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Otto
Undercover:
Born to
Drive - By
Rhea Perlman |
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Otto is a kid
racecar
driver, an
inventor,
and a very
bad singer.
Otto also
loves wacky
wordplay. He
lives with
his two
nutty aunts,
FiFi and
FooFoo, who
are the pit
crew for his
gadget-geared
racecar,
named
Racecar.
They've yet
to lose a
race. When
competitive
Wilson
Carlson
Fullsom
tries to
sabotage
Otto and
Racecar for
a $1 million
prize, and
two thugs
set out to
steal
Racecar,
these dumb
guys will
learn they
are not
match for
Otto. Otto,
too, has
something to
learn, he's
the son of
two
undercover
agents! |
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Otto
Undercover:
The Canyon
Catastrophe
- By Rhea
Perlman |
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Otto has
recently
found out
that he is
an
undercover
agent. So
Aunts FiFi
and FooFoo
have decided
to take him
on a
relaxing
vacation to
the Grand
Canyon.
That's not
so easy in
the secret
agent
business.
They must
all don
disguises,
including
Racecar, who
has been
transformed
into an ice
cream truck.
But Otto
soon
discovers
that trouble
looms near
in the form
of a large
girl with a
Snoopy tent
and 10,000
sticks of
dynamite!
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The Five
Lost Aunts
of Harriet
Bean - By
Alexander
McCall Smith |
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When Harriet
Bean’s
father
mentions
that he has
five
sisters,
whom Harriet
has never
met, she is
immediately
intrigued.
Harriet is
determined
to uncover
the
whereabouts
of her five
lost aunts,
but with
nothing more
than an
unfinished
family
portrait and
a few
outdated
clues, will
she be able
to locate
them? Join
Harriet in
her search
to reunite
her father
with his
five lost
sisters:
Veronica,
Harmonica,
Majolica,
Japonica,
and
Thessalonika.
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Harriet Bean
and the
League of
Cheats - By
Alexander
McCall Smith |
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Harriet is
invited to
help her two
mind-reading
detective
aunts,
Thessalonika
and
Japonica,
investigate
serious
cheating in
the world of
horse
racing.
Cunningly
disguised by
Aunt
Thessalonika
as a jockey,
9-year-old
Harriet
works to
uncover the
dastardly
deeds of the
unscrupulous
League of
Cheats. But
dealing with
Charlie
Heat, the
slippery
president of
the League
of Cheats,
can be
tricky. Will
Harriet be
up to the
challenge? |
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Joe Sherlock
Kid
Detective:
The Haunted
Toolshed -
By Dave
Keane |
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Strange and
unexplained
things are
happening on
Baker Street
after dark,
and Joe
Sherlock
must come
face-to-face
with the
things that
go bump in
the night.
Even though
a cold
tingle of
terror
gallops down
his spine
like a herd
of wild
gophers, Joe
is
determined
to solve the
case and
have his
bundt cake,
too. |
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Joe
Sherlock Kid
Detective:
The
Neighborhood
Stink - By
Dave Keane |
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On a
beautiful,
carpetlike
lawn in a
gated yard
sit
mysterious
and smelly
piles of dog
poop. Mrs.
Fefferland
puts Joe
Sherlock on
the case to
sniff out
the culprit.
But even
Sherlock
Holmes never
encountered
a case as
baffling or
as
stomach-churning
as this one.
Most of the
evidence is
right under
Joe's nose,
but danger
is never far
behind!
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Hannah West
in the
Belltown
Towers - By
Linda Johns |
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Hannah West is
not your
ordinary
twelve-year-old.
She’s
artistic,
full of
street
smarts, and
best of all,
she’s a
budding
detective.
She and her
mom are
technically
homeless,
but thanks
to a series
of
house-sitting
jobs, they
always have
a place to
stay. In
this first
book in a
lively new
Sleuth
series,
Hannah and
her mom, who
adopted
Hannah from
China when
she was a
baby, move
into their
latest new
place: a
high-rise
apartment in
Seattle’s
swanky
Belltown
towers.
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And just as
they’re
getting
settled,
someone
tries to
steal a
valuable
piece of
artwork from
one of their
new
neighbors!
