Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When disturbing images keep appearing in Tai's camera lens, Trey and Tai reignite their search for their mother, who mysteriously disappeared 10 years earlier, uncovering strange secrets about their magical ancestors and a threat to their very existence.
Author
Language
English
Description
Why is the Splintered Canyon gang out to kill Frank Slessor? And why does he take no interest in the fact? Luckily, his old friend Jet Barclay finds him first, seeking his help to tame the rowdy township of Wind Creek and as they ride together, they find that their respective stories converge. Ral Craven, the outlaw leader, is attempting to take over the local cattle shipment business and is making use of the T Bench ranch run by the mysterious Miss...
Author
Language
English
Description
As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But, when a local landowner asks him to value a 400-year-old journal and is then brutally murdered twelve hours later, Harry begins to suspect he's being pulled into something sinister. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life and death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune for it? He turns to marine historian Zola Kahn to uncover...
Author
Language
English
Description
So I forgot to update my phone. Big deal. Only there's a glitch and an app opens a portal to another planet! Because that makes sense.
Now I'm stuck on an alien planet with a grumpy prince. His eyes turn black when he's upset. He can manipulate the shadows and grow a pair of massive inky wings. I mean, sure, he's hot, and he saved me from a pack of monsters, but I don't trust anything about this place, let alone a surly alien.
I'm going to find a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Can dreams come true when you're living with a family curse? 2000-New York, New York Twins Trey and Tai are not like other high schoolers. Besides his crushing lack of popularity, Trey struggles to suppress his surging magical abilities that continually impede his dream of making first chair cello in orchestra. A budding photographer, Tai just wants to take beautiful pictures and find a girlfriend, maybe the new first chair and Trey's rival, Ayesha....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A companion collection to the New York Times Bestselling young adult series containing three stories about a teenaged ancestor of Alice in Wonderland.
Alyssa Gardner went down the rabbit hole and took control of her destiny. She survived the battle for Wonderland and the battle for her heart. In this collection of three novellas, join Alyssa and her family as they look back at their memories of Wonderland. In Six Impossible Things, Alyssa recalls...
Author
Language
English
Description
A smashing debut collection from award-winning filmmaker Lulu Keating
Splinter & Shard is the debut story collection by acclaimed filmmaker-turned-writer Lulu Keating. Vivid and precise, the stories in this collection offer an uncompromising journey into what it means to be human.
Keating catches her characters at their pivotal moments of discovery, self-reckoning, and change. A dutiful mother of grown children learns a life-shattering secret...
8) Splintering
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the remarkable author of YOU REMIND ME OF YOU, a searing novel in poems about a family falling apart.
It's about the aftermath. It's about what happens after a stranger breaks into a house and attacks a family. It's about the sisters who must barricade themselves behind a splintering door while tethered on the phone to 911. It's about the father who nearly dies. It's about the son who hides. And everything after. Told in alternating...
9) Splinter
Author
Language
English
Description
This Is The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Reborn… In a small town hidden behind the hills of New York, things are far from ordinary. As Sleepy Hollow's youngest Medical Examiner, the pressure intensifies for Dr. Drusilla Van Tassel when the headless bodies of her sister Katrina's friends start surfacing. Meanwhile, Drusilla's ex-lover Ichabod Crane returns to town, dredging up feelings better left buried. Things take a turn for the worst when Drusilla...
10) Splinter: Poems
Author
Language
English
Description
On a collective level, the human diaspora is incalculable. Our leaving and resettling are as ancient as we are, whether immigrant, refugee, exile, or pioneer. In Splinter, Susan O'Dell Underwood's poems trace the unique experiences of the Appalachian diaspora. Splinter suggests the deep ambivalence in the breaking away, a sundering which can never be mended. These poems test the emotional spectrum, weighing the joyful possibilities and sorrows of...
11) Splinter
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the murder of his family, John becomes a recluse, trapped inside his home. Surrounded by memories, he believes someone, or something, is watching him. Could it be the ghosts of his wife and son, or something far worse?
12) Splinter's Edge
Author
Language
English
Description
THE UNIVERSE IS TRYING TO KILL HIM Lahn just wants to ignore the world, build some code with his AI, and hide from the starless green sky. But when horrible visions of future-tech destruction invade his carefully curated calm, he will have to risk his life and fight his fears to find out if the visions are real, or a product of his own depersonalization.If the visions are real, everyone's at risk, especially those he loves most. And no one but Lahn...
Author
Language
English
Description
The fight against the Dominion has never been simple. Or convenient. Or easy. But it has changed.
Kyle Griffin and his Infinity team made sure of that.
After the assault on Aeron's palace, the galaxy suddenly seems turned upside down. The Splinter revolution is no longer an afterthought. Poised to make their first true push toward overthrowing the established order, Commander Griffin takes the reigns of an eager and burgeoning army, leading them into...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials-a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence-perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mr. Mittens is on the prowl. Something is hunting his charge, and he must find it before it gets to her. As the clock rushes towards Christmas, can he find the creature before it finds Brigid? Ragdoll cats aren't really known for their fierce natures, but luckily, this one has a killer secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
Did you know that one of the disciples of Jesus was a clown? An ancient document has been recovered and a new Gospel is now available! The author of this gospel is the clown himself. He was called "Splinter" - a name given to him by Christ. Splinter traveled with Jesus and saw and heard all the wonderful things that Jesus did. The Gospel According to Splinter is his memories and favorite stories. In this gospel, Splinter features regularly. He bungles...
Author
Language
English
Description
The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, pose an increasingly desperate question about what it means to be a girl, the ways girls are shaped by the world, as well as the role myth plays in this coming of age quest. Wilson, an afakasi Samoan poet, divides the book into three sections, linking the poems in each section by titles. In this...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story behind the Book of Acts has never been told in such a way before. Full of poetry, skits, mimes, jokes and riddles, magic tricks and juggling - it is still very much a clear and detailed retelling of the Book of Acts. All these features of this historical fiction add color and laughter to this wonderful story.The book has a clown disciple of Jesus now travelling with Peter and Paul. "Splinter" the clown, records the events he witnesses through...
Author
Language
English
Description
For many, video games are like magic. They hide in the dark and then appear from nowhere, fully formed. Based on over a dozen firsthand interviews that cover genre-defining games and the titles that inspired them - Metal Gear Solid, Thief, Deus Ex, Dishonored, Assassin's Creed, Hitman, Splinter Cell, Prey, The Last of Us Part II, and more - this book shines a flashlight into the shadowy corners of game development history, uncovering the untold stories...