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It's the storm of the century and Scotty, Pete & Jason make the wrong decision to stay in school even though there was an early dismissal. They end up being 3 of the 7 students and one teacher that are left behind as the snow piles outside. Soon it becomes apparent that they're going to spend the night in their dark high school, which, is like my worst nightmare.Scotty and his friends Pete and Jason are among the last seven kids at their high school waiting to get picked up that day, and they soon realize that no one is coming for them. Still, it doesn't seem so bad to spend the night at school, especially when distractingly hot Krista and Julie are sleeping just down the hall. But then the power goes out, then the heat. The pipes freeze, and the roof shudders. As the days add up, the snow piles higher, and the empty halls grow colder and darker, the mounting pressure forces a devastating decision. . .
It's Halloween, and Piper is busy decorating the Manor, which has become the neighborhood hot spot on the most bewitching night of the year. Meanwhile, Paige decides to use the party as a chance to honor the dead. She casts a spell that creates a portal for a clan of leprechauns...and other wandering spirits.
The guests are thrilled and impressed with the realistic effects, but Phoebe, Piper, and Paige soon realize that they have a big trick to deal with: one not-so-friendly ghost going out of his way to turn the Manor into a haunted house.
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 3/21/11New York City's spirit has been crushed. People walk the streets with their heads down, withdrawing from each other and into the cold comfort of technology.
Teenagers Mal and Laura have grown up in this reality. They've never met.
But on the same day Mal learns his brother has disappeared, Laura discovers her parents have forgotten her. Both begin a search for their families that leads them to the same truth: someone or something has wiped the teens from the memories of every person they have ever known. Thrown together, Mal and Laura must find common ground as they attempt to reclaim their pasts.
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| Bedford Branch of BPL |
Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she escapes her fate--for a week. Disguised as a peasant, she attends the village school as the smart new girl, "Pat," and attracts friends and the attention of the handsome schoolmaster.
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy Davis abruptly quits law school and flees Chicago for her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi. In search of peace and quiet, Jiminy instead stumbles upon more trouble and turmoil than she ever knew existed.
She is shocked to discover there was once another Jiminy - the daughter of her grandmother's longtime housekeeper, Lyn - who was murdered along with Lyn's husband four decades earlier in a civil rights-era hate crime. With the help of Lyn's nephew Bo, Jiminy sets out to solve the long-ago murder, to the dismay of those who would prefer to let sleeping dogs lie.
I read a lot of Suspense Thrillers. Not lately, since I've been checking out some other genres, but I'd say they take up the majority of my "Read" Bookshelf. The thing that grinds my gears about them sometimes is the obligatory love/lust story. Listen, if I wanted to read a romance novel, I would not be reading a hardcore suspense thriller, James Patterson. Alex Cross does not have to sleep with someone in every book for cryin' out loud. (I'm about 3 books through the series, but he does it in other books too!!!)
The last amazing suspense thriller I read was The Running Man by Richard Bachman (Stephen King). This is a good example of one that does the love story in the right way. Bachman made it clear in the first few pages that the main character needed to support his family and it was his deep love for them that drove him to make the decisions he made in the novel. Not some lusty hotel affair that doesn't drive the plot at all! Sheesh!
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