Carmen Espinoza is finally leaving her mother today, but before she goes, she needs one more thing-the "before" photo. The photo is the only evidence that her family was once normal, happy, and together. Before her brother died. Beginning her senior year as a foreign exchange student in Oaxaca, Mexico, Carmen believes her normal life is about to begin, but when she sees her dead brother during the Day of the Dead festivities, she soon discovers that leaving your past behind is not as simple as packing a bag.

The Exquisite and Immaculate Grace of Carmen Espinoza

Children's Books

Taylor, Rebecca

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ophelia House

When I was twelve, my mother disappeared. I was the first person to never find her. I'm sixteen now and she has never been found, alive or dead. I'm not the girl I should have been. When Charlotte Stevens, bright but failing, is sent to stay at her mother's childhood home in Somerset England her life is changed forever. While exploring the lavish family manor, Gaersum Aern, Charlotte discovers a stone puzzle box that contains a pentagram necklace and a note from her mother-clues to her family's strange past and her mother's disappearance. Charlotte must try to solve the puzzle box, decipher her mother's old journals, and figure out who is working to derail her efforts-and why. The family manor contains many secrets and hidden histories, keys to the elegant mystery Charlotte called mom and hopefully, a trail to finding her.

Ascendant

Literature & Fiction

Literary

As Above, So Below As the direct descendant of Francis Bacon (aka Shakespeare) Charlotte is the next Ascendant. She is destined to teach mankind the secret mysteries of alchemy. If only she knew what those were. With her father's stone box, and her mother's first key, Charlotte will quest around the world to solve the puzzle and reveal its secret. Unless Emerick gets her first.

Midheaven

Ninety-two days. That’s all that’s left. Just ninety-two days and Ruth Robinson, calculus genius, will stand with her arms raised in a triumphant V as the valedictorian of Roosevelt High. With her early admit to Princeton’s Neuroscience program burning a hole in her pocket, Ruth can hardly wait to show her fellow teenage troglodytes that while she didn’t have followers, friends, or “times” in basements, she was the one ending up on top. All she needs to do is white knuckle her way through this waiting place last semester and then, finally, she’ll be on her way. Except, the first day back from winter break, Porter Creed shows up. Porter is a special education transfer—Affective Needs. And just like all the other desk flippers and chair throwers in the affective needs classroom, Porter has some major emotional problems. But when Porter strolls onto Ruth’s home turf, Advanced Calculus, and disrupts her axis by being both gorgeous and the only person better at math than her—Ruth begins to realize that maybe life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.

Affective Needs

Teen & Young Adult

The highly anticipated final book in the Ascendant Trilogy by award winning author, Rebecca TaylorCharlotte barely escaped Emerick's underground Paris compound with her life and her friends, but to do it, it cost her the puzzle and the keys--her only hope of ever freeing her mother from Lilith's possession. Back at Gaersum Aern, Charlotte has only one advantage left, she alone knows the true location of the next key. She sets out once again on her international quest to fulfill her duty as the new Ascendant, but if she is going to save herself and those she loves, she needs to stay one step ahead of the most powerful, and dangerous, man on the planet--Britain's new Prime Minister, Emerick Wriothesley. Praise for Ascendant"An emotionally robust, intellectually vibrant start to a new trilogy." --Kirkus Reviews"I'm surprisingly dumbstruck by this brilliant story." --Reader Review"Wow, what a page turner! This book really sucked me in." --Reader Review"I hid the book so I could finish reading it...didn't want to put it down."--Reader ReviewPraise for Midheaven"Rebecca Taylor truly has a refreshing gift for creative writing." --Reader Review"A great follow up to the first book! Super suspenseful and filled with anticipation." --Reader Review"Loved this! Can't wait to read the next one!" --Reader Review

Descendant (Ascendant Trilogy)

Once Upon a Lie

Genre Fiction

After a childhood spent dreaming of escape from rural squalor, Hollis Dixon is at long last ready to begin a better life at a prominent east coast university. When an unexpected pregnancy and tragic death make him a single father, Hollis fears his hardships may prove inescapable. Set against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in the late-twentieth, century this coming of middle-age novel about making a living and missing a life is a haunting portrait of an American family in crisis. Rebecca Burgess has crafted a stunning debut offering an unflinching view from the material-era trenches.

A Better Life

Burgess, Rebecca

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