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August Buzzworthy Books Teen
OBD YA Mysteries - YOUTH
Top Picks for Grades 6-8
WPL Best of Teen Fiction 2025
OBD YA Mysteries - YOUTH
Top Picks for Grades 6-8
WPL Best of Teen Fiction 2025
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A group of small-town teens try to solve a supernatural murder mystery involving an old forgotten poem, legends from the past, and a blood curse.
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One Step Beyond volume 10
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Revenge befalls a sadistic colonel after the death of a beloved soldier's dog.
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The first three books in the classic action series-now in development as a major motion picture. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, no sniper was more ruthless than Mack Bolan. After twelve years in-country, with ninety-five confirmed kills, the Special Forces sergeant returns to the United States only to find that his father has gone berserk, slaughtering his family before taking his own life. But Bolan knows his old man was no killer: He was under...
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Readers of Lone Wolf & Cub came to know a samurai of such high honor that he was not only able to perform but enjoyed and, in fact, learned from basic daily tasks. Cutting wood, cooking food. That wasn't something a samurai did back in feudal Japan. These same human elements are apparent in Kubikiri Asa, the main character in Samurai Executioner. He's a man of the people, though his job is to separate many of those same people from their heads. In...
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Highlander volume 14
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Paul, Duncan's old Immortal friend, disappears and Anne and Joe are framed for crimes. MacLeod suspects his old enemy Kalas is responsible.
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Conspiracy Show volume 3
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In this re-examination of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Richard looks into what really happened.
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"To kill Akari, Menou scours the outer reaches of the West in search of a legendary blade that turns all it touches into salt. There, she stumbles across Sahara, a monk, who has history with the young Executioner and begs her to take her life for reasons unknown. Meanwhile, one of the Four Major Human Errors begins to unfold in the undeveloped regions of the East and slowly inches toward them, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake..."-- Provided...
11) The Luminaries
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"Winnie Wednesday, an outcast from the Luminaries, is determined to restore her family's good name by taking the deadly hunter trials on her sixteenth birthday, but when she turns to her former best friend Jay Friday for help, they discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for"-- Provided by publisher.
12) Witchlight
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Fated to restore balance to the land's magic, Safi and Iseult seek the final Origin Well and assemble their allies to fight against the Raider King's army.
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The objective of this book is to provide future entrepreneurs in start-up companies, medium-sized enterprises, and corporations with knowledge and a set of tools that they can immediately use to develop their entrepreneurial mindset. The book has a clear focus on the needs of engineers; it covers business cases, experiences from entrepreneurs, and examples from industry to optimize the learning benefit.
14) Bloodwitch
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Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling young adult epic fantasy Witchlands series continues with the story of the Bloodwitch Aeduan.
The Bloodwitch Aeduan and the Threadwitch Iseult race for safety as the Raider King's attempts to subdue the Witchlands gain momentum. Now his forces sow terror in the mountains, slaughtering innocents. Despite differing goals, Aeduan and Iseult have grown to trust each other in the fight
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2024 Summer Reading: Parlor (Investigative Mysteries)
And the Winner Is.... - Adult
APL 2024 Staff Favorites
And the Winner Is.... - Adult
APL 2024 Staff Favorites
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Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die - he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women - a mother, a sister, a homicide detective - we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the...
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Classics - St. Charles Public Library
Father's Day SHPL
OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
Road Trip Listens SHPL
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OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
Road Trip Listens SHPL
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A complex and profound book, The Tale of Two Cities explores the consequences of tyranny, fate and self-sacrifice. With much of the narrative played out in Paris, during the French Revolution Dickens examines the interplay between personal action, and the flow of history. Dr Manette, having travelled to Paris finds himself imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 brutal years, unable to see his kind and loving daughter Lucy. On his eventual return to London...
17) The last mile
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Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...
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"With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making...
19) Arkangel
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"The execution of a Vatican archivist within the shadow of the Kremlin exposes a conspiracy going back three centuries--to the bloody era of the Russian Tsars. Before his murder, he manages to dispatch a coded message, a warning of a terrifying threat, one tied to a secret buried within the Golden Library of Tsars, a vast and treasured archive that had vanished into history. As combative forces race for the truth behind this death and alarming discovery,...
20) Gone again
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Jack Swyteck novel volume 12
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Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager's disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi's clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle's execution, Sashi's mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news:...










