Sophie Littlefield
1) Aftertime
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English
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In a dystopian California, a woman searches for her daughter with the help of an enigmatic outlaw in this "evocative, sensual, harrowing" zombie thriller (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Awakening in a bleak landscape, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls enduring something terrible. With no idea of how many days or weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: her daughter, Ruthie, has vanished—along with civilization...
Awakening in a bleak landscape, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls enduring something terrible. With no idea of how many days or weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: her daughter, Ruthie, has vanished—along with civilization...
2) Horizon
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English
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Of living things there were few, but they carried on.
Cass Dollar is a survivor. She's overcome the meltdown of civilization, humans turned mindless cannibals and the many evils of man.
But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope. A mysterious traveler arrives at New Eden with knowledge of a passageway North—a final escape from the increasingly cunning Beaters. Clutching this dream, Cass and many others...
Cass Dollar is a survivor. She's overcome the meltdown of civilization, humans turned mindless cannibals and the many evils of man.
But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope. A mysterious traveler arrives at New Eden with knowledge of a passageway North—a final escape from the increasingly cunning Beaters. Clutching this dream, Cass and many others...
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"Suspense, mystery, and love" fill a multigenerational "moving drama of women in a Japanese American family. . . . The shocking revelation is unforgettable" (Booklist).
In the dark days of World War II, a mother makes the ultimate sacrifice
Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up—along...
In the dark days of World War II, a mother makes the ultimate sacrifice
Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up—along...
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Traveling to Wisconsin when a family member with gambling problems is threatened and then implicated in a murder, Stella Hardesty investigates numerous alternate suspects including the victim's business partner, a purveyor of black-market Botox and a jilted violinist.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
vii, 292 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Stella Hardesty investigates the murder of a woman whose body was found in the aftermath of a tornado, a killing for which a local man once addicted to prescription drugs has been wrongly accused.
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English
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Bestselling author Sophie Littlefield delivers a riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines story about a family put to the ultimate test when two men take them hostage inside their home Jen Glass has worked hard to achieve the ideal life: a successful career, a beautiful home in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis, a seemingly perfect family. But inside the Glass house, everything is spinning out of Jen's control. Her marriage to her husband, Ted, is on the...
7) Survivors
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DOING RIGHT ISN'T EASY IN A WORLD GONE SO WRONG… Cass Dollar outlasted the fall of civilization. But surviving Aftertime requires the kind of toughness that can conquer the violent landscape of California and still retain its humanity. When a young boy and his dying grandmother are brought to the Box, the survivalist community where Cass takes shelter, she realizes that without her help he won't be long for this unforgiving new world. But while...
9) Infected
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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242 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Carina, a high school track star and the niece of a scientist whose research deadly agents will do anything to obtain, is injected with a performance-enhancing drug that will kill her unless she can find the antidote in twenty-four hours.
10) Unforsaken
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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1 online resource
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English
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Hailey Tarbell is no typical girl. As one of the Banished who arrived from Ireland generations ago, Hailey has the power to heal—and, as she recently learned, to create zombies if she heals someone too late. But now, Hailey is finally getting a chance at a normal life. After realizing the good and bad sides of her power, Hailey has survived the unimaginable to settle with her aunt, Prairie, and her little brother, Chub, in the suburbs of Milwaukee....
11) Banished
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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1 online resource
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English
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There isn’t much worth living for in Gypsum, Missouri—or Trashtown, as the rich kids call the run-down neighborhood where sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell lives. Hailey figures she’ll never belong—not with the popular kids at school, not with the rejects, not even with her cruel, sickly grandmother, who deals drugs out of their basement. Hailey never knew her dead mother, and she has no idea who her father was, but at least she has her four-year-old...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel!
Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she's so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it's usually nothing