Quick as a
wink, Hannah
is on the
trail of a
thief who is
wreaking
havoc on
Seattle’s
thriving art
scene! Armed
with her
keen eye and
ever-present
sketchbook,
no detail
gets past
Hannah
unnoticed. |
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The
Freaky Joe
Club: The
Case of the
Singing
Seadragons
By P.J.
McMahon |
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When the
Imagination
Railroad
competition
comes to the
Edith R.
Hammerrocker
Elementary
School, the
Freaky Joe
Club is
determined
that their
team, the
Sea Dragons,
will triumph
over their
archrivals,
the Sharks,
even though
it's tough
to beat the
Sharks at
anything.
Will the Sea
Dragons find
out why
Conor has
disappeared?
Who is
Ralfaella
Luderino,
and why is
she so
interested
in an old
team called
the
Mermaids?
And who
exactly are
these
Mermaids
anyway? And
most of all:
WHO IS
FREAKY JOE? |
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Sammy Keyes
and the
Psycho Kitty
Queen - By
Wendelin Van
Draanen |
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Sammy’s never
been what
you might
call lucky.
But finding
a dead cat
on her
birthday?
That ranks
up there in
her top-10
unluckiest
moments. And
not just
because it
was the
ugliest dead
thing she’d
ever seen.
No, it was
more the
chain of
events that
happened
after. Like
getting
hosed down
by a crazy
cat lady who
blames Sammy
for her
pet’s
violent end.
And being
chased
through an
alley by a
guy with a
cleaver. And
being thrown
in the ring
by a cranky
pro-wrestler
called El
Gato—oh, no
wait, that
was the good
part of her
day. |
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Tom Swift,
Into the
Abyss - By
Victor
Appleton |
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Tom. Bud, and
Yo are on
the S.S.
Nestor, a
Swift
Enterprises
research
vessel, to
witness Mr.
Swift
testing his
submersible,
the Verne-1.
Mr. Swift
plans to use
the Verne-1
to place a
network of
seismometers
on the sea
floor to
detect
underwater
earthquakes,
volcanic
eruptions,
and other
phenomena
that might
generate
tidal waves
on the
ocean's
surface. But
when an
unexpected
storm hits
and the S.S.
Nestor
looses
contact with
the Verne-1,
it's up to
Tom to save
his father. |
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Tom Swift
and the
Robot
Olympics -
By Victor
Appleton |
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Tom's been
training his
entry,
SwiftBot,
for the
upcoming
Robot
Olympics, a
major event
being
sponsored by
the White
House's
Office of
Science and
Technology.
Teenage
inventors
from around
the country
will be
bringing
their
homemade
robots to
compete in a
series of
athletic
competitions.
The Road
Back, an
antiscience
terrorist
group, has
issued a
statement
condemning
the event,
and Tom
hopes that
the tight
security at
the Robot
Olympics
will keep
TRB from
causing
trouble. But
no such
luck.
Someone is
playing
dirty and
things are
going to get
dangerous. |
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Lady
Grace: Exile
- By Lady
Grace
Cavendish |
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There's a new
arrival, a
mysterious
and exotic
young
princess, at
Court and
Lady Grace
can't
believe how
many rumours
there are
about her
already. The
exiled Banoo
Yasmine from
Sharakand is
a beautiful
girl with a
pet panther
and,
everyone
believes,
magical
powers.
Yasmine also
possesses
the renowned
Heart of
Kings Ruby,
a huge stone
that she
wears around
her neck to
balls and
feasts, that
legend says,
has the
power to
make kings.
When the
famed jewel
goes
missing, the
finger is
pointed at
Grace's dear
friend Ellie
the
laundrymaid.
Grace must
prove her
friend's
innocence,
find the
true thief
and restore
the stone to
its rightful
owner. |
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The Raven
League - By
Alex Simmons
and Bill
McCay |
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When Archie
Wiggins is
kicked out
of the Baker
Street
Irregulars,
the gang of
urchins that
assists
famous
detective
Sherlock
Holmes, he
has no idea
what to do
next. But
then Holmes
himself goes
missing and
it seems the
Irregulars
might have
had
something to
do with it.
Now Wiggins
and a few
other
misfits must
take matters
into their
own hands. |
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The Case of
the Missing
Marquess -
By Nancy
Springer |
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When Enola
Holmes, the
much younger
sister of
detective
Sherlock
Holmes,
discovers
her mother
has
disappeared,
on, her 14th
birthday
nonetheless,
she knows
she alone
can find
her.
