Naked Eye

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AuthorKathryn Reiss
2.5 stars

I bought this book from the Scholastic Book Fair when I was 9 and remember reading it and loving it as a kid... so there’s 20 years of nostalgia attached to this book. Unfortunately, it didn’t really age well for me. Rereading it at 29, I found there was a lot of dated references and...
AuthorCatherine Jinks
ISBN0763636509
Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.

Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's...
AuthorTom Holt
ISBN1841495034
It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire, and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together. Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank...
AuthorMolly Jong-Fast
ISBN0345501896
HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
 
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled...
AuthorSuzanne Forster
ISBN0778324265
Alison Fairmont Villard wakes in a hospital bed with a face
she doesn't recognize and a husband she doesn't know.
Andrew Villard, a self-made millionaire, has a bright future but
a shadowy past. When he tells Alison the details of their life
together, she has no choice but to believe...
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0933756097
TL;DR: 5 stars, one of the two best non-series Wodehouse I've read to date.

This was the perfect choice for the day. It's been far too long since I read some Wodehouse and Company for Henry has all the best Wodehouse tropes. Aunts and Uncles, Country Houses, poor relations, people engaged to the...
AuthorLynn Edelman Schnurnberger
From Lynn Schnurnberger, bestselling co-author of Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries, comes a novel of big secrets, family ties, and a reminder that sometimes The Best Laid Plans can lead to delightful surprises.

Tru Newman is one of the Upper East Side “M&Ms”—the wealthy...
AuthorK.M. Ruiz
ISBN0312673175
The first in an exciting new sci-fi series that’s being described as Blade Runner meets X-Men

Two hundred and fifty years after the world was nearly wiped out by nuclear war, what’s left of society fights over the scraps of the Earth as the rich and powerful plan to ascend in secret to another...
AuthorMichael Gerber
ISBN0786838515

Hart Fox may not have the pedigree to be a shoo-in at Stutts, a prestigious Ivy League school, but he has the grades and the rsum. And he does make it in-sort of. His acceptance is hijacked by Burlington Darling III, a wealthy alum who is so desperate to get his hapless son, Trip, into Stutts that he funds...
AuthorTim Green
ISBN0446401501
Readers last saw Casey Jordan in The Letter of the Law, where she defended her law professor for the grisly murder of a student only to discover he was guilty. After, Casey left her high-powered practice and wealthy husband and opened a legal aid clinic.When an illegal Mexican immigrant is shot on a ranch...
Fugitive
AuthorChristine Harris
ISBN0439761263
If you make the wrong choice, you die.

Jesse is on assignment again, to track down and bring into C2 headquarters a man called Ari. Why is C2 so desperate to find this man? How will Jesse seize him when he is protected day and night by a clever, ruthless professional killer? What is Ari's connection...
AuthorPeg Kehret
ISBN0525477284
When a pig falls from a truck and the driver doesn't stop, Alex saves the frightened animal and gets permission to keep it. Then the belligerent truck driver shows up at Alex's doorstep, determined to reclaim the pig. Alex's parents turn him away, but Alex worries that he'll be back. In the man's truck,...
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0439553970
When you make a deal with a vampire, there's no chance to change your mind. Or is there?

Lacey and her friends just want some fun. And what could be more fun than spending the night in a creepy old house? Especially a creepy old house with a strange circular tower? It's all just harmless fun, right?...
AuthorWillo Davis Roberts
ISBN0689844468
Perhaps I would have really enjoyed this book when if I had read it when I was younger, because according to the back it's meant for ages 8-12...and I'm not surprised. I found it lying on the radiator in the back of the classroom and picked it up, seeing as I didn't have anything else to read during advisory....
AuthorLiz Ruckdeschel
ISBN0385735014
In What If. . . You Broke All the Rules, Haley will turn 16 on Valentine's Day. But there won't be any big parties or celebrations to mark the occasion—her parents are so distracted by their own lives that they forget her birthday. Haley's dad is absorbed in finishing his documentary, and Haley's mom...
The Devil's Breath
AuthorDavid Gilman
WHEN AN ASSASSIN bursts from the shadows to try to kill him on the dark, windswept grounds of his boarding school in England, Max Gordon realizes his life is about to change forever.

After learning that his explorer father is missing, Max is determined to find him, no matter what dangers may lay...
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