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Secrets she left behind Secrets she left behind Diane Chamberlain One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store--and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenaged son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets.Keith W… OL14961077W
Me, Penelope Me, Penelope Lisa Jahn-Clough “Penelope Yeager is like a lot of sixteen-year-olds—she wants more independence from her crazy mother; she wants to get her driver’s license; and she wants to get out of high school, away from her to… OL15205942W
Chime Chime Franny Billingsley In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, Wales, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury… OL15601920W
The killer's cousin The killer's cousin Nancy Werlin After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange y… OL15604463W
Transgressions (The Things They Left Behind / Ransome Women) Transgressions (The Things They Left Behind / Ransome Women) Stephen King,John Farris The Ransome Women by John Farris: A psychological thriller that questions the role beauty plays in society and the cult of celebrity. A young and beautiful, starving artist catches a break when her i… OL15857830W
Insight Insight Diana Greenwood After ten-year-old Elvira's father goes missing in World War II and her mother gives birth to a daughter who is a seer, the family leaves their rural Wisconsin home, along with Elvira's cantankerous … OL16125986W
Moonglass Moonglass Jessi Kirby At age seven, Anna watched her mother walk into the surf and drown, but nine years later, when she moves with her father to the beach where her parents fell in love, she joins the cross-country team,… OL16139920W
The starboard sea The starboard sea Amber Dermont Devastated by the suicide of his prep-school roommate and disdaining the trappings of his affluent Manhattan life, Jason transfers to another school and bonds with a troubled classmate whose subseque… OL16215444W
Blink and Caution Blink and Caution Tim Wynne-Jones Blink, man, what were you thinking? Sneaking into the hotel for a hot breakfast? Hot scraps of someone else's breakfast, really. Couldn't you just feel that it was a wrong place/wrong time scenario? … OL16482249W
Transgressions Transgressions Lawrence Block,Stephen King,Ed McBain,Donald E. Westlake,John Farris,Jeffery Deaver,Anne Perry,Walter Mosley,Joyce Carol Oates,Sharyn McCrumb Contains: Walking around money / by Donald Westlake Hostages / by Anne Perry The corn maiden / by Joyce Carol Oates Archibald lawless, anarchist at large / by Walter Mosley The resurrection … OL16482733W
Pacazo Pacazo Roy Kesey First Edition OL16799411W
Leap Of Faith Leap Of Faith Anne E. Schraff The robberies in the barrio are becoming increasingly bold and unsettling. After a recent robbery, Ernesto swears that he recognizes the suspect fleeing the crime scene. But is he jumping to conclusi… OL17408254W
Just What Kind Of Mother Are You Just What Kind Of Mother Are You Paula Daly,Paula Daly Lisa is an overwhelmed and exhausted mother of three. So she completely forgets that her daughter's friend was supposed to sleep over--until she finds out the girl has gone missing. OL17433265W
Never ending Never ending Martyn Bedford Traumatized by grief and guilt after her younger brother dies during a family vacation, fifteen-year-old Shiv is sent away to an exclusive clinic that claims to "cure" people like her. OL17658831W
Ketchup clouds Ketchup clouds Annabel Pitcher Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her fam… OL17823673W
Second life Second life Paul Griner "Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies. Elena Kelly is a body broker or "corpse wrangler," one of the best in… OL17868125W
All the winters after All the winters after Sere Prince Halverson Kachemak Winkel's mother used to tell him that Alaska doesn't forgive mistakes. A lot of mistakes were made the day she died in a plane crash with Kache's father and brother-- and Kache still feels r… OL17932740W
The edge of falling The edge of falling Rebecca Serle Caggie's life of privilege in Manhattan appears near-perfect but blaming herself for her younger sister's death and being acclaimed for saving a classmate from suicide cause her to withdraw from frie… OL17937308W
Courtyard cat Courtyard cat C. S. Adler Eleven-year-old Lindsay blames herself for the accident to her brother which forced her family to move to a city where she feels uncomfortable and friendless. OL1845891W
If there's no tomorrow If there's no tomorrow Jennifer L. Armentrout Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let he… OL19720992W
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