Disguising
herself as a
grieving
widow, Enola
sets out to
the heart of
London to
uncover her
mother’s
whereabouts
but not even
the last
name Holmes
can prepare
her for what
awaits.
Suddenly
involved in
the
kidnapping
of the young
Marquess of
Basilwether,
Enola must
escape
murderous
villains,
free the
spoiled
Marquess,
and perhaps
hardest of
all, elude
her shrewd
older
brother, all
while
collecting
clues to her
mother’s
disappearance! |
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Dead Letter,
A Herculeah
Jones
Mystery - By
Betsy Byars |
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When Herculeah
discovers a
mysterious
letter
inside the
lining of a
secondhand
coat, she
suspects
it's a
desperate
cry for
help. If so,
what
happened to
the person
who wrote
it?
Herculeah
thinks she
knows the
answer. What
she doesn't
know is that
someone is
watching
her, someone
who will do
anything to
keep her
quiet.
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Death’s
Door, A H
Herculeah
Jones
Mystery - By
Betsy Byars |
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Herculeah
Jones finds
herself in
the middle
of another
mystery when
her best
friend Meat
barely
escapes a
hitman’s
bullet.
Someone must
have
mistaken
Meat for
someone
else. But
who?
Herculeah is
determined
to solve the
mystery,
before the
assassin
comes after
her! |
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Gilda Joyce:
The Ladies
of the Lake
- ByJennifer
Allison |
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Gilda Joyce
leaves her
wacky
disguises at
home but
brings all
of her
psychic and
investigative
skills with
her as she
sets out to
investigate
a mysterious
death at a
Catholic
girls’
school. Is
Our Lady of
Sorrows
really
haunted by
the ghost of
Dolores
Lambert? Or
is the
student body
suffering
from group
hysteria?
Solving this
mystery will
put Gilda in
more danger
than she
ever
imagined and
will take
all of her
brashness,
bravery, and
smarts.
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SilverFin:
A James Bond
Adventure -
By Charlie
Higson |
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Before the
name became
a legend.
Before the
boy became
the man.
Meet young
Bond, in
this
thrilling
prequel to
the James
Bond series,
readers meet
a
thirteen-year-old
schoolboy
whose
inquisitive
mind and
determination
set him on a
path that
will one day
take him all
over the
world, in
pursuit of
the most
dangerous
criminals
known to
man. When
we're first
introduced
to young
James, he's
just started
boarding
school at
Eton in the
1930s. His
first
adventure is
set in the
Highlands of
Scotland,
where James
spends a
holiday at a
remote
castle.
Mysterious
things start
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then James
discovers
that the
dark waters
around the
castle
contain a
sinister
secret and
he becomes
aware that a
very
dangerous
mind is at
work.
SilverFin is
the story of
Young Bond's
first
mission to
thwart a
deadly foe. |
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Bloodfever:
A James Bond
Adventure -
By Charlie
Higson |
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An Eton boy’s
family
disappears
at sea.
James
uncovers a
shadowy
society
operating in
a hidden
corner of
the school.
And far from
England, in
the
bandit-infested
interior of
Sardinia, a
sinister
Italian
count has
built
himself a
mountain
fortress. Is
there a
connection?
Young Bond
is about to
find out and
face a
lethal group
of villains
beneath the
burning
Mediterranean
sun. |
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Scorpia -
By Anthony
Horowitz |
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Still reeling
from the
terrible
discovery he
has made
about his
father,
teenage MI6
superspy,
Alex Rider,
is
determined
to find out
more.
Traveling to
Italy, he
manages to
infiltrate
the
glamorous
world of
Claudia
Rothman,
beautiful
society
hostess and
member of
the
international
criminal
organization,
Scorpia. She
reveals that
Alex's
father was
murdered by
MI6, in an
operation
masterminded
by Head of
Special
Operations,
Mrs Jones.
Shocked and
angry, Alex
faces a
choice: to
continue to
work with
the British
security
services, or
to become an
agent for
Scorpia and
get revenge. |
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Jimmy
Coates:
Target - By
Joe Craig |
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Jimmy Coates
is on the
run from
secret
government
agency NJ7.
