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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Slaughterhouse is an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness, and they're about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations, literally. When a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed. Soon a new pecking order will be established as pupils, teachers and the school matron...
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"First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words--and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called "The Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps." -- Back cover.
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Katherine Gordy, who goes by the nickname Kit, starts down a dark path after the death of her father. With a misdemeanor arrest and two school suspensions in her past, no one is willing to believe in her innocence when she's accused of arson. Her mother Ginny and step-father Dave don't know what to do with her. When a member of a mysterious, exclusive academy, the Blackwood Boarding School, approaches the family with a reeducation plan, Ginny accepts...
8) Desert dark
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At Desert Mountain Academy, sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley begins a punishing routine to become an undercover CIA agent, but when a double-agent is reported on campus, she is the top suspect.
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At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
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"Youthful chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve dastardly crimes -- but this time, she leaves behind her beloved English countryside, and takes her sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools!"--
"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York...
11) United we spy
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293 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Cammie Morgan and her friends finally know why the terrorist organization called the Circle of Cavan has been hunting her. Now the spy girls and Zach must track down the Circle's elite members to stop them before they implement a master plan that will change Cammie, and her country, forever"--
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Wayward children volume 2
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"Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children ... Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter -- polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. Jillian was her father's perfect daughter -- adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really...
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Princess DisGrace volume 1
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224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Paired with a clumsy, dirty unicorn, a princess who is neither elegant nor graceful must prove herself at Tall Towers Princess Academy.
14) Not my blood
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345 pages ; 24 cm.
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It's 1933 London and Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands receives a phone call from a boy saying he is his nephew, a teacher at his school has been murdered and he is responsible. Joe gets assigned to the case and finds that over the history of the school a large number of boys from wealthy families have disappeared and none of the families have followed up on their son's whereabouts.
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Children of the red king volume 8
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Charlie and the Children of the Red King must call upon all of their strength to defeat the darkness and finally learn the fate of Charlie's family, the evil intentions of the Bloors, what has become of Septimus Bloor's will, and the destiny of the Red King's heirs.
17) Soul murder
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When Maurice Tyson, housemaster at a top boys' boarding school in Ireland, is found with his throat slit, Superintendent Denis Lennon and Sergeant Molly Power, struggle to uncover any probable motive for the brutal killing. Was it revenge? A kidnap attempt gone wrong? Or is there a connection to a former student who killed himself barely a year ago? Then a boy mysteriously disappears.--From publisher's description.
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Children of the red king volume 7
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Magically-gifted Charlie Bone, accompanied by his best friend's dog, Runner Bean, comes to the rescue when the enchanter Count Harken takes revenge on the Red King's heirs by kidnapping and imprisoning Charlie's ancestors in the dark, forbidding land of Badlock.
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194 pages ; 21 cm
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A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the Headmaster sends cryptic messages, begging his new charge to confess. As the new boy learns to survive on the edges of this impolite society, he starts to unravel a mystery at the school's dark heart. And that's when the corpses start...
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Children of the red king volume 5
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xx, 433 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
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When an ancient enchanter is released from the grounds of Bloor's Academy, threatening both of Charlie Bone's parents, the only way Charlie and his friends can defeat him is by finding the red king himself.
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