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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town's divisive racism better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Naomi and Wash dare to defy the rules, and the New London school explosion serves as a ticking time bomb in the background. Can their love survive both prejudice and...
2) Save me
Author
Language
English
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Description
Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom in her daughter Melly's school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who's been bullying her daughter. Her fears come true when the bullying begins, sending Melly to the bathroom in tears. Just as Rose is about to follow after her daughter, a massive explosion goes off in the kitchen, sending the room into chaos. Rose finds herself faced with the horrifying decision of whether or not to run to the bathroom...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Nell MacDermott is the politically ambitious granddaughter of a canny politician in Manhattan's silk stocking district, and her grandfather wants her to run for his old congressional seat. But there are rumors that Adam Cauliff, Nell's husband, has been involved in a real estate and construction scam, and until Nell gets to the bottom of this her political future will be clouded. When Adam and his assistant are killed in an explosion aboard his boat,...
4) Vixen
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
For the Southeast London police squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuous, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry--and the cops don't even know she exists.
Meanwhile, Inspector Roberts is helpless to stop the explosions and his subordinates aren't doing much better. Brant is consumed with an even-bigger-than-usual mean streak, and fast-rising...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the Coast Guard picks up a scientist claiming to be a survivor of a terrible accident at a research outpost, subsequent survivors reveal accounts of murder, oil-company trickery, Russian espionage, genetic experimentation and global warming.
7) Tr3s
Author
Series
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Language
Español
Description
Un mundo de pesadilla comienza a Kevin, un joven seminarista, cuando recibe una llamada telefn̤ica de un desconocido que le dirijan a confesar su pecado al mundo en tres minutos o ser volado en pedazos.
A nightmare world begins for Kevin, a young seminarian, when he receives a cell phone call from an unknown man directing him to confess his sin to the world in three minutes or be blown to bits.
Author
Series
Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A 60 kiloton nuclear explosion destroys the University of Central Florida and in it's wake are left doorways to another world. Physicists William Weaver and SEAL Command Master Chief Miller must find a way to close the hostile gates and stop the spead of evil aliens.
11) Quarantine
Author
Series
Alone (James Phelan) volume 3
Publisher
KTeen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the scant few weeks since an explosion decimated New York City, sixteen year old Jess has lived through unimaginable. Only two type of people are left: chasers, infected with a virus that turns them into bloodthirsty killing machines and those they hunt. Jess isn't waiting to be a victim. There's a collective of survivors in the city. Once he's located them, they can find some way out of Manhattan and Jesse can get help for those he's guiltily...
12) Under pressure
Author
Series
Dr Lucas Page novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page in Robert Pobi's Under Pressure. On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee-yet the damage to the building itself was minimal. An...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In 2082, a catastrophic explosion rocks the dedication ceremony of the new United Nations [building] in New York City. Security Director Julia Moro is on the job, chasing after the misogynistic leader of Patria, a long-disbanded international terrorist organization now being whispered about again on the streets. This dangerous, shadowy figure has been linked to several bombing attempts and vicious attacks on women, including the Women of Peace, an...
14) The human kaboom
Author
Series
Tales from the multiverse volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of six stories, each one featuring an explosion of some sort"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town's divisive racism better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Naomi and Wash dare to defy the rules, and the New London school explosion serves as a ticking time bomb in the background. Can their love survive both prejudice and...
17) Bad Blood
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of feet below Manhattan, a treacherous tunnel maze is inhabited by the sandhogs, teams of workers who are rebuilding New York City's deteriorating water supply system. A catastrophic explosion rips through Water Tunnel #3, sending shock waves that are felt throughout the city. The blast sends Alex's case in a shattering new direction -- and pulls her and detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace underground.
18) Devil's Gate
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 9
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
The “spine-tingling adventures” (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala continue as the NUMA® crew teams up with a beautiful Russian agent in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
NUMA Special Assignment Team leader Kurt Austin, and his right-hand man, Joe Zavala, are looking forward to a submersible race to test out their prototype Barracuda, in an effort to enjoy their own special...
NUMA Special Assignment Team leader Kurt Austin, and his right-hand man, Joe Zavala, are looking forward to a submersible race to test out their prototype Barracuda, in an effort to enjoy their own special...
19) Island of time
Author
Series
Island of time volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""There was no murder . . . Because they never existed." The Geneva branch of Interpol - the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts - is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it. But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions...
20) The noise
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse... After this mysterious explosion which...