Julianna Baggott
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Language
English
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Description
"The reclusive Harriet Wolf, revered author and family matriarch, has a final confession-a love story. Years after her death, as her family comes together one last time, the mystery of Harriet's life hangs in the balance. Does the truth lie in the rumored final book of the series that made Harriet a world-famous writer, or will her final confession be lost forever? Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders tells the moving story of the unforgettable...
2) Burn
Author
Series
Pure trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Inside the Dome, Partridge, having taken his father's place as leader of the Pures, realizes that things are not as clear as he thought while outside, Pressia and Bradwell continue their efforts to heal the Wretches, unsure if they can still trust their friend Partridge.
Author
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English
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Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, and others!In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who's been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group...
Author
Language
English
Description
In "The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island," a programmer finds himself working for the self-proclaimed "Bad-Boy of Virtual-Reality Therapy." While his boss is breaking new ground and breaking the rules and his coworkers are engaging in questionable uses of the latest technology, the lonely programmer is in a state of mourning over his deep personal losses and must figure out his own form of therapy.
5) Ecdysis
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Language
English
Description
Our young narrator has many skins. Shedding and taking on new ones help, them to find their way back home after leaving to avoid more tragedies and assaults. But, what price do they have to pay to acquire the one true skin that fits the best?
Author
Language
English
Description
There seems to be a strange new disease spreading around the world. People are getting stuck in the past in mostly happy memories. They are straddling the line between now and then. Although the disease ends in death, the infected seem to go willingly. The epidemiologist seeks the answers to this viral mystery while she is falling in love and yet trying not to get infected, in Julianna Baggott's Mental Diplopia.
7) Pure
Author
Series
Pure trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm.
8) Fuse
Author
Series
Pure trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where those who dwell within the Dome are safe, and those who live outside struggle to survive, Pressia decodes secrets from the past in an effort to set the Wretches free of their fusings forever.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 2004, twelve-year-old Oscar Egg is sent to live with his father in a strange netherworld under Boston's Fenway Park, where he joins the fairies, pooka, banshee, and other beings that are trapped there, waiting for someone to break the eighty-six-year-old curse that has prevented the Boston Red Sox from winning a World Series.
10) The ever breath
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twins Truman and Camille, spending winter break with their paternal grandmother, follow a secret passageway to the Breath World, where all creatures of magic dwell, to find the Ever Breath, a magical stone that maintains balance between worlds.
Language
English
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Description
"As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write: how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid...
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend's wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.