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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: For seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the basement of the manor house, fitted out with rugs, books,...
122) Excavations: a novel
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"At home in Seoul, former journalist Sae, is waiting with two clingy toddlers for her husband to come home from work. He has never been this late before. Her children are crying, and Sae, exhausted and anxious, turns on the TV to distract herself. She clicks to the news, which shows a horrific disaster, the collapse of a massive skyscraper where Jae was an engineer. Minutes, then hours, and then days pass. No one has seen Jae, but things aren't adding...
Author
Series
Promise Falls volume 2
Formats
Description
"When private investigator Cal Weaver looks into a break-in at the home of a recently deceased man, he uncovers far more than he is prepared for after he finds a hidden room in the basement. All evidence points to the room being used for salacious activity. Perhaps something illegal. He also finds that a cache of DVDs has been stolen from the room and soon realizes it may not be discs the thief was actually interested in. But there is something even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Case in point: Piper Prescott's former mother-in-law Melly. Beneath her twin sets and pearls beats the heart of a geek--a geek whose programming changes for the point-of-sale software in Piper's shop have the owners of the program ready to make her an offer she can't refuse. "Trusty" Rusty Tulley and Chip Balboa swing by Brandywine Creek--just in time for the town's annual Oktoberfest, which has cinnamon,...
125) Shelby
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Christmas is coming, and notorious stray pup/escape artist Shelby is once again locked up in the dog pound. But when a spoiled rich kid tries to adopt him for all the wrong reasons, Shelby runs away and hides in the suburban basement of ten-year-old aspiring magician Jake Parker. Now with the frazzled local dogcatcher hot on their tail, can Jake, his siblings and their visiting grandpa, pull off the ultimate magic trick and rescue Shelby, making him...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"On a hot, hazy summer day, Sarabeth is forced to work her family's farmstand in Arkansas. It was only recently that Sarabeth had a normal teenage life in town, able to see her friends, starting to date--but that was before her parents found God and moved her and her siblings to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Now she has to wear long dresses even in the blistering heat, can't cut her hair, and can't spend time with anyone her age. Sarabeth has become...
127) Boomer1
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Daniel Torday is a two-time National Jewish Book Award recipient and winner of the 2017 Sami Rohr Choice Award for The Last Flight of Poxl West. Torday's work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, The Paris Review Daily, Esquire, The Kenyon Review, and Tin House, and has been honored in both the Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays series. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College."--
""Torday is a singular American...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Go eat worms: They're creepy and they're crawly, they're totally disgusting! Obsessed with worms? That's putting it mildly. Todd is so fascinated with worms, he keeps a worm farm in his basement! Most of all, Todd loves torturing his sister and her best friend with worms. Dropping them in their hair. Down their backs. Until one day, after cutting a worm in half, Todd notices something strange. The rest of the worms seem to be staring at him! Suddenly...
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When the lights go out at the Loud House during a storm, it is up to the kids to keep themselves entertained. Join Lincoln Loud and his sisters Lily, Lisa, Lana, Lola, Lucy, Lynn, Lola, Luan, Luna, Leni and Lori as they tell tales to astonish (OMGosh!), tales from the crypt (or the creepy basement), tales of the city (family friends Bobby and Ronnie Anne's city, that is), and finally, bedtime tales.
131) Love covers
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The town of Greenlock has shunned Lauren, the daughter of the local mortician, who has begrudgingly taken over her fathers duties. Day after day the work creates loneliness in her tender heart that spurs despondence. Then a voice speaks from the morgue basement. A rough and tumble outlaw whos supposed to be dead is still alive! For some unfathomable reason, Lauren agrees to help him stay dead.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Now married with a baby, Joe and Love have moved to a privileged Northern California enclave. Joe tries to commit to his new life but fears Love's lethal impulsiveness... and the woman he's always wanted might be living right next door. Breaking out of a basement cage is one thing, Escaping the prison of this picture perfect marriage may prove to be far more complicated.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies. Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped ot his belt. Into their life of 'users, ' pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a spunky can-do career gal who doesn't know one end of a laptop from another. Now Jen will introduce real life to the guys who...
134) The least among you
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Arrested in the 1965 Watts riots, Richard Kelly (Cedric Sanders) must serve probation at an all-white seminary. Although encouraged to break racial boundaries by its president Alan Beckett (William Devane), the school wants black followers, not leaders. Even former missionary Kate Allison (Lauren Holly) initially rejects Richard. With a prison sentence looming, Ricahrd meets Samuel Benton (Louis Gossett, Jr.)- "the gardener in the basement." As Samuel...
135) If walls could talk
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After a heavy rain, Anne discovers that one of the walls in the library basement is crumbling. She asks Alex to evaluate the damage, but while they're examining the hole, they uncover a human skeleton! Her beloved Aunt Edie's bow and arrow is found hidden nearby. Surely her relative had nothing to do with this person's death, did she? Meanwhile, Anne stumbles on a flyer for the church's father-son retreat in Ben's trash and is determined to find a...
Author
Series
Pizza and Taco volume 6
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"To prove it, they have a dare-to-be-scared challenge. Dark closets and creepy basements are no biggies ... right?! But are they ready for the ultimate test--Ghost Pepper hunting?
In a graveyard?!"
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn't over yet. Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and...
138) The black phone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
139) The black phone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
140) We lie here
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"TV writer Yara Gibson's hometown of Palmdale, California, isn't her first choice for a vacation. But she's back to host her parents' twentieth-anniversary party and find the perfect family mementos for the celebration. Everything is going to plan until Yara receives a disturbing text: I have information that will change your life. The message is from Felicia Campbell, who claims to be a childhood friend of Yara's mother. But they've been estranged...
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