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The Lightning Thief
09 $A story about a troubled young boy who finds out his father is a Greek god, making him a demigod. He and his friends are given the task of finding and returning Zeus’s lightning bolt as monsters from the Underworld attempt to stop them.
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The Locked Door
09 $While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence.
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The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner
09 $A character study of a troubled young man from a bleak area of northern England who is sent to a juvenile detention center for the crime of stealing from a bakery.
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The Long Haul
08 $Susan Heffley forces her family onto a disastrous road trip, turning Greg’s summer of leisure into a chaotic, comedy-filled nightmare.
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The Lost Symbol
09 $Follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he’s drawn into a dangerous conspiracy in Washington, D.C. Summoned to give a lecture, he finds his mentor, Peter Solomon, kidnapped and a cryptic invitation left behind. Langdon must decipher Masonic symbols and navigate a world of hidden history to save Solomon and uncover a long-lost secret.
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The Lovely Bones
09 $It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from a personal heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death.
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The Maidens
020 $Our heroine Mariana is a grieving widow and group therapist who cares deeply for her niece, Zoe. So when one of Zoe’s friends is murdered, Mariana travels to Cambridge to support her—and to prove the guilt of Edward Fosca, the enigmatic professor who seems to have captured the admiration of everyone but Mariana.
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The Maidens
09 $A psychological thriller about Mariana Andros, a grieving group therapist who travels to Cambridge University to help her niece, Zoe, after her friend Tara is murdered.
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The Maze Runner
09 $A dystopian novel about Thomas, a boy who wakes up with no memories in “the Glade,” a community of boys trapped in a shifting, dangerous maze. Along with Teresa, the first girl to arrive, they must solve the maze to escape the monstrous Grievers and uncover a truth about a global apocalypse.
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The Meltdown
08 $A massive snow day shuts down school, transforming Greg Heffley’s neighborhood into a chaotic winter battlefield.
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
015 $The murder victim, a wealthy widower who is stabbed to death in his study. Ackroyd was engaged to the recently deceased Mrs. Ferrars and received a letter from her just before his death. His murder sets the entire mystery in motion and uncovering the truth about his death drives the plot.
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The Perfect Son
09 $A high school girl has vanished from Erika’s quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst–murder. And Erika’s teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child.