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Zombie chasers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Zack Clarke's sleepover turns into chaos when Zombies invade.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite...
Author
Series
Waiting to Exhale volume 1
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Four African American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps them face the middle of their lives as single women.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago—they all have targets on their backs. For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty....
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
"Stella Pope Duarte is a writer who will not be stopped. Her story takes its power from a larger love, and the quest here is as pressing as any I've read. This is a novel that looks at a rocky, uncertain time, with the intention of helping. It does." - Ron Carlson, author of The Hotel Eden and At the Jim Bridge
An inspiring novel about family, the memories of war, and a woman who valiantly rallies herself and those she loves into reconciling...
8) Undead ahead
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While trying to survive after zombies take over Phoenix, Arizona, Zack, Rice, and Madison discover a zombie antidote and embark on a mission to save the nation from the undead scourge.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts"--P. 4 of cover.
11) Getting to happy
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A sequel to "Waiting to Exhale" picks up fifteen years later to find Savannah contemplating divorce, Bernadine succumbing to painkiller addiction after a second husband's swindle, Robin falling into shopaholism, and Gloria confronting profound change after a fateful event.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
"They are Phoenix's first family: handsome Philip Martin, son of the sitting senator, an ex-football player who carries himself with an easy grace and who appears destined to stop into his father's seat when the time is right; his wife Marina, the stylish and elegant director of Phoenix's fine arts museum; and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Amabel, beautiful and precocious and beloved. Finn Hunt is working a dull office job to pay off her college...
13) Missing witness
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"Phoenix, Arizona, 1973. A beautiful woman, armed with a gun and accompanied by her twelve-year-old daughter, enters a house. Shots are fired. The woman and her daughter leave the house. Inside, her husband lies dead." "The case seems open and shut. The cops, the attorney general's office, and the media are certain the woman is guilty. The only witness to the shooting is in a catatonic state and cannot testify. But the murdered man's wealthy father...
15) Sonora
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam's imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura, the two fall into infatuated partnership, experimenting with drugs and sex, and watching...
Author
Series
I so don't do-- volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Samantha Shade has been hired to find out if there is something more than rats and feral cats haunting the crumbling San Rafael Mission, home of Father Rodriguez's impoverised flock. But soon, the donut-addicted rookie private investigator is sidetracked by a series of murders occurring within the parish -- and by the bookish, yet attractive, police detective leading the investigation. Several young men are found murdered in the same manner -- and...
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