Eileen Frances Stevens
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
After being hospitalized for insisting that her mother was murdered, not killed in an accidental fire, Grace goes to live with her grandfather for a fresh start, but when she sees her mothers murderer again, her past comes back to haunt her.
2) Everless
Author
Series
Everless volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
In the kingdom of Sempera, time is extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocrats like the Gerling family tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember; she and her father were once servants at their estate, Everless, until an accident drove them away. After discovering her father is dying, Jules is desperate to earn more...
3) Small Fry
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
4) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
5) Evermore
Author
Series
Everless volume 002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Jules Ember was raised hearing legends of the ancient magic of the wicked Alchemist and the good Sorceress. But she has just learned the truth: She is the Alchemist, and Caro-a woman who single-handedly murdered the Queen and Juless first love, Roan, in cold blood-is the Sorceress. The whole kingdom believes that Jules is responsible for the murders, and a hefty bounty has been placed on her head. And Caro is intent on destroying Jules, who stole...
Author
Series
Circle of shadows volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
While on a scouting mission, apprentice warriors Sora and Daemon uncover evidence that Prince Gin, who attempted to rebel against the kingdom and sacrifice its citizens to the gods, may still be alive.
Author
Series
Circle of shadows volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
"After the devastating Ceremony of Two Hundred Hearts, Sora, Daemon, Fairy, and Broomstick are truly alone in the fight to save their kingdom. Empress Aki is missing, and everyone else who could help them is a prisoner to Prince Gin’s mind control. At least Sora understands what they’re up against. Or so she believes, until she overhears Gin bargaining with the god of war for immortality and learns that ryuu magic may be a more insidious danger...
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Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The New York Times * New York Magazine * Lit Hub * TIME * O, the Oprah Magazine * Good Housekeeping
Two generations of an American family come of age-one before 9/11, one after-in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell Zink
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together...
Author
Description
When Grace's husband announces he wants a divorce, she packs up her tattered heart and travels to Paris alone, determined to have the holiday of a lifetime. When she meets her rebellious teenage neighbor, Audrey, they forge an unlikely friendship. Grace can't believe how audacious Audrey is. Audrey can't believe how cautious newly single Grace is! They're both in Paris to find themselves, but finding each other might be the best thing that's ever...
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Digging up lost secrets is always dangerous.For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest. But the truth has only made her a target. And the past? The only way to put the past to rest is for Grace to kill it once and for all. On Embassy Row, power can...
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Desperate to protect her younger brother Jamie, Grace Blakely, her brother, and her friend Alexei are on the run from the forces in Adria who threaten them because Jamie is the true heir to the throne--but it is hard to hide from Prime Minister Alexandra Petrovic and the the secret society that is part of Grace's family heritage, and even harder to know who to trust.
12) The Black Coats
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Austin, Texas, high school junior and talented runner Thea Soloman is still grieving after the murder of her cousin and best friend, Natalie. When Thea is invited to join a secret group called the Black Coats, she finds new meaning. Thea and her teammates are trained to take vengeance on men who have wronged women and gotten away with it, with the promise of exacting revenge of their own. Thea becomes consumed by the Black Coats and also finds love...
14) Dark Rooms
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"[M]urder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school"--
"Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed. Dropping out of college and living at home,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco, auditioning on a stage surrounded by mirrors, in platform heels, and not much else. So began Jenny's career as a stripper strutting the peepshow stage as her alter-ego "Polly" alongside women called Octopussy and Amnesia. But this wasn't your run-of-the-mill strip club--it was a peepshow populated by free-thinking...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A novel set against the backdrop of the chaotic spring of 2020 intimately explores a fractured marriage and the struggles of modern parenthood.
Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family and flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary--from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic and her faltering marriage. Putting distance between herself...
17) To Be Honest
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Savannah's mother has become overbearing regarding weight and body image. Meanwhile, Savannah meets the cute new guy at school, who has insecurities of his own.
18) Remember me
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Nell Martin is moving again, this time to the Winslow Grand Hotel, built in 1878. As Nell is settling in, strange things begin to happen. Doors lock of their own accord, writing appears on bathroom walls, and most horrifying of all, visions of a dead boy permeate her waking life. Thinking it's her mind playing tricks on her, she soon finds the past and present colliding as she learns horrific details of a murder which took place at the hotel in 1907...