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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A strange, haunting, exhilarating debut novel about survival and love in all its forms: about sexual awakenings and dark secrets, about European refugee intellectuals who've fled Hitler's armies with dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) "can-do, will-do" world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its half-broken souls--and us--to another realm of the senses....
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Cassie McDowell's life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents' strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she's grown accustomed to them. All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale. One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed--violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics, and the Internet. Celebrated journalist and activist Laurie Penny draws on a broad history of feminist thought and her own experience in radical subcultures in America and Britain to take on...
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Language
English
Description
As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year, retreating into herself and communicating only when absolutely necessary. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language and in Unspeakable she asks what makes us silent. From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Shawcross explores how and why words fail us. From the mountains of Nepal...
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English
Description
"Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II-an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frechwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbruck concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the Golden...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness.
The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers...
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English
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"Nat Cassidy's highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary: An Awakening of Terror, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can't look in a mirror without passing out, and the...
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English
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The remains of an ancient tribe, their children stolen and tortured, their best fighters slain, the parents forced to do unspeakable things, and their elders driven into hiding. Their one hope is an old friend, his mother, and the king they both serve. But how to find them...
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English
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These real-life stories relate terrifying brushes with the unspeakable things that stalk our nightmares. Included are harrowing accounts of reincarnation; haunted dwellings; the dangers of attempting to contact the spirit world; spectral animals; a cursed Hollywood landmark; a suspected portal to the netherworld; and much, much more. As you explore these pages, be prepared to have your spine tingled by these Chilling Tales From The Shadowlands.
11) Finding Kyle
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English
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When you've lived your life as a criminal...When you've done unspeakable things...When your soul has become dark and stained.... The path to redemption begins where you least expect it.
Kyle Sommerville is in hiding and doesn't want to be found by anyone. Certainly not by his quirky, free-spirited neighbor who's managed to push her way past the walls he's built around him. But Jane Cresson's indomitable will and insatiable curiosity about her reclusive...
12) 1996
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English
Description
Sara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions - about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity...
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English
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Three girls taken from their neighborhoods for no reason. Snatched up and carried to a faraway place. What happens to them, you might ask? Well, the things of nightmares of course. Unspeakable things. This story will take you to depths of darkness that you never thought possible. Old rickety stairs, Alice in Wonderland type doors in the middle of nowhere. Let me taken you on an adventure that begins with an innocent girl and the terrifying world that...
14) Locked in
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Series
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English
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From the bestselling author of “Hey, Brown Girl”, comes part three of a twisty, suspense-filled young adult series about grief and family with a morally gray character on the road to redemption.
Sometimes the Big Bad Wolf is you...
Still reeling from the death of her beloved Ez, Indigo Lewis throws herself into her work as an intern at Synergy Publishing House. Yet when a challenging co-worker, Bryce Fuller, begins threatening her family and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A fifth-grader whose best friends walked away, whose mother is detached, and whose father does unspeakable things, copes with the help of friend Sofie and anonymous letters tied to balloons and released. Includes a list of resources related to abuse, gender, sexuality, and more.
16) The resort
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English
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Bram Stoker award-winner Bentley Little cordially invites you to The Resort.
Welcome to The Reata, an exclusive spa isolated in the Arizona desert. Please ignore the strange employees and that unspeakable thing in the pool. And when guests start disappearing, pretend it isn't happening. Enjoy your stay, and relax. Oh...and lock yourself in after dark.
Opulent doesn't begin to describe the Arizona getaway where Lowell Thurman, his wife Rachel, and...
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Series
My very unfairy tale life series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
You think a trip to Fairy Land sounds fun? Clearly you've never been turned into a mouse by an Evil Queen. This. Is. It. My most important mission as a magical adventurer ever. And probably my last. 'Cause I'm pretty sure if I defy the council and travel to Fairy Land to rescue my parents, I'm so fired. They say it's too dangerous. That the Queen Fairy is crazy, and she's hoarding all the magic to do unspeakable things (like steal the leprechauns'...
18) Savage Woods
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English
Description
Bram Stoker award-nominated author Mary SanGiovanni returns with a terrifying tale of madness, murder, and mind-shattering evil...
Nilhollow-six-hundred-plus acres of haunted woods in New Jersey's Pine Barrens-is the stuff of urban legend. Amid tales of tree spirits and all-powerful forest gods are frightening accounts of hikers who went insane right before taking their own lives. It is here that Julia Russo flees when her violent ex-boyfriend runs...
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English
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Warriors are never victims!
What if you were a highly sensitive, super magical kid plunked down into a world of violence, sex, and danger? In this world of upside-down, nothing feels real. Everything hurts, and no one is to be trusted.
What is love? What is family? Who am I?
Amidst the violence, June finds herself slipping in and out of time. After a particularly brutal encounter, something happens. June awakens, curled on the ground, wet and alone...
20) Queen Mother
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English
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Zephora had always been the one to know when things were to come. She'd had the ability of foresight for as long as she could remember. Her role as Queen Mother has been one used to guide others and to protect her people. She has suffered great losses, but has dealt with them and persevered. At least that is what she thought.
You get two novellas in one book.
Finding out the two boys that were stolen from her at such a young and impressionable age...