polite, but Tracy can't help but feel he watches her too closely. Then one day Brad confides in Tracy a horrible secret: His little sister Mindy has been kidnapped by his stepfather,...
High school junior Tracy Lloyd is unsure about the new guy in school. Brad Johnson is attractive, smart, and polite, but Tracy can't help but feel he watches her too closely. Then one day Brad confides in Tracy a horrible secret: His little sister Mindy has been kidnapped by his stepfather,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hiking trip turns into a missing persons search in this suspense novel "guaranteed to hold any reader" from the New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times Book Review).
When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when they don't come home exactly on time. Dan is a natural outdoorsman, and he knows the mountains well. Larry...
When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when they don't come home exactly on time. Dan is a natural outdoorsman, and he knows the mountains well. Larry...
5) Gallows Hill
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Salem witch trials haunt a teenage psychic in this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
When Sarah Zoltanne moves from sunny California to a small town in Missouri, she feels like she'll never fit in. Her mother is dating a jerk, the kids at her school despise her, and she misses her old home. So when a popular boy asks her to tell fortunes at a school...
When Sarah Zoltanne moves from sunny California to a small town in Missouri, she feels like she'll never fit in. Her mother is dating a jerk, the kids at her school despise her, and she misses her old home. So when a popular boy asks her to tell fortunes at a school...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the moment Rachel's family takes in her orphaned cousin Julia, strange things start to happen. Rachel grows suspicious but soon finds herself alienated from her own life. Julia seems to have enchanted everyone to turn against her, leaving Rachel on her own to try and prove that Julia is a witch. One thing about Julia is certain-she is not who she says she is, and Rachel's family is in grave danger.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Emily's teacher has said that the girl with the longest hair will be the princess in the school play. So when Emily blows out the candles on her sixth birthday cake and makes a wish, she wishes for the longest hair in the world. Day by day, Emily's hair grows. And grows. And grows. Of course she gets to play the princess, but that doesn't mean her hair stops growing. For the rest of the year, it takes up more and more of Emily's life. What will she...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When 11th grader April Corrigan learns that her unassuming father has been working undercover for the FBI, she is shocked. But when she is told that she and her family must take on other identities and move to a far away state under the Federal Witness Security Program, she feels everything familiar slipping away. Soon she has a new name, and she lives with a new fear that is more powerful than anything she has felt before. Every stranger could be...
10) Debutante Hill
Author
Language
English
Description
Louis Duncan's 1958 young adult classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town: the parties, the ball gowns, as well as one girl's growing sense of right and wrong. Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when she decides not to be a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There she...
Author
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary look at the genesis of a great writer's career, Written in the Stars is a collection of Lois Duncan's earliest stories. Composed from the ages of 13 through 22. From family relationships, to the joy and angst of first love, to the struggles of a young soldier returning from war with PTSD, this unique book, whose stories originally appeared in magazines such as Seventeen and American Girl, is a marvelous portrait of the depth and breadth...
12) Blackwood
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Si en Blackwood sólo hay cuatro alumnas, ¿de quiénes son las otras voces?".
Cuando Kit Gordy ve Blackwood Hall despuntar sobre las puertas negras de hierro, no puede evitar pensar: "Este lugar es maligno". La imponente mansión le provoca un desasosiego que en los siguientes días no hace más que intensificarse. En especial cuando oye los rumores sobre el incendio que calcinó hace años esas mismas paredes.
Entonces sus compañeras de clase...
13) News for Dogs
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Andi, Bruce, and their canine companions take on a brand-new adventure – a newspaper for dogs!
14) Hotel for Dogs
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Andi loves dogs.So when an adorable stray shows up, Andi wants to save it—but she can't take it home. With the help of her brother Bruce, she rescues the stray and its puppies and moves them into an abandoned house down the block. Then they check in Red Rover, an Irish setter whose owner mistreats him. And MacTavish, who begs for scraps in the school playground. And more…Andi is thrilled—she's running a dog hotel! But can she and Bruce...
15) Down a Dark Hall
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Kit Gordy sees Blackwood Hall towering over black iron gates, and she can't help thinking, This place is evilWhen Kit and her friends realize that Blackwood isn't what it claims to be, it might be too late.
17) Ransom
Author
Language
English
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Description
Edgar Award finalist: When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know something's wrong: "[A] gripping thriller." —Publishers Weekly
Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the new bus driver...
Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the new bus driver...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone HBG
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (5hr.,46min.,38sec.))
Language
English
Description
Nore Roberts didn't ask for a new life, but now that her mom is gone and her dad is newly married, she has to make Shadow Grove her new home. Shocked by her stepmother's youth and beauty—and by the unsettling feeling that something sinister lies behind the pretty face—Nore digs into her stepfamily’s past, and uncovers a deadly history. Can Nore expose her stepmother's dark secret before an old and evil southern magic swallows her up?A Blackstone...
19) Down a dark hall
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kit Gordy, a new student at the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, confronts the institution's supernatural occurrences and dark powers of its headmistress.
20) Summer of fear
Publisher
Doppelganger Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Rachel's cousin Julia comes to live with the family at the farm, unsettling things begin to occur. Terrifying instances of the occult begin to take place, forcing Rachel to fight for survival against a horrifying demonic presence!
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