There’s
nowhere he
can hide and
nothing NJ7
won’t do to
eliminate
him. Jimmy’s
strange
talents are
going to be
tested to
their
limits. How
do you
survive when
your enemy’s
greatest
weapon is a
boy just
like you? |
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The
Lightning
Thief - By
Rick Riordan |
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Percy Jackson
is a good
kid, but he
can’t seem
to focus on
his
schoolwork
or control
his temper.
And lately,
being away
at boarding
school is
only getting
worse. Percy
could have
sworn his
pre-algebra
teacher
turned into
a monster
and tried to
kill him.
Percy’s mom
decides its
time that he
knew the
truth about
where he
came from.
She sends
Percy to
Camp
Half-Blood,
a summer
camp for
demigods (on
Long
Island),
where he
learns that
the father
he never
knew is
Poseidon,
God of the
Sea. Soon a
mystery
unfolds and
together
with his
friends, one
a satyr and
the other
the demigod
daughter of
Athena,
Percy sets
out on a
quest across
the United
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reach the
gates of the
Underworld
(located in
a recording
studio in
Hollywood)
and prevent
a
catastrophic
war between
the gods.
But to
succeed on
his quest,
Percy will
have to
unravel a
treachery
more
powerful
than the
gods
themselves. |
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Sea of
Monsters -
By Rick
Riordan |
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After a summer
spent trying
to prevent a
catastrophic
war among
the Greek
gods, Percy
Jackson is
finding his
seventh-grade
school year
unnervingly
quiet. His
biggest
problem is
dealing with
his new
friend
Tysona, a
six-foot-three,
mentally
challenged
homeless kid
who follows
Percy
everywhere,
making it
hard for
Percy to
have any
normal
friends. But
things don’t
stay quiet
for long.
Percy soon
discovers
there is
trouble at
Camp
Half-Blood,
the magical
borders that
protect
Half-Blood
Hill have
been
poisoned by
a mysterious
enemy, and
the only
safe haven
for demigods
is on the
verge of
being
overrun by
mythological
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To save the
camp, Percy
needs the
help of his
best friend,
Grover, who
has been
taken
prisoner on
an island
somewhere in
the Sea of
Monsters,
the
dangerous
waters Greek
heroes have
sailed for
millennia.
Only today,
the Sea of
Monsters
goes by a
new name:
The Bermuda
Triangle.
Together
with his
friends,
Percy must
retrieve the
Golden
Fleece from
the Island
of the
Cyclopes or
Camp
Half-Blood
will be
destroyed.
But first,
Percy will
learn a
stunning new
secret about
his family,
one that
makes him
question
whether
being
claimed as
Poseidon’s
son is an
honor or
simply a
cruel joke. |
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Finding
Lubchenko
- By Michael
Simmons |
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Since his
millionaire
father never
gives him
any money,
slacker
genius Evan
Macalister
"liberates"
equipment
from Dad’s
business and
sells it on
line. But
then a man
is murdered
and Mr.
Macalister
is accused.
Evan alone
can clear
his father’s
name but
only by
revealing
his own
theft
operation.
And then
he’ll be
grounded
forever.
There’s just
one thing to
do, find the
real
murderer.
Armed only
with a
cryptic
e-mail from
someone
named
Lubchenko,
Evan sets
off on a
quest that
catapults
him and his
two best
friends into
a world of
danger and
international
intrigue. |
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The Rise of
Lubchenko -
By Michael
Simmons |
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Evan
Macalister
has a big
problem.
He’s
sleeping
through
summer
school,
minding his
own
business,
when an
anonymous
caller warns
him that his
father’s
partner, Jim
Richmond,
has smuggled
live
smallpox
virus into
Europe.
There he’s
planning to
sell it to a
terrorist
group and
kill Evan’s
father to
cover his
tracks.
What’s a boy
to do?
If you’re
Evan, it’s
obvious. He
jets off to
Europe with
best friend
Ruben and
new
girlfriend
Erika to
save the
day. But can
he do it?
And even if
he manages
to save the
world, his
dad,
himself, and
his friends,
how is he
ever going
to avoid
being sent
to military
school this
time? |
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Lulu Dark
and the
Summer of
the Fox -
Bennett
Madison |
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The last thing
Lulu Dark
needs is a
mystery
getting in
the way of
her
Important
Summer Plans
but when her
mother,
B-list
celebrity
Isabelle
Dark, drops
into town to
shoot a
movie, Lulu
gets just
that.
