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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called 'Seller of Dreams.' The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir--furious enough to hire assassins. Monkey decides to try and save Samir from the...
2) Remedy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
A girl who has been struggling with inexplicable poor health her entire life becomes the focal point of her mother's increasingly suspicious online funding campaign for medical expenses.
It feels like Cara has been sick all her life, but she and her mom have never stayed in one place long enough for doctors to really understand what is happening to her. Now, at fourteen, Cara is tired of being tired, and sick of being sick. And it's only getting...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic.
Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief, who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark yet--the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world. But she isn't interested in stealing from wealthy first-class passengers onboard. No, she's out for the...
4) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, and they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work. Book #2.
5) Swindle
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Adele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors. Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new friends do so with dark intentions. After a violent assault,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game to his own advantage, how his background-murdered drug dealer dad, single cash-strapped mom, best friend serving time for gang activity-becomes a key to doors he didn't even know existed. This kind of story, molded in the right way, is just what college admissions committees are looking for, and a full academic scholarship to a prestigious university...