Graham Halstead
1) Liar's beach
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"Michael Linden--or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals--doesn't belong in wealthy, storied Martha's Vineyard. But when his roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his massive beachfront home, August House, Linden tries his best to fit in. Linden wouldn't call it lying, exactly. Though it turns out August House is full of liars. Then someone is found unconscious in Jasper's pool, and everyone has something to hide--Jasper,...
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"Eight years ago, Ethan and Rebecca met, two troublemaking kids sharing secrets and first kisses in a tree house, until Ethan's mom returned to take him away. Each and every visit, his only goodbye was a flower on Rebecca's windowsill. Four years ago, Ethan left for the last time to take care of his mother, who has struggled with addiction his whole life. Two years ago, Rebecca was in a car accident that killed her father. She's been learning to navigate...
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"The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private...
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"A man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him. Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son. These are some of the last words Jack Givins's father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could. Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems...
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"Told through interview with more than 150 people, including bands, producers, managers and fans, a music journalist offers an authoritative, impassioned and occasionally absurd account of the turn-of-the-millennium emo subculture that took over the American music scene from 1999 to 2008"--
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If Charlie and Sage are meant to be, why can't Sage stop kissing Charlie's brother? And why can't Charlie stop thinking about kissing the new boy at school? Everyone at the Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be. Even though Charlie seems to have a new girlfriend every month, and Sage has never had a real relationship, their friends and family all know it's just a matter of time until they realize that they...
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For going on two decades, Scientific American's "Ask the Experts" column has been answering reader questions on all fields of science. We've taken your questions from the basic to the esoteric and reached out to top scientists, professors, and researchers to find out why the sky is blue or whether we really only use 10 percent of our brains.
Now, we've combed through our archives and have compiled some of the most interesting questions (and answers)...
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In this installment of the Ask the Experts series, Chemistry, our professors, scientists, and researchers tackle reader questions about the substances that compose all matter, their properties, and how they interact and change. Queries range from elementary questions, such as why some elements change color over a flame, to how chemistry works in everyday life, to how certain substances affect the body and more.
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"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...
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Clark thought he knew what grief was. Addie thought she understood the dangers of the Tempest Sea. They couldn't have been more wrong. When their only chance at survival lands them on opposite ends of an island that shouldn't exist, they will both be forced to contend with the consequences of their latest mistakes-and each other's. Will they be able to keep the promises they made one another, even as loss and circumstance morphs them into the very...
13) The Ever Falls
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The epic conclusion to The World Apart Series. Addie and Clark have just defeated one evil, only to have another closer to home than they thought possible. They thought they were finally safe, but Spectrum has been waiting for them. And this time, there are more lives at stake than anyone could've imagined. Will they be able to work together to stop the spread of RyLand's forces? Or will they have to sacrifice everyone they've ever loved for the sake...
14) The Tempest Sea
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A rescue mission turns into a fight against a force more powerful than they could have imagined. With the amulet still stuck around her neck, Addie must outwit her powerful captors who will do anything to get to the power held within the ancient artifact. If they find out she doesn't know how to use it, she's dead. Meanwhile, Clark and a ragtag team of Addie's friends dive into a strange and dangerous world as they pursue those who took her. High-tech...
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"Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart"--
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Alisa's mother is invited to the far-off planet Dibala, renowned throughout the galaxy for its delicious popcorn. Zdob, a local businessman and head of the popcorn corporation, has invited Mrs. Salazar, an architect, to design a hangar for his new, super-advanced robots. But Zdob's plans are suddenly thwarted by the local residents, who take the hated businessman hostage along with Alisa's mother. Alisa has to go to Dibala to save her.
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Alisa Salazar has a million things to do: friends to meet up with, Duper to take for a walk - even her dad has asked her to accompany him to an important dinner party... What a shame cloning is forbidden on Earth! How great it would be if she could send a couple of clones in her place. Then a device for making clones unexpectedly ends up in Alisa's hands. Now Alisa herself is in terrible danger.
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Poly-R, the Salazar's house robot, has gone crazy - he keeps chasing Duper round the house saying over and over again: "Perfection! Perfection!" It turns out that the culprit is a formula hidden in Poly-R's firmware, written by the cybernetics genius Phillip Soleko himself. The only way to fix Poly-R is to work out the secret formula. Erik Schroedinger and Alisa Salazar set off on a dangerous journey to a distant asteroid.
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In his laboratory, the mysterious Professor Viktimok is doing dangerous experiments on brain implants, but even the Academy of Sciences does not believe his experiments will work. Alex Taylor, who is angry with Alisa because she has been taunting him, wants to use a "magic" implant to acquire the ability to speak eloquently. Together with Duper the Truenox, Alex sets off for Doctor Viktimok's secret laboratory. However, turning Alex into a "super-smart"...
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Erik Schroedinger just cannot learn to tell jokes. However hard he tries, his friends never laugh. Even the book by Ridik, humor professor extraordinaire, doesn't help. But what wouldn't you do to make your friends happy? Erik decides to sign up for lessons with Ridik, but he has no idea how difficult the path to real humor can be.