Eileen Stevens
2) Evermore
Author
Series
Everless volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Jules delves into the stories of her own past to clear herself of murder charges and uncover clues about the girl who is both her oldest friend and greatest enemy.
The legends speak of the ancient magic of the wicked Alchemist and the good Sorceress. But Jules Ember has learned the truth: She is the Alchemist, and Caro-- a woman who single-handedly murdered the Queen and Jules's first love, Roan, in cold blood-- is the Sorceress. The kingdom believes...
3) Small fry
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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'
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked... until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself...
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"In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails...
6) 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...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
©2022.
Description
"Jamie is a Florida Woman. She grew up on the beach, thrives in humidity, has weathered more hurricanes than she can count, and now, after going viral for an outrageous crime she never meant to commit in the first place, she has the requisite headline to her name. But when the chance comes for her to escape viral infamy and imminent jail time by taking a community service placement at Atlas, a shelter for rescued monkeys, it seems like just the fresh...
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay.
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
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 secret society that is part of Grace's family heritage, and even harder to know who to trust.
Author
Series
Circle of shadows volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with an arm tied around his back. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas--marked by the gods to be trained in magic and the fighting arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona. As their graduation approaches, Sora and Daemon look forward to proving themselves worthy of belonging in the elite...
11) The Black Coats
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Pulled back into her past when a posthumous work needs a publisher, reconnecting her with an old friend, successful book editor and new mom Emily is forced to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and what kind of creative life she wants to lead.
13) Dark rooms
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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,...
14) Cloak of night
Author
Series
Circle of shadows volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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 than...
15) Wait for it
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"A woman looking for a new lease on life moves to Arizona where she rents a guest house on a gorgeous property with a mysterious owner-a man who teaches her about resilience, courage, and ultimately true love, in this funny, bighearted novel about hope and healing. Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life. She's not even thirty years old, twice-divorced, and has just dodged a...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Callie Holt, with her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded, turns to her phone, sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong, in this darkly humorous novel exploring millennial wedding culture, class and relationships told through a social media lens.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Do the mistakes of the past mark us as guilty for life? After a childhood marred by neglect, Jessie Duval's finally got it together. With an apartment in Nashville and a job with a catering company, she's thriving. But all that changes when Jessie works an event where celebrities will be in attendance--including the one person from her past she must avoid at all costs: singer Shelly James. Jessie doesn't hate Shelly. Quite the opposite. One summer,...
19) See how they run
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Grace Blakely believed that finding the truth about her mother's murder would finally give her peace, but now she knows that it is only the beginning of the secrets that will dominate her life--and make her a target on Embassy Row in Adria.
20) Wilder girls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange...