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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The year is 1751 and at the age of twenty Tristan Hart leaves home to study medicine at the hospital of St. Thomas in London. Mr. Hart is also a psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but his equally storng and much harder to control obsession is with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires, he uses the new tools of the age--reason and science and skepticism--to plumb the depths of his own kard...
482) Storm
Author
Series
SYLO chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
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CSL - Books by or about Persons with Disabilities
CSL - LGBTQ Book Club sets
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Books by or about Persons with Disabilities
CSL - LGBTQ Book Club sets
CSL - Shorter book club reads
Description
The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches in the basement of bars. There two men fight "as long as they have to." A gloriously original work that exposes what is at the...
484) Execution
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace. Now, only Alex can stop him, but he must decide how far he will go -- and what he will sacrifice -- to stop his foe.
485) Into the light
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune...
487) The river why
Description
Sick of living in a home shrouded with secrets, lies, and a smothering sense of competition, Gus runs away from home and the shadow of his famous fly-fishing father. Determined to live life like he wants it, Gus makes his new home in a secluded cabin on the banks of a river where he plans to fish all day. Instead, he is propelled into a quest for self-discovery. Based on a book that has become a cult classic and set in the breathtaking wilds of Oregon,...
488) Dead in the water
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After America is drawn into World War II, Hank McCallum finds himself on the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, separated from his brother Theo, in constant danger from torpedoes, and just learning about the prejudice and segregation that plague his new friend from Tonga, Bradford.
489) Cub
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Theo enters a cooking contest and catches the eye of a celebrity restaurant owner."--
490) A Boy and His Dog
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
An adaptation of Harlan Ellison's novella about a misogynistic society in the post World War IV civilization of 2024.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
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Description
Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas...
493) Sometimes I cry
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Sometimes it's the sting from a fall that brings tears to your eyes, but other times it's laughing so hard from a tickle fight that you start to cry. Follow a young boy as he explores the wide range of emotions that cause him to cry - from joy to disappointment, from laughter to pain, from love to grief. Through moving and lyrical prose, this work offers a gentle, necessary affirmation of the emotional complexity of growing up, particularly for a...
495) Fight club
Formats
Description
A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
496) Stand-off
Author
Series
Winger volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Ryan Dean West is back to his boarding school antics in this bitingly funny sequel to Winger, which Publishers Weekly called ���alternately hilarious and painful, awkward and enlightening��� (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It���s his last year at Pine Mountain, and Ryan Dean should be focused on his future, but instead, he���s haunted by his past. His rugby coach expects him to fill the roles once played by his lost friend,...
498) Demon apocalypse
Author
Series
Demonata volume 6
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Grubbs Grady tries to resist his werewolf urges and evade the eight-armed grasp of the demonic Lord Loss.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
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Description
An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods...
500) The hunted
Author
Series
The living volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy manages to make it back to land but he is far from safe because a secret his cruise ship co-worker, Addie, shared with him is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he has become a moving target.