The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
Bantam Books, Incorporated
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His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is racing for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspirators - led by Carlos, the world's most dangerous assassin. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer may kill him.
Attica - Garry Kilworth
Little, Brown and Company US
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Jordy, Chloe, and Alex have moved to a new house in a new town. Both seem perfectly ordinary, verging on the dull, but their new landlord, Mr. Grantham, has a spectacular secret...
Before long, our intrepid heroes embark on a quest beneath the rafters of their new home. However, what they discover is no ordinary attic. It is a world of lost treasures and discarded dreams; amazing visions and deadly traps; monsters and magical masks. For everything can be found in the attic - and everything is there for a reason.
The Lightning Thief - by Rick Riordan
April 15, 2006
Hyperion Books
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Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school... again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. but to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
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Prowlers: Wild Things - by Christopher Golden
April 2, 2002
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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A series of mysterious deaths leads Jack Dwyer and Molly Hatcher to the fastlanes, rest stops, and all-night diners of a highway in upstate New York. Meanwhile, their friend Bill Cantwell heads to Manhatten in search of his missing niece, a fledging musician with lots of attitude. Back in Boston, Jack's sister, Courtney, is left to hold the fort.
But Jasmine, the sultry Prowler who barely survived her run-in with them in Boston, has begun to build a new pack in New York. When Bill probes the Prowler underground, he finds old friends, secret alliances, and betrayal, and his predicament draws Courtney away from Boston on a quest to make sure the man she loves gets home safely.
To the north, Jack and Molly uncover the truth - that the pack has grown larger than they could ever have realized. With Prowlers all around them, they must reach out to all of their allies, dead or alive, if they are to save Bill and Courtney and survive the final conflict with Jasmine.
Prowlers: Predator and Prey - by Christopher Golden
November 27, 2001
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Jack Dwyer can see dead people, and they can see him. In fact, he has made a regular practice of communicating with his dead friend Artie from the Ghostlands, where Artie's spirit wonders. Artie helps keep Jack apprised of Prowler activity, and Jack, along with his sister, Courtney, and their friends, tacks these violent killers down and stops them.
Artie's latest piece of information is startling: a vicious beast known as the Ravenous is stalking the Ghostlands. It's Jack's turn to help the endangered spirits - without endagering himself. He's got some help from a woman who is not quite as young a she seems - but the Ravenous has got his scent.
Meanwhile Jasmine, pack leader and dangerous hunter, has issued a hit on Jack and his friends. But if he consults his allies in the Ghostlands for help, Jack will attract the Ravenous. It's a double-edged sword - and Jack's not sure he can avoid being cut...
Prowlers: Laws of Nature - by Christopher Golden
July 31, 2001
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Jack Dwyer defeated the pack of Prowlers who had preyed upon the city of Boston with their leader, Owen Tanzer. Tanzer may be gone, but now that Jack is aware of their existence, he is on a constant lookout for evidence of Powler presence elsewhere. So when his sister, Courtney, and her friend Bill uncover reports of vicious animal attacks in rural Buckton, Vermont, his suspicions are aroused. Messages from the Ghost lands confirm the worst, and Jack and Molly - whose feelings for each other are growing harder to ignore - head for the mountains.
Buckton is a small, quaint town. Jack and Molly are expecting a warm welcome, but instead they are met with distrust. Soon they discover that Buckton is a town with deep secrets, and before they know it, the two become the lead suspects in a rash of brutal murders....
Prowlers - by Christopher Golden
April 3, 2001
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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When nineteen-year-old Jack Dwyer's best friend Artie is murdered, he is devastated. But his world is truly turned upside down when Artie emerges from the Ghostlands to bring him a warning.
With his dead friend's guidance and the help of the one person who doesn't think he's insane, Jack learns of the existence of the Prowlers. Under bold new leader Owen Tanzer, the Prowlers, already eight packs strong, have united. They move from city to city, preying on humans until they are close to being exposed, then they move on. And unlike werewolves of legend, they aren't human beings whom the moon transform into wolves... they are savage beasts masquerading as humans.
Jack wants revenge. But even as he hunts the Prowlers, he marks himself - and all of his loved ones - as prey.
Maximum Ride: The Final Warning - James Patterson
March 17, 2008 Little, Brown and Company US
Finished July 2009
Description
Hunted all their lives, they've had to fight the life-threatening and belief-defying battles pitting their strangth against the fearsome force of their shadowy enemies. But as their predators evolved, their unique ablilty to fly is no longer enough to save them. With their genes mutating to astonishing effect, the flock astablishes a new set of skills to unleash as they strive for survival. But just as they struggle to get to grips with these physical changes, emotionally they face new challenges too: life on the fringe of society can be a lonely existence.
Driven to the wastelands of Antarctica, each day brings a new threat for the flock. Danger is never far away and while fighting to save their own skin, they have a new mission to undertake - one with devastating global consequences.
Beauty - by Robin McKinley
July 14, 2005
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
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Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.
When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"
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Lord of Misrule - by Rachel Caine