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Go Ask Alice
Alice is a young teen who goes from dating her crush Roger
to the world of drugs. When she (12) moves to a new town
Alice ends up meeting the wrong crowd. She smokes pot
her drink is spiked with LSD. After this Alice goes through
hard times dealing with her drug addictions. At the young
age of 13 she is addicted to various drugs. Her diary tells us
about her struggle to live a normal life again.
Dick Francis
The Danger
Kidnapping is Andrew Douglas's business: they take them,
he finds them. But it isn't so simple when Alessia Cenci,
golden-girl jockey, disappears, followed by the young child
of a derby winner and the senior steward of the Jockey
Club. From Italy to England to Washington, D.C., Andrew’s
caseload is suddenly, violently overflowing. And he must
fight triply hard to keep his own name off the growing list of
victims.
Dick Francis
The Edge
"BEWARE. MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY
SEEM." So proclaims the ad for the Great Transcontinental
Mystery Race, that promises not only the opportunity to race
a horse on some of the world's great courses but something
more: an intriguing mystery to be enacted on board, which
passengers will be invited to solve. But Julius Apollo Filmer,
one of the most ruthless operators of the racing underworld,
has his own plans. For Tor Kelsey, undercover security
agent, fiction is about to explode into a real nightmare and
bloody murder.
John Fowles
The Collector
Miranda, a beautiful young art student, is the object of
obsession here. She becomes the ultimate prize for the
psychopathic Frederick, the butterfly collector who has
watched her for years. Then one day, chloroform in his
pocket, he takes her to his cottage miles from no where.
What happens is both symbolic and all too real, beautiful
and sickening at once.
John Grisham
The Partner
They had watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally
grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady
street in a small town in Brazil; No evidence of the fortune
they thought he had stolen. He was thinner and his face had
been altered. Four years earlier Danilo had been Patrick
Lanigan, a young partner in a law firm. He had a pretty wife,
a new daughter, and a bright future. Then he died in a car
accident, but from a short distance away, Patrick watched
his own burial. Afterwards he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune
was stolen from his ex-law firm's offshore account. And
Patrick fled some more. But they found him.
Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train
What are the triggers that cause a seemingly average man
to murder? What is good and what is evil? What is normal?
Highsmith paints a picture that stretches the imagination to
answer these questions in ways we never thought possible.
She disturbs you. And she does it in a totally entertaining
way.
Ira Levin
A Kiss Before Dying
The book tells the shocking tale of a young man who will
stop at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants. For
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he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex
appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is
Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution
may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like
the kind of guy who could get away with murder. He does
not foresee how the consequences of his extreme deed will
catch up with him.
The Boys From Brazil
The story is about elderly Nazis in Brazil, led by the wicked
Mengele, seeking to create a new Hitler. They had cloned
94 genetic equivalents of Hitler, who were sent into the
world. But they need to murder to make their plans work. An
ageing Nazi hunter from Vienna realises what is going on
and decided to fight the creation of Hitlers at all costs.
Glitz
Psycho mama's boy Teddy Magyk hates the Miami cop who
put him away for raping a senior citizen -- but before he kills
him he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts. So
when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker falls from an Atlantic
City high-rise and Vincent shows up to investigate this
questionable death, Teddy thinks he's got his prey where he
wants him. But Vincent Mora doesn't forgive and forget, nor
does he die easily.
Letters from the Inside
In this novel, two Australian teenagers try to discover the
truth about each other and themselves. For pen pals Mandy
and Tracey the truth is not always easy to see. At the
beginning, it seems that Tracey's life is wonderful: She has
a loving family, two gorgeous boyfriends, and more money
than she can spend. Mandy, however, is lower-middle class
with a violent older brother. When Mandy discovers that
Tracey has been lying about where she goes to school, she
looks back over their entire correspondence and catches
other inconsistencies in Tracey's letters. She pushes Tracey
to reveal her true identity and is unprepared when what she
discovers is far more unbelievable than Tracey's lies had
been.
The Cement Garden
There's Julie, the eldest, a ripe and wilful beauty who's
almost a woman; there's Jack, the narrator, a boy
bewildered by his growing body and appetites; there's Sue,
bookish and ever-observant; and then there's Tom, the baby
of the family, who actually seems to get younger, regressing
as the days go by. These four form an uneasy family, slowly
learning to be self-sufficient in a derelict house that is soon
to be demolished.
But an intruder in the form of Julie's new asks too many
questions. How long have the four of them been alone? And
just what is buried under the crumbling pile of cement in the
basement?
The Innocent
The British and Americans built a secret tunnel under the
Soviet sector of Berlin in 1954 to gain access to the
Russians' communication system. 25-year-old Leonard
Marnham, a post office technician, is astonished to find
himself involved in a top-secret operation. At the same time
that he loses his political innocence, Leonard experiences
his sexual initiation in a clandestine affair with a German
divorcee five years his senior. As his two secret worlds
come together, events develop into a gruesome nightmare,
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Acting to save himself from a prison sentence, Leonard
performs an act of espionage with ironic consequences
down the years.
‘The Hanging’
Prove Yourself a Hero
16-year-old Jonathan Meredith really goes from the poor
victim to the victor in this book. Any Junior to Senior High
student would love this action and drama filled story.
Jonathan is kidnapped on his way home from school and
after three terrifying days is released only to find a sort of
hostility at home about the ransom money lost. He finds and
confronts his abductor and feels more confident about
himself and proves to be a hero.
A Midsummer Night’s Death
The book is about the mysterious death of Mr. Robinson, a
teacher of a boarding school. One student, Jonathan, was
the last one who saw him talking to Mr. Hugo, another
teacher. There is also a love story, not just between a man
and a woman, but between a student and his teacher.
Had Jonathan told the police what he had seen or had he
kept it a secret? Once the reader knows the answer to this
question, the love story between Jonathan and the girl who
had loved the dead Mr. Robinson gets more and more
interesting.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
An old man's diseased eye drives the narrator to murder.
But while the murderer can rid himself of the eye, he can't
silence the old man's heart.
Dead Man Walking
Prejean, a Catholic nun, has written a book against capital
punishment. This book is the result of her visits to two
death-row inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary where
she serves as a spiritual advisor. Although she documents
the inequalities of the judicial system that has condemned
these men, her main point is that if society is to inflict this
extreme punishment, it should, itself, be perfect. Needless to
say, it is not.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island," written by in 19th century is a timeless
story about life on the high seas with pirates, treasure,
murder, and treachery.
When young and naive Jim Hawkins is given a treasure map
from the mysterious old pirate, Billy Bones, adventure and
trouble are not far away. Soon Jim finds himself aboard a
ship with a villainous crew led by a cunning pirate, Long
John Silver. Greed and the lust for gold driving the pirates,
they have murder in mind when they reach Treasure Island.
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