Isabelle
disappears,
and despite
her mother’s
reputation
for
flakiness,
Lulu has a
hunch she’s
in real
trouble.
Especially
when she
finds a note
among
Isabelle’s
things from
a mysterious
figure known
only as The
Fox. Lulu
must cross
paths with a
teen screen
queen, a
dodgy
director,
and a fleet
of
muscle-bound
maids before
she finds
her mom and
uncovers The
Fox’s true
identity. |
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Half Moon
Investigations
- By Eoin
Colfer |
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Ever since he
can
remember, 12
year old
Fletcher
Moon has had
to suffer
the nickname
Half Moon
because of
his short
stature.
However,
what
Fletcher
lacks in
height he
makes up for
in brains,
because
Fletcher
Moon is the
youngest
qualified
private
detective in
the world.
To achieve
this
extraordinary
feat,
Fletcher
changed his
age on his
birth
certificate
and signed
up for an
internet
diploma
course. He
graduated
top of his
class and
received a
gold plated
detective's
shield for
his effort.
Armed with
his prized
shield,
Fletcher
takes on
various
petty crime
cases in his
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Things are
going pretty
well until
one day his
shield is
stolen and
Fletcher is
caught up in
an
investigation
involving
the town's
biggest
crime
family.
Grevious
bodily harm,
arson, and
dangerous
undercover
work ensue
as Fletcher
is framed
for several
crimes he
did not
commit. He
is forced to
go on the
run from the
authorities
with twelve
hours to
find the
guilty party
-- or he is
the guilty
party. |
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The Pluto
Project - By
Melissa
Glenn Haber |
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Alan Green has
perfected
his cool
façade. He
intends to
survive the
indignities
of eighth
grade and
his father’s
remarriage
with as
little
emotion as
possible.
But even
cynics need
entertainment.
Alan
organizes a
spying game
with his
friends and
a beautiful
new student,
Juliet. They
eavesdrop
under a
bridge and
overhear
sinister
meetings
between two
mysterious
men. Then
the governor
is
assassinated.
Has Alan
accidentally
discovered
the
culprits? |
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Vampire
Beach:
Bloodlust -
By Alex
Duval |
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Jason Freeman
is stoked
when his
family
relocates to
exclusive
DeVere
Heights,
Malibu. The
in-crowd at
his posh new
high school
is
surprisingly
friendly and
soon Jason's
hitting all
the best
parties.
Determined
to enjoy his
almost
postcard-perfect
new life,
Jason tries
hard to
ignore the
many strange
things going
down in
DeVere
Heights. But
then a girl
washes up
dead the
morning
after one
off-the-hook
party with
no
explanation
but a
suspicious-looking
bite mark.
Now Jason
has to admit
that what
you don't
want to know
can hurt
you.
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Vampire
Beach:
Initiation -
By Alex
Duval |
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Jason Freeman
is getting
the hang of
DeVere
Heights.
Then life
from his
flyover past
pays an
unexpected
visit in the
form of his
old friend
Tyler.
Jason's
surprised
but psyched
to see a
familiar
face. Having
his friend
around turns
out to be a
downer,
especially
when Jason
realizes
that Tyler
is running
from some
kind of
crisis. But
Tyler isn't
in on DeVere
Heights's
little
secret. Now
instead of
escaping his
problem,
he's about
to put
himself in
mortal
danger. |
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The
Christopher
Killer - By
Alane
Ferguson |
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The sleepy
Rocky
Mountain
town of
Silverton,
Colorado
hasn’t seen
a murder in
years
according to
Pat Mahoney,
the county
coroner. So
when his
teenage
daughter,
Cameryn,
asks if she
can be his
assistant,
as
preparation
for a career
in forensic
pathology,
he figures
it’s a safe
bet. But
neither of
them
imagines
that their
first case
will involve
someone
Cameryn
knows, the
fourth
victim of a
serial
killer.
Attending
her first
autopsy is
more
difficult
than Cameryn
had ever
expected,
but she’s
determined
to find her
friend’s
murderer.
Before long,
Cameryn is
plunged into
a disturbing
mystery,
matching
wits with |
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everyone from
the
cantankerous
medical
examiner who
doubts her
abilities to
the famous
psychic who
is
predicting
yet another
death. |
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