Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Missing persons
- Author:Charbonneau, JoelleSummary:
- Author:Peter RobinsonSummary:
While recuperating from the events ofAftermathon a Greek island, Inspector Alan Banks reads that the bones of his childhood friend, Graham Marshall, have been dug up in a field not far away from the road where he disappeared more than...
- Author:Pullman, PhilipSummary:
Here is the highly anticipated second installment of Philip Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy, begun with the critically acclaimed "The golden compass". Lyra and Will, her newfound friend, tumble separately into the strange...
- Author:Raabe, MelanieSummary:
He calls himself your husband. But you're the only one who knows the truth. Several years ago, your husband, and the father of your young son, disappeared. Since then, you've dreamt of his return; railed against him for...
- Author:Reardon, C.S.Summary:
Grief cannot abide a mystery. No one understands that better than the Clarey family of Halifax. In 1937, the Clareys are a close and loving family until their lives are transformed the night Edie, their wilful daughter and sister,...
- Author:Legault, StephenSummary:
Silas Pearson is looking for answers. It's been more than three years since his wife, Penelope de Silva, disappeared while working on a conservation project in Utah's red rock wilderness. Law enforcement authorities have given up hope...
- Author:Bolaño, RobertoSummary:
This wildly inventive novel tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe.
- Author:WINTON, TimSummary:
Fred Scully can't wait to see his wife and daughter. He's got them all worked out. He's sweated on this reunion. The doors hiss open. Scully's life falls apart.
- Author:Cook, Thomas H.Summary:
Cook's novel begins after the 9/11 attacks, when researcher Paul Crane sits down to interview elderly New York City resident Thomas Danforth. But Thomas' thoughts drift to a different era, when a conspiracy to kill Hitler led...
- Author:Otte, KristenSummary:
On a quest for truth, one girl will find more than she bargained for... Sixteen-year-old Rachel Brandt is excited about her six-month anniversary with her boyfriend, Brent, getting her driver's license, and competing for a district...
- Author:Otte, KristenSummary:
On a quest for truth, one girl will find more than she bargained for. Sixteen-year-old Rachel Brandt is excited about her six-month anniversary with her boyfriend Brent, getting her driver's license and competing for a district...
- Author:Krilanovich, GraceSummary:
A band of hobo vampire junkies roam the Pacific Northwest of the 1990s as a girl with drug-induced ESP searches for her missing foster sister.
- Author:Hime, James L.Summary:
Sisy Fletcher, the preacher's daughter, disappeared about ten years ago on the night of the rodeo dance in Washington County, Texas. But now her body has been found by men drilling for oil in a field outside of town. Sheriff Dewey...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no...
- Author:Keyes, MarianSummary:
Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now...
- Author:Donohue, KeithSummary:
When Kay fears someone is following her home, she takes shelter inside a toy shop and is suddenly transformed into a puppet. So begins a dual odyssey of a husband determined to find his wife and of a woman trapped in a magical world...
- Author:WHITNELL, BarbaraSummary:
When Sarah Kendall catches a glimpse of Simon on the TV news bulletin, she's convinced her brother - reported killed six months ago - is still alive. But why is he hiding, and who can she call on to help?
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the SUretE du QuEbec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small...
- Author:Landry, JaniceSummary:
Halifax author and journalist Janice Landry returns to her roots, as she revisits high-profile Canadian police investigations she covered as a novice television reporter during the 1980s and 1990s. One story involves the unsolved murder...
- Author:Tranter, KirstenSummary:
What has happened to Ingrid? Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune and leaves Australia, and her friends, and Ralph who loves her, to marry Gil Grey and set up home amid the New York art world. There she becomes the stepmother to Gil...